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We meet up with artist Jamal Cyrus in his hometown of Houston, Texas, where we broach the topic of "postmodernism" and are challenged to summon an impossible sound.

INSTRUCTIONS - Brain Sounds
1. Think of a sound you've never heard before or an unlikely combination of performer and venue, et al.
2. Represent this sound visually, taking any form you like
3. Share your representation using #theartassignment

Learn more about Jamal and his work:
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The naked and the nude have been frequent subjects for art throughout the history of human creation, and also the frequent subject of censorship. What's wrong with seeing the unclothed human body? And what is its place in art?

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We went to ArtPrize and met up with Minneapolis based artists Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani. Their exhibit this year invited the audience to destroy the large-scale handmade piñatas that they had spent hours constructing. And now it’s your turn to make and break.


INSTRUCTIONS - MAKE IT BREAK IT
1. Create something
2. Have someone else destroy it
3. Share with us an image of the destroyed object and/or your documentation of the process of destruction
4. Upload with #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)


We then discuss how our works of art can be changed or developed overtime and give example ot other artists that do so - like Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Dieter Roth.

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The Art Assignment furthers their exploration of New Orleans to visit artist Bob Snead. He's the Executive Director of Press Street, an organization that promotes art and literature in the community through events, publications and arts education. Snead embraces the collaborative nature of art-making and gives us the assignment to produce an Assembly Line.

John and Sarah Green then discuss the controversy in contemporary art of using assistants and others to make the art and not the artist. Sarah shows how this has been a common practice and gives a prime example, Leonardo Da Vinci.

INSTRUCTIONS - Assembly Line
1. Make an object
2. Make a template for how to recreate that object
3. Invite friends over and produce an assembly line to recreate that object
4. Document the process and upload with #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)

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We meet with Brooklyn-based artist Diana Shpungin. Diana's work and her assignment for you are both based on empathy -- it's a feeling we usually have for other people, but Diana wants you to direct your empathy towards objects instead.

INSTRUCTIONS - Object Empathy
1. Find and object you feel bad for.
2. Fix it in your own style.
3. Show us what you've done. Upload using #theartassignment.
4. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode).


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In which The Art Assignment visits Chicago-based artist Deb Sokolow and receives the assignment to do a stakeout!

EPISODE 02 INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Find an interesting object

2. Place the object in a public spot where people can interact with it

3. Pick a location to observe these interactions

4. Document your experience (photo, video, drawing, anything)

5. Upload it using #theartassignment

6. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Deb's work here: http://debsokolow.com
Listen to a great interview with her here: http://badatsports.com/2013/deb-sokolow-interview/

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We meet Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian in Lawrence, Kansas, at the former home of American writer William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997). Nina takes us on her journey of sorting Burroughs's book collection and challenges you to sort some books yourself!

INSTRUCTIONS - Sorted Books
1. Choose a person you know or would like to know better
2. Take a look at/through their library
3. Make 3 stacks of books to develop a portrait of the person
4. Upload it to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)


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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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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h This week we answer your questions from our art hotline* and talk about the legitimacy of celebrity artists, the embarrassment of being called an "artist", why we laugh at art, and more. Keep the calls coming - leave us a message at 901-602-ARTY!

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Sarah and John answer your questions and walk through the many ways to experience and participate in The Art Assignment. They also announce a new Art Assignment Response blog where you can find all past responses categorized by assignment: http://all.theartassignment.com.

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This week we meet Jan Tichy, a Chicago-based artist who gives us the assignment to create an Expanded Moment using video.

We also discuss how this assignment is a play on THE DECISIVE MOMENT by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who captured split-seconds points of action.

INSTRUCTIONS - Expanded Moment
1) Find a place with the potential for visual movement
2) Place your video camera on or attach it to a stable object
3) Record at least 2 minutes without moving the camera (and no sound!)
4) Upload it using #theartassignment
5) Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)

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INSTRUCTIONS
1. CONJURE A STUDIO: REAL OR IMAGINARY
- Where do you like to work?
- What do you like to do?
- If you could do it anywhere (or with anyone), where would it be?
2. MAKE IT HAPPEN
- Take over, transform, build a space...
- Make a drawing, collage or model...
- Make it life size or miniature (or giant)...
- Hidden or in plain site...
3. Upload documentation using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Hope's work: http://www.hopeginsburg.com/

Sarah then discusses what Marcel Duchamp explored in his own studio.

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In which we visit artist Kate Gilmore in her Brooklyn studio and receive the assignment to Walk on It.

