Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h In which we go to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and give you some pointers on how to visit an art museum. Seems easy enough, but there are ways to maximize your experience. What are your museum tricks and tips? Let's talk about it in the comments!

Many thanks to The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art for giving us access to their wonderful institution. Their admission is free, but they can only do this because of donations and memberships. So while we joke that you should always find a way to get in for free, you should also consider supporting your local institutions whenever you can and in whatever way you can. This can be through membership, donations, attending events, or volunteering your time. (And if you happen to have an amazing art collection of your own, you should will it to a museum. Really. Your grandchildren won't appreciate it nearly as much as an entire city will for many generations to come.)

Learn more about the Kemper: www.kemperart.org.
And find out ways to support it: https://www.kemperart.org/involved/index.asp.

Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h We’re talking about your responses to Tameka Norris’s assignment to Become Someone Else and how both internal and external change are a constant and inevitable reality in our lives. Thanks for all the wonderful submissions!

Watch the original assignment: https://youtu.be/lmNKc4-zLOA

Featured in this video:
Soleil: https://instagram.com/p/zxWqWCJ81e/
haveyouseenmyfez: http://bit.ly/1LOiURL
Laura: http://bit.ly/1ikqlGo
Rebecca: http://bit.ly/1JQD0a3
murderbyrosestem: http://bit.ly/1ECsszu
theeemcyclopedia: http://bit.ly/1Od2ti4
Meg: http://bit.ly/1QbeGFa
David: https://instagram.com/p/zxY4WqxmHp/
Kyle: https://instagram.com/p/27zA9-smud/ / https://instagram.com/p/27zP2bsmul/
Not Crazy Just Catholic: http://bit.ly/1N5DONP
flaviaaalouise: https://instagram.com/p/zArNNrJJSX/
JS Kennedy: http://bit.ly/1UuPJW1
Echo Jardini: http://bit.ly/1FlwjvI
justhewett: http://bit.ly/1JEbcsG

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Alec Soth is a photographer who works on large-scale projects that play with the boundaries between his roles as a fine art photographer and photojournalist. This week, he asks you to take on the role of a newspaper photographer and report on a story from a different perspective.

INSTRUCTIONS - News Photographer
1. Pick a story from a news source and follow up with it
2. Look for something that wasn’t covered in the story and take a photo of it
3. Write an accompanying text that pushes the viewer in a different direction
4. Upload your photo and caption with #theartassignment
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Where do the worlds of ART and FOOD intersect? GEORGIA O'KEEFFE was a groundbreaking artist, but also a serious health food enthusiast. We make: 1) Whole Wheat Bread, 2) Tiger's Milk smoothies, and 3) Green Chile with Garlic and Oil + fried eggs. To support our channel, or at least consider it: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment

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Be sure to check out Vanessa Hill's new series Mutant Menu on her channel Brain Craft: http://youtube.com/braincraftvideo

And also check out the new PBS Digital Studio's channel Above the Noise: https://www.youtube.com/abovethenoise

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Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 - 1978) was one of the most influential artists of his generation, and was also the brainchild behind the infamous BONE MEAL in 1971 at the artist-run Food restaurant in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. He served numerous bone-intensive dishes to the guests and then returned their leftover bones to the as necklaces.

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Recipes:
Insanely Good Oxtail Stew: https://www.jamieoliver.com/re....cipes/beef-recipes/i
Roasted Marrow Bones: https://cooking.nytimes.com/re....cipes/9896-roasted-m
Stuffed Marrow Bones: https://www.marthastewart.com/....316006/stuffed-marro
Sautéed Frogs' Legs: https://www.saveur.com/article..../Recipes/Sauteacutee

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Happy Participant Appreciation Month!!
We're taking the next 4 weeks to show off all the hard work you've put into making responses for The Art Assignment, and recognize the many ways in which you support and contribute to this community -- whether that's by making art, leaving comments, or just watching the videos! This week we look at some of our favorite submissions to Tanja Hollander's assignment Photo a Friend.

