Artist and designer Ben Denzer shares an assignment to make an ATYPICAL BOOK. He’s made books from meat, toilet paper, ketchup packets, and lottery tickets, among much else. Your challenge: 1) Make a book that is atypical in terms of its form or material + 2) Share it on Instagram or Twitter with #youareanartist.
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Learn more about Ben’s work: http://bendenzer.com/
Learn more about the Center for Book Arts: http://centerforbookarts.org/

A GUIDE TO BASIC BOOKBINDING TECHNIQUES:
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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h This week we're talking about a group of supremely awesome and unapologetic artists who take risks, question art world practices, and also happen to be women -- we're calling them Fierce Women of Art. These are truly inspirational artists who make a wide range of work, and today we're going to single out and celebrate five of them: the Guerrilla Girls, Corita Kent, Lynda Benglis, Xiao Lu, and Kara Walker.


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There is plenty of art ABOUT space, but this video explores art ACTUALLY IN space. Learn about cosmonauts sketching orbital sunrises, the Moon Museum, Carl Sagan's Golden Record, and the sculptures currently orbiting Earth today, among other works of space art. Journey over to It's Okay to Be Smart to watch their Summer of Space episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr28zMXQ3bU

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Illustrator and artist Christoph Niemann joins The Art Assignment to give out the challenge of finding the emotion in furniture.

Sarah also looks into art history as she dissects Edward Hopper's Nighthawks with other works, and how emotion can be conveyed beyond figures.

INSTRUCTIONS - Emotional Furniture
1. Arrange furniture in a way that conveys envy, melancholy, and confidence
2. Take 3 photographs, one for each emotion (no figures or faces allowed!)
3. Upload it to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work may be featured in a future episode)

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We've spent quite a bit of time exploring art in other people's cities, so we figured it was time to come back home and try being tourists in our own town.

The itinerary:
Kaffeine Coffee: http://www.kaffeinecoffee.com/
Indiana Pacers Bikeshare: https://www.pacersbikeshare.org/
Indianapolis Cultural Trail: http://indyculturaltrail.org/
The Alexander: https://www.thealexander.com/
Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital and Health Campus: http://www.eskenazihealth.edu/
Wildwood Market: https://www.wildwoodmarket.com/
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art: http://indymoca.org/
The Museum of Psychphonics: https://www.facebook.com/museumofpsychphonics/
People for Urban Progress: http://www.peopleup.org/
General Public Collective: http://general-public.us/
Tube Factory: http://www.bigcar.org/project/tubefactory/
Listen Hear: http://www.bigcar.org/project/listen/
PRINTtEXT: http://printtext.co/
Open Society: http://www.opensocietyindy.com/
Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres: http://www.imamuseum.org/visit/the-park

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This week we come to you from Rosarito, Mexico AND Chicago, IL to bring you an assignment from Hugo Crosthwaite. Hugo asks you to create a collaborative drawing by playing the Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse.
INSTRUCTIONS - Exquisite Corpse
1. Find a drawing surface and gather a group of friends
2. Start a drawing and when finished, cover it up so it's hidden from the next drawer
3. Repeat step 3 until everyone has drawn
4. Reveal the collaboration and share with us using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)

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Behold the 2017 Venice Biennale. Called the "olympics of the art world," the exhibition invades historic (and tourist clogged) Venice, Italy, every two years, and has since 1895. Contemporary art abounds, with installations and exhibitions occupying the city's Giardini and Arsenale, as well as art venues throughout the city. And yes, we ate plenty of gelato and rode in a gondola.

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Dorothea Lange captured this iconic photo known as Migrant Mother in 1936. But who was the woman pictured? And how did she and her family feel about its existence in the world? Guest host John Green introduces you to Florence Owens Thompson, her family, and her story. #migrantmother #dorothealange #photography

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The Art Assignment travels to New Orleans to meet with Tameka Norris, who makes art in a variety of media and often uses her body in her work. She challenges YOU to become someone else.

Sarah then highlights Adrian Piper, who created an altar ego for herself (The Mythic Being) and performed this ego both in private and in public.

INSTRUCTIONS - Become Someone Else
1. Take a selfie
2. Change one thing about you
3. Go out into the world
4. Take another selfie
5. Upload both photos using #theartassignment
6. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

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In which we explore Washington, DC's vast and diverse collection of landmarks, museums, and galleries - ranging from institutions like the Hirshhorn to the art-worthy metro system. Let's take a trip through Washington, DC.

Featuring the Renwick Gallery, American University Museum, Phillips Collection, Freer & Sackler Galleries, National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Hemphill Fine Arts, Adamson Gallery, Transformer, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the Hirshhorn Museum.

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This episode of Art Cooking explores the life, art, and eating habits of the great Impressionist artist Claude Monet. We prepare a menu based on the journals Monet kept during his years in Giverny, France, enjoying the freshest produce from the vegetable garden he kept along side the extensive flower and water gardens you recognize from his paintings.
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We follow the Guerrilla Girls as they visit Frieze Art Fair in London to share their new campaign with collectors and gallerists. This is what went down.

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Can you separate the art from the artist? This one's In honor of all the art you used to love, and it's creators who ruined it by behaving badly. We talk Picasso, Nanette, cats out of bags, and much more. To support our channel, visit: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

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Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin? There’s a reason. Here we present you with a brief history of performance art and attempt to sway you to its potential charms. Let us know if you buy it.

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We drop in on London-based artist Peter Liversidge, who gives us proposals in the place of assignments. Do one or do all three and show us your good work!

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Respond to Peter's Proposals, and many of as few as you like.
2. Document what you do and share it with us using #theartassignment
3. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)

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You probably made rubbings in elementary school, but Kim Beck views rubbings as field recordings. She wants you to take a snapshot of a particular place by making a rubbing of the ground you're standing on. Here’s what she means:

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Get a crayon and a large piece of paper
2. Find a piece of ground that you respond to
3. Make a rubbing of that piece of ground
4. Take a photo of the rubbing in the place you made it and upload using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be featured in a future episode)
6. BONUS!: Send us your rubbing (with a return address) and we’ll send you someone else’s — mail to: The Art Assignment, PO Box 30827, Indianapolis, IN 46230

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For our second international art trip, we travel to London during Frieze Art Fair. We saw a lot of art! Almost too much. (Definitely too much.)

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THE LONDON ITINERARY:
1) Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, ft. David Shrifley: https://www.london.gov.uk/what....-we-do/arts-and-cult
2) National Portrait Gallery, London: http://www.npg.org.uk/
3) Royal Academy of Arts: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/
4) Courtauld Gallery: http://courtauld.ac.uk/
5) Whitechapel Gallery: http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/
6) Hauser & Wirth London: http://www.hauserwirth.com/
7) Serpentine Galleries: http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/
8) Tate Modern: http://www.tate.org.uk/
9) Frieze London: https://frieze.com/fairs/frieze-london

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The Art Assignment continues its journey through New Orleans with Brandan "BMike" Odums, the mastermind behind "ExhibitBE", a collaborative street art exhibition that transformed an unoccupied apartment building and gave it new life. Now he's asking YOU to do something similar.

John and Sarah then discuss the movements in art history of exploring and transforming ruins and highlights Sarah's favorite artist, Gordon Matta Clark.

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2. Think about where that object has been and use that story to transform it into something new
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We ventured into the Utah countryside to visit some of the best loved Land Art works of the 1970s, Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels, and check out the art that is happening there now. Also featured: William Lamson's Mineralogy, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, and lots and lots of salt.

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h In which we explore the great city of Richmond, Virginia, and think about its history as well as its present.

Featuring:
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Quirk Hotel
Rappahannock Restaurant
Lamplighter Roasting Company
Early Bird Biscuit Co.
Reynolds Gallery
1708 Gallery
VCU’s Undergraduate Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
The future site of The Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU
Sub Rosa Bakery
Libby Hill Park

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