In which we go to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and give you some pointers on how to visit an art museum. Seems easy enough, but there are ways to maximize your experience. What are your museum tricks...

Discover Tito's Bunker in Bosnia, a Cold War relic transformed into a vibrant art museum.

Discover Tito's Bunker in Bosnia, a Cold War relic transformed into a vibrant art museum.<br/>

In which we explore our neighboring city of Chicago, film with two local artists, and see more art in one day than is probably advisable. Featuring: Nuevo Leon Bakery Dusek's XOCO Chicago Cultural Center Museum of Contemporary Art...

A pair of glasses on an art gallery floor. Art? Or prank? What about a urinal? We compare recent pranks in art museums to art that uses some of the same strategies.

What is Art Therapy? How can you use aspects of it in your next art encounter? We explore these questions at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art with art therapist Lauren Daugherty.

What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike...

For sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, the ocean is more than a muse -- it's an exhibition space and museum. Taylor creates sculptures of human forms and mundane life on land and sinks them to the ocean floor, where they are subsumed by the...

This week we meet with experimental musicians Mark Stewart and Julia Wolfe at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, an amazing contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. They give us the challenge to FIND YOUR...

In which we go to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and give you some pointers on how to visit an art museum. Seems easy enough, but there are ways to maximize your experience. What are your museum tricks...

Author, historian and founder and president of the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, Robert M. Edsel sits down with president and CEO of The National WWII Museum, Nick Mueller, to discuss his newest book 'Saving...

Join Emily Kodama as she explores this sumptuous 'Nude' by Nikolai Fechin from the Important Russian Art sale on 25 November 2013. The work was previously in the collection of Hollywood actor George Montgomery and is being sold to...

Host Jay Ellis explores the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, British Columbia. An awe-inspiring structure, built to defy the elements and protect the priceless artworks from wind, snow, and flooding. Despite function being the main...

MOT 1948: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: WS Fine Arts Museum. WS People walking in gallery w/ statue FG, paintings in room BG. People looking at Rembrandt portrait painting of man with long beard. CU Metal tag...

This week we answer your questions from our art hotline* and talk about the distinction between art and craft (if any), art world pretension, the proliferation of images, imposter syndrome, and more.

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?

The powerful and privileged have hoarded precious artifacts in museums for centuries, and it's only recently that these treasures were made available to the rest of us. What purpose did museums serve? And why does every city have one today?

In this episode of Crash Course Art History, we’ll learn why museums are so much more than just collections of interesting and pretty objects. Their legacy includes everything from violence to theft, to, oddly enough, mermaid hands.

Host Sarah Urist Green shares 40 reflections about art, gathered in the course of a career in art, art history, curating, and making videos about all of the above.

Do you question your ability to talk about art in a coherent way? Here are tips for how to sound like you understand art, even if you've never taken a class or set foot in a museum.

It's tax season in the United States, and the art market is one of the many ways rich people game the system to save billions of dollars in taxes each year. Here's how it's done.

Can you separate the art from the artist? This one's In honor of all the art you used to love, and it's creators who ruined it by behaving badly. We talk Picasso, Nanette, cats out of bags, and much more.

Join us as we take a detailed look into Detroit's past, its vibrant present, and the diverse experiences it offers for visitors of all interests. Whether you're a history buff, an art lover, a car enthusiast, or a foodie, Detroit has...

Are you overwhelmed by the plethora of art and art-related activities going on in the world? We’re here to help! Here are some ideas for how to learn about what’s going on in the world of contemporary art.