Watch the original assignment here: https://youtu.be/0posLr4TTiI

Get started on the next Art Assignment Book Club book! We'll be discussing it on May 14th.
Art as Experience by John Dewey: http://www.amazon.com/Art-as-E....xperience-John-Dewey

Featured in this video:

1. Meg Gilbert & Betty (ARTiculations): http://megmotherwort.tumblr.co....m/post/100010081124/ | http://articulationsvlog.tumbl....r.com/post/100001372
2. Lydia: http://elemesy.tumblr.com/post..../99514041474/the-art | http://elemesy.tumblr.com/post..../99516917999/the-art
3. Goat Eyes and Howard: http://pm-me-goat-pics.tumblr.....com/post/98558912731
4. Aubrey: http://carpediemphoto.tumblr.c....om/post/111812106103
5. Hannah: http://mysleeplessreply.tumblr.....com/post/9865939566
6. Peter: http://goverbanoun.tumblr.com/....post/100281208907/th
7. Elizabeth: http://foundonland.tumblr.com/....post/98817897945/pho
8. The Art of Being Human: http://yes4poe.tumblr.com/post..../99486307047/photo-o
9. trishy199: http://trishy199.tumblr.com/po....st/98645107830/my-fo
10. Laura: http://colemanlaura.tumblr.com..../post/98683085109/fo
11. LindsfromCO: http://lindsfromco.tumblr.com/....post/100531774582/i-
12. My Year By Design: https://yearbydesign.wordpress.....com/2014/11/06/art-
13. Safarox: http://safarox.tumblr.com/post..../99883344412/the-art
14. Wolfs-toeter: http://wolfs-toeter.tumblr.com..../post/98462081847/so
15. Murderbyrosestem: http://murderbyrosestem.tumblr.....com/post/1006768374

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Artist Henri Rousseau painted The Dream in 1910, and it's imagery of a woman lounging on a sofa in the middle of a jungle was as surreal then as it is today. What is it about this artwork that captivated audiences then and now? #art #henrirousseau #thedream

Thanks to our Grandmasters of the Arts Tyler Calvert-Thompson, Divide by Zero Collection, David Golden, and Ernest Wolfe, and all of our patrons, especially Rich Clarey, Iain Eudaily, Frame Monster Design Laboratory, Patrick Hanna, Nichole Hicks, Andrew Huynh, Eve Leonard, David Moore, Gabriel Civita Ramirez, Constance Urist, Nicholas Xu, and Roberta Zaphiriou. To support our channel, visit: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

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Mark Stewart: https://soundstewart.com/
Julia Wolfe: https://juliawolfemusic.com/
(of the organization Bang on a Can: https://bangonacan.org/)
The Guerrilla Girls: https://www.guerrillagirls.com/

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Fluxus was a network of artists who thought anything could be art, and anyone could be an artist. This video explores the food-related work of George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and Alison Knowles, et al. Vote for your favorite novel here!: https://to.pbs.org/2Jes2X5

And learn more about PBS's The Great American Read: https://to.pbs.org/2IXQuZE.

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Sampling, appropriating, borrowing, stealing. Whatever you want to call it, artists have been copying since time immemorial. We look into the history of the practice, and share our theories of why it is done, and what it can offer us. To support our channel, or at least consider it: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

Written by Joanna Fiduccia

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In which The Art Assignment visits artist David Brooks in his Brooklyn studio and receives the fascinating assignment of articulating something that you know exists, but that you've never seen and probably never will.

INSTRUCTIONS - Never Seen, Never Will

1. Think of something that exists that you've never seen, and probably never will

2. Articulate it (any medium will do)

3. Upload it using #theartassignment

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

Learn more about David's work through his gallery American Contemporary: http://americancontemporary.bi....z/artists/david-broo

And watch these fantastic videos of him made by Art21:
http://youtu.be/wz2-pqCmjAs
http://youtu.be/ACd7kz2E2kM

Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h In which we explore our neighboring city of Chicago, film with two local artists, and see more art in one day than is probably advisable.

Featuring:
Nuevo Leon Bakery
Dusek's
XOCO
Chicago Cultural Center
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
The Stony Island Arts Bank
Smart Museum of Art
Elmhurst Art Museum

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Artist and educator Allison Smith shares her thoughts and library of books about art made in adverse circumstances. Featured are Vladimir Arkhipov's project Home-Made, archiving Russian artifacts made during Perestroika, and Trench Art, or art and objects made during armed conflict, highlighting works from Trench Art: An Illustrated History by Jane A Kimball.

