The Art Assignment

Join the Art Assignment community for projects with great American contemporary artists.

Episodes

  • Make a Book with Meat (or other atypical materials): asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Make a Book with Meat (or other atypical materials)

    S6 Ep32 |
    Artist and designer Ben Denzer shares an assignment to make an ATYPICAL BOOK.
  • The Truth of the Tortured Artist: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    The Truth of the Tortured Artist

    S4 Ep30 |
    The Truth of the Tortured Artist
  • The Case for Video Art: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    The Case for Video Art

    S4 Ep29 |
    What is video art?
  • Art You Can't Get To: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art You Can't Get To

    S4 Ep28 |
    Scientists left a plastic bust of Lenin at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.
  • Art I Can't Show You: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art I Can't Show You

    S4 Ep27 |
    John Green discusses how Agnes Martin's paintings brilliantly capture emotion.
  • Which is the Real Girl with a Pearl Earring?: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Which is the Real Girl with a Pearl Earring?

    S4 Ep26 |
    A look at "Girl with the Pearl Earring," with the use of innovative technology.
  • Art Cooking: Dutch and Flemish Still Life Painting: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art Cooking: Dutch and Flemish Still Life Painting

    S4 Ep25 |
    The good life is on display in 17th Century Dutch and Flemish still life paintings.
  • Behind the Banksy Stunt: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Behind the Banksy Stunt

    S4 Ep24 |
    Banksy shredded his artwork the moment after it sold at auction.
  • ART TRIP: DETROIT: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    ART TRIP: DETROIT

    S4 Ep23 |
    The Diego Rivera mural, Heidelberg Project, MOCA, abandoned buildings, and much more.

Specials

  • Public Art Trip: New York City: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Public Art Trip: New York City

    On this trip, we focus on the abundant public art around New York City.

About The Art Assignment

The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. We take you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete.