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The Art Assignment
The Case for Abstraction | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that. It was shocking then and it still upsets and confounds...
The Art Assignment
Explore variations of white. | Odili Donald Odita | The Art Assignment
What is white? What is any color? Philadelphia-based abstract painter Odili Donald Odita talks with us about his work and offers us an assignment about color.
The Art Assignment
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.
The Art Assignment
The Case for Minimalism | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
You've probably seen a few cubes sitting in an art gallery and questioned why they were there. How could cubes be important? How did we get here? This is the case for Minimalism.
The Art Assignment
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.
The Art Assignment
The Case for Abstraction | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that. It was shocking then and it still upsets and confounds...
NPR
XYZT: Abstract Landscapes | Arts | NPR
One of a growing trend of interactive art exhibits, "XYZT: Abstract Landscapes" is a collection of ten digital pieces that mimic nature through projectors, motion sensors and LCD screens....
The Art Assignment
The Case for Jackson Pollock | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock and know of his infamous “drip paintings,” but what is it that you’re supposed to do when you look at his work today? Why did it cause shockwaves in 1947, and what does it mean now? We explore the life,...
The Art Assignment
Walk On It: Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
You walked on it, and we watched.
The Art Assignment
Draw a shape that represents you. | Tschabalala Self | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with Tschabalala Self, whose work explores ideas surrounding the black female body; and her assignment asks you to consider your own body as a symbol too.
The Art Assignment
The Case for Jackson Pollock | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
You’ve heard of Jackson Pollock and know of his infamous “drip paintings,” but what is it that you’re supposed to do when you look at his work today? Why did it cause shockwaves in 1947, and what does it mean now? We explore the life,...
Curated Video
Learn Midjourney For Your Future 6 Figure Career - 5 Money-Making Examples with Midjourney
In this video, we will encourage our entrepreneurial spirit using Midjourney and learn to make some money from it. We will explore some of the examples of possibilities of making money from Midjourney in the form of coloring books...
The Art Assignment
Whitescapes - Odili Donald Odita | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
What is white? What is any color? Philadelphia-based abstract painter Odili Donald Odita talks with us about his work and offers us an assignment about color. Your specific instructions: 1. Find a white object and place it next to...
World Science Festival
An Abstract Look At Evolution
We once shared the planet with Neanderthals and other human species. Some of our relatives may have had tools, language and culture. Why did we thrive while they perished? Join evolutionary biologists, geneticists and anthropologists as...
TED Talks
TED: How we can find ourselves in data | Giorgia Lupi
Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this charming talk, she shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing even the mundane details of our daily lives and transforming the abstract and...
National Geographic
What Makes Gum Chewy? | Ingredients With George Zaidan (Episode 5)
World Science Festival
Where Does Seeing Happen?
Do we see with our eyes or with our brain? After light bounces off an object and hits your retinas, how is it then transformed into an image within our thoughts? How do we abstract three-dimensional information from something that’s...
Tate
James Richards | Turner Prize Nominee 2014 | TateShots
James Richards, a Turner Prize 2014 nominee, talks about the diverse ways of image-making as well as the original sound compositions he uses in his work, during this film shot at the Wysing Art Centre, Cambridgeshire. “I feel it has more...
World Science Festival
Why We Prevailed: Evolution and the Battle for Dominance
We once shared the planet with Neanderthals and other human species. Some of our relatives may have had tools, language and culture. Why did we thrive while they perished? Join evolutionary biologists, geneticists and anthropologists as...
World Science Festival
Where did numbers come from?
Where did math come from? Which numbers arose first? Did math develop the same way across cultures? While the details are fuzzy, history shows that if people have ever needed to count something, they developed some form of mathematics....