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Death, Personified (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)! | PBS Digital Studios
Death as a character reveals how we process one of life’s greatest mysteries, and there’s a lot more breadth to how the grim reaper is depicted than you might think. It's Lit! is part of THE GREAT AMERICAN READ, a eight-part series that...
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Declare your cause. | Allison Smith | The Art Assignment
Today we visit artist Allison Smith in her Oakland, California studio. Her work focuses on historical reenactment and how the past influences the present -- and now she wants to know what YOU are fighting for. Sarah discusses how there...
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Art Assignment Marathon | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we gathered some friends and challenged ourselves to an art assignment marathon - how many assignments can we complete in a day?
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Can explosions work in space?
The most exciting SciFi movies have tons of space explosions. But how effective would explosions be in outer space with no atmosphere to carry the blast wave? Could a hypothetical explosion hurt you in space?
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Art Trip: Venice Biennale | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Behold the 2017 Venice Biennale. Called the "olympics of the art world," the exhibition invades historic (and tourist clogged) Venice, Italy, every two years, and has since 1895. Contemporary art abounds, with installations and...
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Art Trip: Tijuana | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
On this international art trip, we travel to Tijuana to meet with Ghana Think Tank and Torolab, explore the city, and visit artist Hugo Crosthwaite's studio.
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Art Trip: Houston | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We take an art pilgrimage to Houston, Texas, and visit the likes of the Rothko Chapel, James Turrell's Twilight Epiphany, the Menil Collection, and Project Row Houses, among others. Come with us we feast upon Houston's many cultural...
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When Art Breaks the Law
This week Sarah breaks down why The Art Assignment sign-off cannot be "Please Don't Break the Law," and discusses artists Ai Weiwei and Pussy Riot who have broken the law for good reasons. What should our sign off be?
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Embarrassing Object Empathy | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we share some of your excellent responses to two assignments -- Geof Oppenheimer's Embarrassing Object and Diana Shpungin's Object Empathy.
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Draw a Psychological Landscape - Responses | The Art Assignment
In which we feature some of the best and most interesting responses to Robyn O'Neil's Art Assignment to draw a psychological landscape.
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Public Art Study: Fred Wilson's E Pluribus Unum | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
What is public art? Who funds it, owns it, and shapes it? Who does it serve? And why is it important? We try to answer some of these questions by looking at an example of public art that never came to be - Fred Wilson’s E Pluribus Unum.
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Fear of GhostWriting (Feat. Lindsay Ellis) | PBS Digital Studios
You might being asking yourself-- Why do ghostwriters even exist? Isn’t that cheating? Isn’t literature supposed to be the result of one person’s agonizing need to create? Aren’t books supposed to be the blood, sweat, and tears of the...
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Art Trip: Indianapolis | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We've spent quite a bit of time exploring art in other people's cities, so we figured it was time to come back home and try being tourists in our own town.
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Art Happens at VidCon | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we report to you from VidCon! We asked some members of the Art Assignment community to share their experience of participating in an art exchange and making a Lost Childhood Object. Here's what they said. Many thanks to...
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Draw a Psychological Landscape | Robyn O'Neil | The Art Assignment
In which Los Angeles-based artist Robyn O'Neil challenges you to draw a psychological landscape.
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Under the Influence Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Peggy Noland, Garry Noland, and Sarah Urist Green discuss some of their favorite responses to the Under the Influence assignment.
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Use video for an expanded moment. | The Art Assignment | Jan Tichy
This week we meet Jan Tichy, a Chicago-based artist who gives us the assignment to create an Expanded Moment using video. We also discuss how this assignment is a play on THE DECISIVE MOMENT by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who...
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Art Cooking: Bone Meal | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 - 1978) was one of the most influential artists of his generation, and was also the brainchild behind the infamous BONE MEAL in 1971 at the artist-run Food restaurant in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. He...
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Art is Pretentious* | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
*and other things I learned about art from the internet.
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Notes from New Orleans | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We visited New Orleans for the Prospect.3 exhibition and saw some fantastic art by Carrie Mae Weems, Camille Henrot, Shigeru Ban, Kerry James Marshall, and Tavares Strachan. Let's talk about it!
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Art Made in Adversity
Artist and educator Allison Smith shares her thoughts and library of books about art made in adverse circumstances. Featured are Vladimir Arkhipov's project Home-Made, archiving Russian artifacts made during Perestroika, and Trench Art,...
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How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing (Feat. Lindsay Ellis and Dr. Z)
Although we are currently living through a pandemic that has disrupted our lives and will shape the course of humanity, pandemics have been around since the dawn of civilization, as have stories about fictional pandemics. So now seems...
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Facilitate an Encounter / Encuentro | Dignicraft | The Art Assignment
The Art Assignment visits artist collective Dignicraft during their residency at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Omar Foglio, José Luis Figueroa, and Paola Rodriguez give us the assignment to...
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Use creativity to transform a discarded object. | Brandan Odums | The Art Assignment
The Art Assignment continues its journey through New Orleans with Brandan "BMike" Odums, the mastermind behind "ExhibitBE", a collaborative street art exhibition that transformed an unoccupied apartment building and gave it new life. Now...