INSTRUCTIONS - Walk On It

1. Find a big piece of wood or board

2. Paint it heavy with a color that you love

3. Put on a fabulous pair of shoes and walk on it. When it looks cool, you're done.

4. Upload it using #theartassignment

5. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Kate Gilmore: www.kategilmore.com
Watch an excellent video by MOCA Cleveland: http://vimeo.com/66081903
And here's one of me talking to Kate back in 2010 when she was commissioned to create a work for the Indianapolis Museum of Art: http://youtu.be/C3PjWmUJZsM

Also mentioned:
Jackson Pollock: http://youtu.be/6cgBvpjwOGo
Lynda Benglis: http://whitney.org/WatchAndLis....ten/Artists?play_id=
Bruce Nauman: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bruce-nauman
Process Art: http://www.artspace.com/magazi....ne/art_101/process_a

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This week we meet with artist and designer Jonathan Nesci at the First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana. Jonathan uses systems of design to experiment with new materials and processes, and his assignment for you invites you to do the same by combining a set of particular shapes into different variations.

INSTRUCTIONS - Present Perimeter
1. Create a work of art using the Present Perimeter System (1 hexagon, 3 half hexagons, 3 rhombuses, and 3 triangles)
2. Document your work and upload using #theartassignment
3. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Sarah also talks about how parameters and rules can release creativity in art and uses Sol LeWitt as an example.

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After more than 6 years and 220+ videos, it's time for The Art Assignment take a break, slow down production, and reassess what educational art content should look like in 2020 and beyond. Sarah Urist Green talks about what she's learned while making this channel and what she'd like to do next (after sleeping for a while).

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Indianapolis-based artist Brian McCutcheon asks you to Customize It! This art prompt is asking you to look at the traits around the object and play with one of those traits, thus changing how it's used.

Sarah then highlights Méret Oppenheim, a key figure in surrealism, who transformed something as a cup and saucer.

INSTRUCTIONS - Customize It
1) Find a common object that you find interesting
2) Make a list of identifying traits about that object
3) Customize the object while thinking about and playing with one of those traits
4) Show us what you've done by posting to your social media platform of choice with #theartassignment

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Today we talk to textile artist Sonya Clark, who applies the techniques of textile work to represent her personal and cultural history. Her assignment draws on her insightful approach to histories and asks you to represent yours.

INSTRUCTIONS - Measuring Histories
1. Think about an aspect of your personal or cultural history that is hard to imagine
2. Select a material to quantify, measure, and actualize that history
3. Or, do something familiar to you for as long as you can and measure it to see what it lines up with from your personal or cultural history
4. Upload documentation of your experience using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)

See more of Sonya's work here: http://sonyaclark.com/

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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?

Please Break The Law: Reading List
(please suggest other readings in the comments)

Modernism
- Charles Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Life" (1863)
- Serge Guilbaut, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, and David Solkin (eds), Modernism and Modernity (1983)
- Francis Frascina and Jonathan Harris (eds), Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical Texts (1992)
- Meyer Shapiro, Modern Art: 19th and 20th Century, Selected Papers, vol. 2 (1978)

The Avant-Garde
- Henri de Saint-Simon, "L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel" ("The artist, the scientist and the industrialist") (1825)
- Clement Greenberg's "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939)
- Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" in Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)
- Peter Bürger's "Theory of the Avant-Garde" (1974)
- Rosalind E. Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1985)
- Hal Foster, "Who's Afraid of the Neo-Avant-Garde?" in The Return of the Real (1996)
- Matthew Witkovsky, ed., Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life: Early Twentieth-Century European Modernism (2011)

Pussy Riot
- Masha Gessen's Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot (2014)
- Pussy Riot's Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer For Freedom (2012)
- @Eng_Pussy_Riot

Ai Weiwei
- Ai Weiwei and Lee Ambrozy's Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009 (2011)
- Kerry Brougher, Mami Kataoka, and Charles Merewether's Ai Weiwei: According to What? (2012)
- Alison Klayman's film AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY (2012)
- @aiww | @aiww_en

Art + civil disobedience
- Hannah Arendt's "Civil Disobedience" (1970)
- Randy Martin's Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self (1990)
- Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others (2004)
- Slavoj Zizek's Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (2008)
- Nato Thompson, Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 (2012)

Forget the hype and experience the art and history that Detroit offers up in spades. We visit the Diego Rivera mural, Heidelberg Project, MOCA, abandoned buildings, and much more. To see us take more art trips, support our channel by visiting: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

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Surrealist artist Salvador Dali is well known for his distinctive mustache and melting clocks, but what about his 1973 cookbook? Come along with us as we attempt a Bush of Crayfish in Viking Herbs from Les Diners de Gala, and also explore Dali's life and art.

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