Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h So much news! Here's your to-do list:
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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h This week we bring back artist, Lauren Zoll, to discuss your submissions to her assignment! Watch the assignment video for "Off" here: http://bit.ly/1r2femA

Learn more about Lauren's work: http://www.laurenzoll.com/

Many thanks to all of you for your wonderful submissions. Those featured include:

http://www.musingsofmaura.tumblr.com
http://www.naturallypaleart.tumblr.com
http://www.truefactsaboutlies.tumblr.com
http://www.marie-herrera.tumblr.com
http://www.anywiebs.tumblr.com
http://www.megmotherwort.tumblr.com
http://www.odetomyday.com
http://www.gamingmama.tumblr.com
http://www.dafidaf.tumblr.com
http://www.what-is-summer.tumblr.com
http://www.prionailurus.tumblr.com
http://www.chasingfootsteps.tumblr.com
http://www.thegirlwithcrayons.tumblr.com
http://www.fromthegraysea.tumblr.com
http://www.dew-picked-and-lightlykilled.tumblr.com
http://www.letswingit.tumblr.com
http://www.dhjshi.tumblr.com

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Today we visit artist Allison Smith in her Oakland, California studio. Her work focuses on historical reenactment and how the past influences the present -- and now she wants to know what YOU are fighting for.

Sarah discusses how there is a long history of art intersecting with activism and how it has evolved over time.

INSTRUCTIONS - The Muster
1. Answer the question, "What are you fighting for?"
2. Fashion your own uniform that declares your cause out of materials you have around
3. Take a picture of yourself in uniform in front of a neutral background
4. Create a declaration of your cause
5. Upload your photo and declaration with #theartassignment

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Frank O'Hara is best known for his poetry, but in this Art Cooking we explore his life as a poet as well as an art curator at MoMA. Subscribe to Ours Poetica to receive regular doses of fresh poetry three times a week!: https://www.youtube.com/ourspoetica.
#frankohara #poetry #artcooking

Thanks to Kaveh Akbar (http://kavehakbar.com) and Paige Lewis (https://paigelewispoetry.com) for joining us and lending their reading talents. Explore more of O'Hara's work!: https://bit.ly/2SKIJvZ

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, Tom Forwood, Patrick Hanna, Andrew Huynh, Eve Leonard, David Moore, Jane Quale, Gabriel Civita Ramirez, Constance Urist, Nicholas Xu, and Roberta Zaphiriou. To support our channel, visit: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

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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 distinction between art and craft (if any), art world pretension, the proliferation of images, imposter syndrome, and more. Keep the calls coming - leave us a message at 901-602-ARTY!
*bling (for the last time, we promise)

RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT ART ONLINE:
Watch our video How to Learn about Contemporary Art: https://youtu.be/An3L7hQdkOg
Google these and explore their websites:
Artsy
Art21
Tate Museums
Hyperallergic
Creative Time Reports
Art F City
BLOUINARTINFO
Smart History
Art Babble
Modern Art Notes (podcast)
Bad At Sports (podcast)
E-Flux
Artnet
Museum of Modern Art
Artforum Guide (and Diary is fun, too)

You can also follow and check in on organizations that commission and produce projects and stage events like Creative Time, Artangel, Art Production Fund, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), and others.

These are really excellent print publications that also feature good content online: Frieze,
BOMB magazine, Esopus, Cabinet, ArtAsiaPacific, Parkett, ArtReview, Afterall, Flash Art, Art Papers, ARTnews, and Art in America.

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h With 2017 comes great change. Assignments are ending, but the channel is not! Starting in March we’ll be focusing on "The Case for" videos, Art Trips, and other art and art history related topics. We're also starting an Art Assignment Work Group to keep the assignment flame alive. If you're interested, please fill out this survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NSMXSKC.

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This week we review some of the best responses to David Brooks's Art Assignment Ep. 4 -- Never Seen, Never Will: http://youtu.be/slCnZzsETVM.

To see more responses, visit our website or follow us on tumblr: http://theartassignment.com.

