The Art Assignment
Art Trip: Twin Cities | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
In which we explore a few of Minnesota's many fantastic art offerings. Let's take a trip through the Twin Cities! Featuring the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Soo Visual Art Center, Soap Factory, Law...
Atomi
HSC Visual Arts - The Renaissance
In this HSC Visual Arts video, we take you through the Renaissance movement starting with its origins then moving on to its characteristics and finishing with some of the big names of the movement. To watch more videos, head to our...
The Art Assignment
Create an embarrassing object. | Geof Oppenheimer | The Art Assignment
This assignment comes to you from Chicago based artist Geof Oppenheimer. Geof's work reflects personal experience and the social and political atmosphere they were created in, and he wants you to make an object that does the same. John...
TED Talks
Manuel Lima: A visual history of human knowledge
How does knowledge grow? Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches; other times it grows as a complex and interconnected network. Infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the thousand-year history of mapping data...
The Art Assignment
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...
The Art Assignment
Fierce Women of Art
This week we're talking about a group of supremely awesome and unapologetic artists who take risks, question art world practices, and also happen to be women -- we're calling them Fierce Women of Art. These are truly inspirational...
The Art Assignment
Explore a physical boundary. | Zarouhie Abdalian | The Art Assignment
We come to you from San Francisco's Exploratorium, where we met with artist-in-residence Zarouhie Abdalian. For her assignment, she wants you to focus on boundaries and the relationships between the spaces they separate. Sarah Green then...
Curated Video
Art Helps Teens Rise Above Bullying
All forms of art have the capacity to heal our mind and body -- even for victims of bullying. Thanks to an online movement called the You Will Rise Project, teens have an outlet to share original artwork capturing their personal...
The Art Assignment
Use the Present Perimeter to create art. | Jonathan Nesci | The Art Assignment
This week we meet with artist and designer Jonathan Nesci at the First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana. Jonathan uses systems of design to experiment with new materials and processes, and his assignment for you invites you to do...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Prince Olusegun Adeniyi - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Nigeria
Art teacher Olusegun Adeniyi, who teaches at Caleb British International School, Lagos, Nigeria, is not only renowned for bringing out the creative side of his fortunate students with two decades of nurturing new talent and creating...
ARTiculations
What Exactly is the Decorative Arts? | ARTiculations
What is the Decorative Arts and what are some of the problems with its definition? #withcaptions For more videos and blog posts - visit: http://www.articulations.co You can also follow me on: Instagram:...
Barbican Centre
United Visual Artists: Momentum
United Visual Artists invites you to experience 'Momentum', a carefully choreographed sequence of light, sound and movement, which responds to the unique space of The Curve. We speak to United Visual Artists' Matt Clark about the making...
Tate
Hélio Oiticica and the Tropicália Movement | TateShots
Discover the artist Hélio Oiticica – one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. The Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica challenged the traditional boundaries of art. He made the viewer an active participant in his work,...
The Great War
Capturing the Horrors - The Art of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special
The beginning of the 20th century saw rapid changes to the understanding of the fine arts and the First World War was a big catalyst for all the new art movements of Modernity like Cubism, Expressionism or Impressionism. Countless...
The Art Assignment
The Case For Mark Rothko | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Rectangles after rectangles after rectangles. Rothko was a truly prolific artist who found his groove painting hazy swatches of color and stuck with it until the very end. Maybe you've wondered what the point of it all is, or why he did...
The Art Assignment
The Case For Andy Warhol | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
You’ve heard his name. You’ve seen the Campbell’s Soup cans. You might know something about The Factory. But perhaps you’ve wondered why Andy Warhol gets so much attention or why his work even matters. What’s the deal with Warhol, and is...
The Art Assignment
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.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: What is abstract expressionism? - Sarah Rosenthal
If you visit a museum with a collection of modern and contemporary art, you're likely to see works that sometimes elicit the response, _My cat could make that, so how is it art?" But is it true? Could anyone create one of Jackson...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair
Physicist Werner Heisenberg said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first." As difficult as turbulence is to understand...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: A brief history of graffiti - Kelly Wall
Spray-painted subway cars, tagged bridges, mural-covered walls -- graffiti pops up boldly throughout our cities. And it turns out: it's nothing new. Graffiti has been around for thousands of years. And across that span of time, it's...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed A brief history of graffiti - Kelly Wall - MENA
Spray-painted subway cars, tagged bridges, mural-covered walls -- graffiti pops up boldly throughout our cities. And it turns out: it's nothing new. Graffiti has been around for thousands of years. And across that span of time, it's...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Making a TED-Ed Lesson: Animating zombies
What style of animation perfectly mimics the movement of zombies? Puppet animation allows for just the right amount of zombie-like stiff limbs and jerky stumbles. TED-Ed animators show how to bring a zombie to life through 2D puppet...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The origins of ballet - Jennifer Tortorello and Adrienne Westwood
Can you imagine a party where every movement and every visual detail were governed by a complex system of rules and procedures? For centuries, such rituals were commonplace for European nobility. And while they've gone out of fashion, we...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of math - James Earle
What's so special about Leonard da Vinci's Vitruvian Man? With arms outstretched, the man fills the irreconcilable spaces of a circle and a square -- symbolizing the Renaissance-era belief in the mutable nature of humankind. James Earle...