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Empathy is a term we hear a lot, but what does it mean and how does it work? Looking back through art history, we find many moments when art has allowed us to share in the feelings of others, from Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial, to representations of the Buddhist deity Jizō Bosatsu, along with the Röttgen Pietà, Guáman Poma's First New Chronicle and Good Government, the ink drawings of Chittaprosad and Zainul Abedin, the work of Ghana Think Tank, and more.
#art #AParthistory #empathy

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This episode was made in partnership with Smarthistory, the most-visited art history website in the world (https://smarthistory.org). Subscribe to their channel today: https://www.youtube.com/user/smarthistoryvideos

Empathy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empathy/
http://blog.yalebooks.com/2018..../11/21/the-origin-of
Goya's The Third of May 1808: https://smarthistory.org/goya-third-of-may-1808/
Röttgen Pietà: https://www.khanacademy.org/hu....manities/ap-art-hist
Jizō Bosatsu: https://smarthistory.org/jizo-bosatsu/
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/....collection/search/44
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: http://www.kb.dk/permalink/200....6/poma/info/en/front
https://www.khanacademy.org/hu....manities/art-america
Chittaprosad: https://hyperallergic.com/4396....19/the-artist-who-sk
https://www.documenta14.de/en/....artists/21960/chitta
Zainul Abedin: https://www.documenta14.de/en/....artists/21944/zainul
Käthe Kollwitz: https://www.khanacademy.org/hu....manities/ap-art-hist
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: https://smarthistory.org/maya-....lin-vietnam-veterans
Alfredo Jaar's Rwanda Project: https://art21.org/read/alfredo....-jaar-the-rwanda-pro
Ghana ThinkTank: http://www.ghanathinktank.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRqJ-qPFvko&t=196s

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Explore Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring" up close, and see how it's different (and not) from a high-res 3D print of the painting. We visit the Mauritshuis in The Hague and learn what happens when conservation scientists study the painting with today's most advanced technology.

This project was made possible by Google Arts & Culture. For more info go to https://artsandculture.google.com/project/vermeer.

The Girl in the Spotlight research project is a Mauritshuis initiative, with a team of internationally recognised specialists working within the collaborative framework of the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science (NCIS).

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Performance artist Ryan McNamara joins The Art Assignment to challenge you to play a game of Movement Telephone.

Sarah then compares this assignment to the evolution of the meme, which is a sophisticated and rapid form of imitation.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Find a clip of movement on the internet. Watch it once.
2. Film yourself replicating that movement.
3. Watch your video and then film yourself replicating your movement in that video.
4. Repeat step 3.
5. Upload your 3 clips (edited together, ideally) and a link to your inspiration video with #theartassignment.
6. Fame and glory (your work may be in a future video).

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This week we meet with Jesse Sugarmann, whose artwork considers how the automotive industry shapes the way we live and construct our identities. His assignment asks you to think about the way car consumerism, and the aesthetic choices behind it, has shaped you and your family. Let's talk cars.

INSTRUCTIONS - Vehicular Palette
1. Ask members of your family what kind of cars they’ve owned and when. Make a list.

2. Select a timeframe for your data

3. Choose an element of the car you would like to focus on

4. Take these elements and create a data visualization system

5. Share using #theartassignment

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

Link for the full steps: https://youtu.be/h31PemGX2zA

Learn more about Jesse's work: https://vimeo.com/user7569805

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Our first video on fierce women artists didn't even begin to cover the volume of interesting and boundary-pushing work made by women, so we had to make another. This week we talk about the incredible Artemisia Gentileschi, Mona Hatoum, Frida Kahlo, Hannah Höch, and Yayoi Kusama.

Watch the first part here: https://youtu.be/zHair5dvG0s

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Join hosts Sarah Urist Green and John Green as they meet artists Douglas Paulson and Christopher Robbins and receive the first assignment of the series. We begin at Flux Factory in Long Island City, Queens, and follow Doug and Chris as they lead us on a journey to Meet in the Middle.

EPISODE 01 INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Pick a friend, and calculate the exact geographic midpoint between where the two of you live.
You can use http://www.geomidpoint.com/ or other websites to calculate your midpoint, or even-gasp-use a paper map.

2. Decide on a date and a time to meet there, and don't communicate until then.

3. Document your experience. You can do this however you'd like, using photos, video, text, drawings, or anything else.

4. Upload your documentation and share it online using whatever social media platforms you prefer, being sure to tag it with #theartassignment so we can find it. Your response to the assignment may be included in a future episode!

Learn more about Doug's work here: http://www.douglaspaulson.com/
And more about Chris's work here: http://www.christopher-robbins.com/
And more about Flux Factory here: http://www.fluxfactory.org/, @flux_factory

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Laurel Nakadate makes art by connecting with strangers, and she wants you to do this, too! She gives us the challenge of finding little known family members and making their photographic portrait.

Sarah also discusses photography as an artistic medium and highlights a specific theory in Roland Barthes' book, CAMERA LUCIDA.

INSTRUCTIONS - RELATIVE STRANGERS
1. Find a family member who you haven't seen in a while or have never met
2. Take their portrait
3. Upload it to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

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