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.
  • Art Must Be Beautiful: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art Must Be Beautiful

    S4 Ep6 |
    We revisit ancient philosophers' thoughts on beauty.
  • Art Cooking: Vincent Van Gogh: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art Cooking: Vincent Van Gogh

    S4 Ep5 |
    The life and eating habits of artist Vincent Van Gogh,
  • Better Know: The Starry Night: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Better Know: The Starry Night

    S4 Ep4 |
    Taking a look at Vincent Van Gogh's famed painting The Starry Night.
  • Art Cooking: Salvador Dali: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art Cooking: Salvador Dali

    S4 Ep3 |
    Surrealist artist Salvador Dali is well known, but what about his 1973 cookbook?
  • The Case for Jackson Pollock: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    The Case for Jackson Pollock

    S4 Ep2 |
    We explore the life, evolution, and legacy of Jackson Pollock.
  • Do Machines Make Art?: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Do Machines Make Art?

    S3 Ep50 |
    When art is generated by Artificial Intelligence, what or who can we call the artist?
  • Art is Pretentious*: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art is Pretentious*

    S3 Ep49 |
    *and other things I learned about art from the internet.
  • Art Cooking: Bone Meal: asset-mezzanine-16x9
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    Art Cooking: Bone Meal

    S3 Ep48 |
    The brainchild behind the infamous 1971 BONE MEAL at the artist-run NYC Food restaurant.

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.