Many thanks to our participants who were featured:
-Jennifer: http://jenniferjamboree.tumblr.....com/post/8229205486
-Dafidaf: http://dafidaf.tumblr.com/post..../83115754756/18-4-14
-Laufey Haraldsdóttir: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Woloy-nnecM
-David Devine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSkZo8ROnRY
-Why-in-the-night-sky (father portrait): http://why-in-the-night-sky.tu....mblr.com/post/818452
-Nadia: http://nadiact1000.tumblr.com/....post/82149583863/the
-S.E. Vidrio: http://sethvidrio.blogspot.com..../2014/04/i-made-thin
-Abby: http://peppermintscribe.tumblr.....com/post/8176264898
-theemcyclopedia: http://theeemcyclopedia.tumblr.....com/post/8102833530
- iconiclly: http://iconiclly.tumblr.com/po....st/80930948194/for-t
- Leonie Connellan:http://onceuponaspacetime.tumb....lr.com/post/83184839
-Wes!ey Films and Projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WJBNqhhBNk&feature=youtu.be

Sure, you've seen Vincent Van Gogh's famed painting The Starry Night before. And maybe you know of him as a tortured soul. But let's take a closer look behind this most recognizable work of art.

Check out Origin of Everything!
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The Guerrilla Girls are asking, nay demanding, that we complain! But we must do so in ways unique and memorable. We met up with them in London at Tate Modern's new Tate Exchange space, where the Guerrilla Girls were in residence and operating a Complaints Department.

INSTRUCTIONS - The Art of Complaining
1. Think of something you really want to complain about
2. Communicate your message in a unique, creative way
3. Share it on your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about The Guerrilla Girls: https://www.guerrillagirls.com/

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Here's how you can get involved:
1. Tell us what you love about public media using #IlovePBS
2. Learn more about public media at http://pbs.org/value.
3. Find your representative at https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members

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Check out Google’s Science http://g.co/sciencejournal
Sister Corita Kent was a master printmaker and teacher, and her rules for artists and teachers are legendary - let’s break them down. Watch Say it Loud!: https://bit.ly/2CfPRt2.

To support our channel, visit: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment. Thanks to our Grandmaster of the Arts Vincent Apa, and all of our patrons, especially Yakira Dixon, Patrick Hanna, Nichole Hicks, David Moore, Jane Quale, and Constance Urist.

#art #arthistory #coritakent

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The Art Assignment visits artist collective Dignicraft during their residency at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Omar Foglio, José Luis Figueroa, and Paola Rodriguez give us the assignment to facilitate an Encounter / Encuentro, a form of community building.

Sarah Green then explores social practice with the work of Nicolas Bourriaud, who suggests that the rise of urbanization after World War II gave raise to art that is also urbanized.

INSTRUCTIONS - Encounters / Encuentros
1. Think of two people who you know who have similar interests but don't know each other
2. Facilitate a collaboration by introducing them and suggesting they do something together
3. Document the experience
4. Upload to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)

Find out more about The Art Assignment and how to submit your response: http://theartassignment.com/

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Ryan Lott, also known as Son Lux, is a musician and composer who works in collaboration. His assignment for this week offers an opportunity for YOU to collaborate with his music.

Sarah then explores how collaboration is found among many artists, and showcases Merce Cunningham's collaborative relationship with John Cage.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Download and listen to the piece of music that Ryan wrote:
https://soundcloud.com/son-lux/the-art-assignment/
2. Collaborate with Ryan by responding to it in any medium of your choice
3. Upload your collaboration using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)

Find out more about The Art Assignment and how to submit your response: http://theartassignment.com/

The Met Museum in New York is a treasure trove of art, filled with masterpieces of human creativity, but what if it *wasn't* organized geographically or by time period? Is there a better way?

