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Five Favorite Works of Art with Mike Rugnetta | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week Mike Rugnetta joins us to share five of his favorite works of art. Thanks, Mike!
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Bring a sound to life. | Jamal Cyrus | The Art Assignment
We meet up with artist Jamal Cyrus in his hometown of Houston, Texas, where we broach the topic of "postmodernism" and are challenged to summon an impossible sound.
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VidCon Makes a Rug | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
So many of you came out to make a rug with us at VidCon and we couldn't be more thrilled with how it turned out. Thanks so much to all who participated, and especially those who were kind enough to share their thoughts about the experience!
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Art Trip: London | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
For our second international art trip, we travel to London during Frieze Art Fair. We saw a lot of art! Almost too much.
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Explore a place you see every day. | Assaf Evron | The Art Assignment
We visit Assaf Evron in Chicago to consider how photography can help us see the familiar places we visit everyday differently.
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What's Your Problem? | Ghana Think Tank | The Art Assignment
This week we head to Tijuana, Mexico to talk with John Ewing, Carmen Montoya, and Christopher Robbins of Ghana Think Tank, who are working on a project to encourage communication at the U.S-Mexico border.
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Body in Place | Maria Gaspar | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with Maria Gaspar, an artist deeply invested in her community on the west side of Chicago. For her assignment, she asks you to engage with your community by adding yourself to the picture.
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Art Cooking: Futurist Meat Sculpture | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Exploring the intersection of art and food, we prepare two dishes from the 1930s devised by the pasta-hating Italian Futurists. BEHOLD: 1) MEAT SCULPTURE and 2) LIKE A CLOUD.
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How Fantasy Reflects our World (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Fantasy is a lens to explore what we as a society find important to our pasts, our presents, and future. Fantasy and science fiction often fall under the umbrella of “speculative fiction” - as...
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Do a surface test. | Kim Beck | The Art Assignment
You probably made rubbings in elementary school, but Kim Beck views rubbings as field recordings. She wants you to take a snapshot of a particular place by making a rubbing of the ground you're standing on.
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Vanessa Hill of BrainCraft | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We interview the remarkable Vanessa Hill, creator of BrainCraft, a production of PBS Digital Studios, which explores psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do.
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This phenomenon only happens in Hawaii . . . and Cuba & Nigeria & Indonesia & Peru & Sudan & Laos &…
There are apparently no shadows in these images. But they were taken during the brightest part of the day. There are only certain parts of the year and certain times of day when you can experience the subsolar point or Lahaina noon....
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The Case for Copying | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Sampling, appropriating, borrowing, stealing. Whatever you want to call it, artists have been copying since time immemorial. We look into the history of the practice, and share our theories of why it is done, and what it can offer us.
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Dune, The Most Important Sci Fi Series Ever? (Feat. Princess Weekes)
The planet is Arrakis. Also known as Dune. And y’all, it’s a mess. December of this year, we were supposed to see the arrival of director Denis Villeneuve’s interpretation of the 1965 novel Dune, which had been previously (and rather...
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Unraveling the Myth of Ernest Hemingway (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)
Here’s the problem with tackling Ernest Hemingway—Ernest Hemingway himself. While the iconic author is mostly known for his feats of literary prowess, from The Sun Also Rises to For Whom the Bell Tolls, to countless short stories—perhaps...
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Craziest eclipses in the solar system
A total solar eclipse passed across North America on August 21, 2017. Are there other total solar eclipses in the solar system?
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The Evolution of YA: Young Adult Fiction, Explained (Feat. Lindsay Ellis)
“Young Adult” fiction is a term whose meaning has varied wildly over the years. It can apply to coming of age tragedies or Serialized adventures of babysitters, or insert really dated twilight joke here. But where did this “young adult”...
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Art Cooking: Frida Kahlo | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We explore the recipes of artist Frida Kahlo, whose work celebrated Mexico's history, vivid colors, and it's FOOD. On the menu: 1) Chiles Stuffed with Cheese aka Chiles Rellenos 2) White Rice with Plantains 3) Nopales Salad 4) Tequila.
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Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later (feat. Lindsay Ellis and Princess Weekes)
Before women were asking “Am I a Carrie or a Samantha?”, they were asking “Am I a Jo or an Amy?” Before there was Edward vs Jacob, there was Laurie vs Professor Bhaer. And over the more than 150 years since Little Women was originally...
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The Art History of the Selfie | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Artists have been taking selfies since the dawn of photography. Cameras allowed people to capture their own image in a way that had never been possible in all of human history, and today most of us carry these magical devices in our...
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Ten Ideas That led to a Different Idea | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we try our hand at one of those top 10 lists we keep seeing on the Interwebs these days. Specifically, we're going to talk about ten ideas that led to the idea of this very show! We'll look at how ideas are cyclical - informed...
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The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables! (feat. Lindsay Ellis) | PBS Digital Studios
Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of history’s most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It’s Lit! we explore how Les Miserable became both a national and revolutionary...
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Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance (feat. Princess Weekes)
Novels like Passing by Nella Larsen, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and the poetry of Langston Hughes were all written during this period and have become important pieces of the American literary canon. Still, when...