The Art Assignment
Find Your Band | Bang on A Can | The Art Assignment
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...
The Wall Street Journal
Beyond The Canvas: Ideas, Culture and Art
Adam Pendleton unpacks the concept of "Black Dada" that is central to his work and discusses how his creations inform cultural conversations about race in America.
The Art Assignment
The Case for Conceptual Art
Sometimes art is paintings, and sometimes it's a chair. Why? Let's learn about "Conceptual Art," where the idea is more important than the form.
Curated Video
Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson: Great Art Explained
You could say Land art existed thousands of years even before oil painting, but it would take a group of American artists to bring it back to the public gaze in the 1960s and 70s. Artists like Michael Heizer, Robert Smithson, and Nancy...
The Art Assignment
Copy a Copy a Copy | Molly Springfield | The Art Assignment
This week we meet D.C. based artist Molly Springfield. Molly's graphite drawings transform texts into images, and her assignment for you asks you to consider how repeating a process can turn a copy into an original.
The Art Assignment
The $150,000 Banana
Artist Maurizio Cattelan duct taped a banana to a wall, titled it "Comedian", and sold 5 editions of the artwork for as much as $150,000 each. Why did it capture our attention, curiosity, and memes? What does it mean?
Curated Video
RR7449B ART A FILIPINO CALLED CASTRILLO
Eduardo Castrillo doesn't conform to the standard
image of an artist. Not for him the starving and
suffering for the sake of his art. He is young, brash
and trendy - drives a flashy Corvette roadster and
measures his commissions in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art
This video discusses John Baldessari's, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971, lithograph, 22-7/16 x 30-1/16 inches (The Museum of Modern Art), images John Baldessari, courtesy of the artist. Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr....
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: "To Lift" by Richard Serra, 1967: Mo Ma Education
In this video [2:32] a MoMA educator discusses how he teaches 'To Lift' by Richard Serra, 1967.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Wall Drawing #1144, "Broken Bands of Color in Four Directions"
A MoMA educator discusses how she teaches 'Wall Drawing #1144, Broken Bands of Color in Four Directions' by Sol LeWitt, 2004.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conceptualism: Lesson 1
This lesson will explore Conceptualism. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Conceptualism."