Join hosts Sarah Urist Green and John Green as they meet artists Douglas Paulson and Christopher Robbins and receive the first assignment of the series. We begin at Flux Factory in Long Island City, Queens, and follow Doug and Chris as...

This week's assignment comes from Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan, who cofounded THE THING Quarterly, a publication that distributes everyday objects conceived of by different artists. They ask you to consider the meaning of physical...

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.

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We visit Fritz Haeg at his home and studio in Los Angeles and receive the assignment to make a rag rug! But not just any rag rug--one that you make over time and do something on.

This week we come to you from Rosarito, Mexico AND Chicago, IL to bring you an assignment from Hugo Crosthwaite. Hugo asks you to create a collaborative drawing by playing the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse.

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... -...

This week Mike Rugnetta joins us to share five of his favorite works of art. Thanks, Mike!

This week we meet with Jesse Sugarmann, whose artwork considers how the automotive industry shapes the way we live and construct our identities. His assignment asks you to think about the way car consumerism, and the aesthetic choices...

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.

For our second international art trip, we travel to London during Frieze Art Fair. We saw a lot of art! Almost too much.

We visit Assaf Evron in Chicago to consider how photography can help us see the familiar places we visit everyday differently.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An analsysis Sarah Sze's public art in the New York City Subway

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.

A history and analysis of Kehinde Wiley's presidential portrait of Barak Obama

We addressed the myth, and now it's time for the truth of the tortured artist. Some art is born of pain and suffering, and reflects the darkest side of human experience. We like that about it.

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.

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.

In 2017, at Christie’s Auction House in New York, a mysterious #Art buyer bid a record-breaking $450 million dollars for the #SalvatorMundi; a painting by the legendary Leonardo da Vinci.



News of the staggering purchase...