Learn more about Civilizations on PBS and how you can watch: http://www.pbs.org/civilizations/home/

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Round 2 of The Art Assignment Book Club features John Dewey's Art As Experience, which certainly was an experience to read - congratulations to you if you did it! If you didn't, we understand. We read it for you, and we'll discuss some of the big ideas Dewey talks about, including what an art experience actually is, how aesthetics play into experiences, and... Liverpool F.C.?

Read the book if you'd like to learn more!
http://bit.ly/1PlNF5s

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"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory. But what IS it? Or what WAS it? Today we delve into the history of Surrealism, as it formed in post-World War I Europe and as it has infiltrated our wider culture up to today. Here's our case for what Surrealism is, and why you should care about it.

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We take an art pilgrimage to Houston, Texas, and visit the likes of the Rothko Chapel, James Turrell's Twilight Epiphany, the Menil Collection, and Project Row Houses, among others. Come with us we feast upon Houston's many cultural riches, and some good food, too!

The full itinerary:
The Rothko Chapel: http://www.rothkochapel.org/
Siphon Coffee: http://siphoncoffeehouston.com/
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: http://camh.org/
Cullen Sculpture Garden: https://www.mfah.org/visit/cul....len-sculpture-garden
Underbelly: http://www.underbellyhouston.com/
Lawndale Art Center: http://www.lawndaleartcenter.org/
Project Row Houses: http://projectrowhouses.org/
James Turrell’s Skyspace at Rice University: http://skyspace.rice.edu/
Common Bond Cafe and Bakery: http://www.commonbondcafe.com/
The Menil Collection: https://www.menil.org
The Orange Show: http://orangeshow.org/orange-show-monument/
The Beer Can House: http://orangeshow.org/beer-can-house/

Broken Obelisk photo by Runaway Productions
Menil Chapel 1971 interior photo by Middleton

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This week we visit Lenka Clayton, another Pittsburgh based artist whose work finds meaning in ordinary, everyday objects. For her assignment, she asks you to partner with someone and recreate a lost childhood object, using their memory of the object and the materials you have around you.

INSTRUCTIONS - Lost Childhood Object
1. Ask someone to describe an object they made or cherished as a child. Make a mental image of that object
2. Create the object
3. Give the object back to the person (Ideally, you'd do this project in tandem)
4. Document and upload using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Sarah then connects this assignment to contemporary artist Roman Ondak.

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The epicenter of the art world is in Marfa, Texas? We visit this small town where Minimalist artist Donald Judd settled in the 70s, and sowed the seeds for its glorious present, worthy of a pilgrimage. To support our channel, visit: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

Thanks to our Grandmaster of the Arts Indianapolis Homes Realty, and all of our patrons, especially Lynn Gordon, Patrick Hanna, and Constance Urist. Further thanks go to the Judd Foundation, Chinati Foundation, and Ballroom Marfa.

Follow us as we visit:
Judd Foundation: http://juddfoundation.org
Marfa Burrito: https://www.facebook.com/pages..../Marfa-Burrittos/114
Ballroom Marfa: https://ballroommarfa.org/
Wrong Store: http://www.wrongmarfa.com/
Freda: https://shop-freda.com/
Cobra Rock Boot Co: https://cobrarock.com/
Marfa Book Company: http://www.marfabookco.com/
Frama: http://tumbleweedlaundry.com/
Prada Marfa: https://ballroommarfa.org/archive/event/prada-marfa/
Stellina: http://www.stellinamarfa.com/
Do Your Thing Coffee: http://www.doyourthing.us/
Chinati: https://www.chinati.org/
Food Shark: https://www.facebook.com/foodsharkmarfa/


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In which we meet Florian Rivière & Jim Walker and play What, How, Where!: http://[a]www.whathowandwhere.com%2F[/a]

INSTRUCTIONS - What How Where

1. Visit www.whathowandwhere.com and click to receive an instruction

2. Do the instruction and document it using any medium

3. Upload it using #theartassignment

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

Learn more about Florian's work: http://www.florianriviere.fr/
Learn more about Big Car: http://www.bigcar.org/

And click here to buy a book about Florian or a Drift Dice game based on the same ideas: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BigCarCollective