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Art Trip: Tijuana | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
On this international art trip, we travel to Tijuana to meet with Ghana Think Tank and Torolab, explore the city, and visit artist Hugo Crosthwaite's studio.
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Why Do Corporations Buy Art?
Corporate lobbies and board rooms are often graced with impressive art, but why? What's the rationale behind this expense, and what impact does it have on the rest of the art world? We look at the history of corporate collecting,...
Amor Sciendi
A Revolution in History Paintings
As the United States became a nation, it also needed to invent a new visual vocabulary in its history paintings. This is the story of how that happened.
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Art Trip: Houston | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
We take an art pilgrimage to Houston, Texas, and visit the likes of the Rothko Chapel, James Turrell's Twilight Epiphany, the Menil Collection, and Project Row Houses, among others. Come with us we feast upon Houston's many cultural...
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Artists in Love
Art History of full of amazing artist couples. Let's look at a handful of talented individuals who joined forces either for a lifelong collaboration or a finite but fruitful romance: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Merce Cunningham and...
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When Art Breaks the Law
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?
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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.
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Public Art Study: Fred Wilson's E Pluribus Unum | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
What is public art? Who funds it, owns it, and shapes it? Who does it serve? And why is it important? We try to answer some of these questions by looking at an example of public art that never came to be - Fred Wilson’s E Pluribus Unum.
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Embarrassing Object Empathy | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we share some of your excellent responses to two assignments -- Geof Oppenheimer's Embarrassing Object and Diana Shpungin's Object Empathy.
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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.
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Art Happens at VidCon | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we report to you from VidCon! We asked some members of the Art Assignment community to share their experience of participating in an art exchange and making a Lost Childhood Object. Here's what they said. Many thanks to...
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
Magazine Sculpture Techniques
“Upcycle” by using rolled magazine papers to build your next sculpture or craft! This video will show you some simple techniques to try.
Amor Sciendi
This Painting is about Technology
The landscape paintings of the early 19th century weren't just about Democracy, they're also a commentary on the role of technology in human affairs. But does it lead to an extinction event, or global empathy?
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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...
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Become a Sci-Fi Character | Desirée Holman | The Art Assignment
We sit down with artist Desirée Holman to talk about her current project, Sophont, which explores ideas of science fiction, aliens, new-age ideology, mysticism, and tech culture. Her assignment asks you to become a science fiction...
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Art Cooking PICASSO
Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time, but was also an inveterate womanizer and misogynist. Let's cook our way through moments in Picasso's life and process our conflicted feelings.
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Draw a Psychological Landscape | Robyn O'Neil | The Art Assignment
In which Los Angeles-based artist Robyn O'Neil challenges you to draw a psychological landscape.
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
How to Make a Keyhole Collage - Art Lesson
This art project will help you (or your students) review foreground, middle ground, and background in a fun and creative way! Create a mixed media keyhole collage to represent a world you would love to explore!
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher
How to Create a Masking Tape Shoe Cast | Part 1 for Paper Mache Shoe | 3D Sculpture Art Lesson
This is part one of a series on how to create a Paper Mache Shoe. In this step, I will show you how to cast a shoe using masking tape for a “base”.
Amor Sciendi
St. Jerome in His Study
Antonello de Messina's St. Jerome in his study is a good entry point for the iconography of Saints and the its use to communicate abstract concepts. St. Jerome is a conflicted character, and the items around him help to communicate that.
Amor Sciendi
Rain, Steam and Speed: the Mechanized Conquest of England
JMW Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed illustrates the complexity of cultural change.
Amor Sciendi
Prehistoric Cave Art from Font de Gaume Cave
We discuss mankind's beautiful ability to think abstractly while looking at cave paintings.
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Under the Influence Highlights | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
Peggy Noland, Garry Noland, and Sarah Urist Green discuss some of their favorite responses to the Under the Influence assignment.
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Misinterpretations: Laocoon and His Sons | AmorSciendi
Have you seen this sculpture? I came across it many years ago in the Vatican Museum, and it's one of those that stays with you. I never pursued my interest in the sculpture, though, until I came across a reference to it while reading...