In this episode of Crash Course Art History, we’ll keep digging into the myth of the Great Artist, with whether we can—or should—separate artists’ personal actions and beliefs from the art they create. Art historians are exploring new...

In this video, the hosts explore the famous Guggenheim Art Museum in Manhattan, NY, and discuss the concept of pop art and its iconic artists. They highlight artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Keith Haring, Barbara...

This video explores the world of pop art and culture, highlighting its importance in connecting people and celebrating everyday objects. It introduces key concepts such as interconnectedness and accessibility, emphasizing that pop art is...

This video explores the intersection of technology and art through the incorporation of iPods into sculptures and installations at the Scope Art Fair in New York City. Artists like Disney use a mix of household and high-end plastics to...

I've been reading a lot of art theory lately and this video is a product of that. I also have been inspired by the long videos of the Art Assignment.

Happy birthday to us! Welcome to the third year of The Art Assignment.

INSTRUCTIONS 1. CONJURE A STUDIO: REAL OR IMAGINARY - Where do you like to work? - What do you like to do? - If you could do it anywhere (or with anyone), where would it be? 2. MAKE IT HAPPEN - Take over, transform, build a space... -...

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.

In 1982 at the age of just 22 years old, Jean-Michel Basquiat would produce this painting. A powerful and dazzling image that mixes text, colour, symbolism and mark-making in a raw and uncensored explosion.



In a single...

Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as a sex symbol was all but over. Warhol would effectively immortalize Marilyn as the sex symbol of the 20th...

Yayoi Kusama lives in a psychiatric institution, which she entered voluntarily in 1977. She is now in her nineties and still works every single day. Known for her repeated dot patterns, her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a...

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...

The Art Assignment furthers their exploration of New Orleans to visit artist Bob Snead. He's the Executive Director of Press Street, an organization that promotes art and literature in the community through events, publications and arts...

In this video I break down Arthur Danto's belief that Art ended in the 1960's when he saw Andy Warhol's Brillo Boxes. He approaches the theory of art through classical philosophy and uses frameworks established by Plato and Hegel, among...

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...

Explore the art and life of Andy Warhol through the food he depicted as well as the food he actually ate. We work our way through the ultimate Andy Warhol tasting menu.

The Golden Age of Illustration flourished at the turn of the 20th Century, when artistic flair collided with new technology.

From 5 April, 70 canvases co-created by Andy Warhol and Basquiat are being presented at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, in what is being billed as the world's first Warhol/Basquiat four-handed retrospective of this magnitude.

Andy Warhol's iconic sage-blue background portrait of Marilyn Monroe is tipped to sell for a record-breaking $200 million at auction in the spring

A young Portuguese cast brings Warhol's encounters with the likes of American writer Truman Capote, actress Edie Sedgwick, art critic Clement Greenberg and musician Lou Reed to life.

The Het Loo Palace Museum in the Netherlands is hosting an exhibition of Andy Warhol’s 'Reigning Queens' series, featuring 16 rare screen prints of four monarchs.

A mobile museum has begun touring masterpieces from the Tate collection around the midlands and north of England. Tate has teamed up with art foundation Art Explora and MuMo to bring works by the likes of Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst,...

INTERVIEW: Robert Cameron, Vice President of Levi's, on the collaboration with Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, what inspired it, and why he believes Levi's has survived throughout the years at the Warhol Factory X Levi's X Damien Hirst...

ATMOSPHERE: Backstage at Warhol Factory X Levi's, X Damien Hirst Fashion Show at the Warhol Factory X Levi's X Damien Hirst Fashion Show at Gagosian Gallery in New York, New York on September 9, 2007. (Footage by WireImage Video/Getty...