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.
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The Definition of Art
Show title: the art assignment, video title: the definition of art.
Video description: What is art? How do we define art? In this episode, we explore some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood this thing we call art.
Make a Book with Meat (or other atypical materials)
Art That Was Never Finished
Make a Cut-Out with Cécile McLorin Salvant
Art Made in Adversity
Art That Brings Me Comfort
Creativity is Overrated
What This Painting Tells Us About Frida Kahlo
What Makes a Masterpiece?
The Case for Video Games
Having a Coke with Frank O'Hara
Art Therapize Yourself
Why Is This Woman in the Jungle?
The $150,000 Banana
Is Instagram Changing Art?
Why Do Corporations Buy Art?
My Top 40 Art Reflections
The Case for Impressionism
How to Sound like you Understand Art
What Did Monet Eat in a Day?
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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.
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What is art? This episode explores some of the many ways that artists, writers, and thinkers have defined and understood art. Part of "The Art Assignment" series.
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Runtime: 13 minutes 4 seconds
- Topic: Arts , Education
- Subtopic: Art Education , Art History , Arts
- Grade/Interest Level: 10 - 12
- Standards: Meets 1327 total
- Release Year: 2020
- Producer/Distributor: PBS Digital Studios
- Series: The Art Assignment
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