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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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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h We interview the remarkable Vanessa Hill, creator of BrainCraft, a production of PBS Digital Studios, which explores psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do. And we challenge Vanessa to respond to our recent art assignment Conjure a Studio offered by Hope Ginsburg: http://youtu.be/_BCII40trPw.

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h We interview the remarkable Vanessa Hill, creator of BrainCraft, a production of PBS Digital Studios, which explores psychology, neuroscience & why we act the way we do. And we challenge Vanessa to respond to our recent art assignment Conjure a Studio offered by Hope Ginsburg: http://youtu.be/_BCII40trPw.

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When we heard there was a video game about art and curating, we had to give it a try. Watch us play Occupy White Walls and build and curate an art gallery of our dreams (well, almost). And don't forget to check out PBS's new show Monstrum!: https://www.youtube.com/monstrumpbs

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h This week Sarah and John discuss some of their favorite responses to Nina Katchadourian's assignment Sorted Books. Thanks to everyone for your excellent submissions!

You can watch the Sorted Books assignment video here: http://youtu.be/A24MRdNMOIA

Featured in this video are:
Kyle: http://bit.ly/17zgZB1
Michelle: http://bit.ly/1GvYUA8
Luisa: http://bit.ly/1A7ldGw
Meredith: http://bit.ly/1FXMhQX
Kelsea: http://bit.ly/1vzFsBg
Stephanie: http://bit.ly/1DUHn4W
Ana: http://bit.ly/1EsLd5F
Erin: http://bit.ly/1zIOI2B
mundane epiphanies: http://bit.ly/17zhf35
Rachel: http://bit.ly/1wpj9yW
w-ndering: http://bit.ly/1wpj9yW
Sierra: http://bit.ly/1GvZnC9
Krisis: http://bit.ly/1zffwWO
the-rotten-apple: http://bit.ly/1Bvinm0
Aude Odeh: http://bit.ly/1ArV1vd
Elisabeth: http://bit.ly/1EsLs0w
newbooksmell: http://bit.ly/1DqPzbQ
novacain: http://bit.ly/1BviL3Q
dafidaf: http://bit.ly/18mf18c
articulationsvlog: http://bit.ly/1zffEG0
Narjes: http://bit.ly/1zffG0D
David: http://bit.ly/1zIQ2Cs
perpetuallytransient: http://bit.ly/1FtOhg6
charmingpplincardigans: http://bit.ly/18mg87H
ablitheringrecluse: http://bit.ly/1zIQikW
Nancy: http://youtu.be/OP0uF6rhvy4
Matt Vree: http://bit.ly/1DqRGwf
Kevin: http://bit.ly/1FXMnI1
nessie728: http://bit.ly/1JN8kMO
wolfs-toeter: http://bit.ly/1DbxaNy
ceci-nestpas-un-blog: http://bit.ly/1BVR7wz
hilikusbree: http://bit.ly/1akWUjv
ragazzadellaluna: http://bit.ly/1akWUjv
Marian: http://bit.ly/1weL92G
headless queen: http://bit.ly/18mhijA

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In which Sarah and John answer questions about The Art Assignment submitted by viewers. Oh, and we also show a a few Intimate, Indispensable GIFs!

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In which The Art Assignment visits New York-based artist Toyin Odutola and receives the challenge to create a GIF! But not just any GIF--it must articulate something intimate that is indispensable to you.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Think of something intimate that is indispensable to you. (It doesn't have to be a body part. It can be an object, place, memory, anything.)

2. Depict it in the form of a GIF. You don't have to make drawings-you can use photographs, make a sculpture, or whatever you like.

3. Upload it using #theartassignment

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

Find and follow Toyin online: @obia_thethird, toyinodutola.com
and learn more about her work here: http://www.jackshainman.com/artists/toyin-odutola/

Exploring the intersection of art and food, we prepare two dishes from the 1930s devised by the pasta-hating Italian Futurists. BEHOLD: 1) MEAT SCULPTURE and 2) LIKE A CLOUD. To support our channel, or at least consider it: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment

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Assistance provided by: Futurist Friend Nichole Hicks.

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Today we meet with artist and musician Nathaniel Russell. Nat's work plays with the divide between real and imagined, making posters and flyers for events that may or may not exist. His assignment asks you to make a fake flyer and share it with the world too.

INSTRUCTIONS - Fake Flyer
1. Make a flyer that gives advice, shares something about your life, or promotes an imagined event
2. Put it out in to the world
3. Upload a printable copy using #theartassignment. Bonus points for uploading a photo of the flyer posted in the real world.
4. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)



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What is white? What is any color? Philadelphia-based abstract painter Odili Donald Odita talks with us about his work and offers us an assignment about color.

INSTRUCTIONS - Whitescapes
1. Find a white object and place it next to another white object. Compare how the two colors change.
2. Describe the difference in color
3. Change the lighting and take note of how the colors change
4. Name the colors in the new lighting
5. Share your findings in whatever way you see fit, using #theartassignment

Recommended reading:
- David Batchelor, Chromophobia (2000)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)
- Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (1963)

This assignment was filmed in Indianapolis at the Deborah Berke designed Global Distribution Headquarters for Cummins, Inc., and the Julia M. Carson Transit Center.

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Who are your influences? Who’s asking? Peggy Noland, a fashion designer, and Garry Noland, an artist who happens to be her father. We visit Peggy's shop in Kansas City, Missouri, and she and her dad give us the assignment to make an artwork in the style of someone whose work you admire.

INSTRUCTIONS - UNDER INFLUENCE

1. Choose an artist or a maker.

2. Get to know their work and practice.

3. Make something in that style.

4. Upload it to the social media platform of your choice using #theartassignment, telling us who you’ve chosen and how they’ve influenced you.

5. Fame & glory. (Your work might be featured in an upcoming episode.)

Learn More:
Peggy Noland:
http://peggynoland.com/

Garry Noland:
https://garrynolandart.com/home.html

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Video Games are fun, but are they art? Heck yes. We explore the history and present of video games and what sets them apart as a means of artistic expression. To learn about many other alternative means of expression, preorder a copy of You Are An Artist: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h
#videogames #gaming #videoart

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 Sarah and John review your submissions to Sopheap Pich's Art Assignment "Imprint" while doing the assignment themselves.

You can watch the Imprint Art Assignment video here: http://bit.ly/1uasNPl

Thanks so much everyone for your submissions. Those featured in this video:

Zoe: http://wayward-makes-me-cry.tu....mblr.com/post/950804
One Eyed Husky: http://oneeyedhusky.tumblr.com..../post/94948393001/fo
Meg & Lily: http://megmotherwort.tumblr.co....m/post/98262620509/t
http://megmotherwort.tumblr.co....m/post/98260112969/t
What Is Summer: http://what-is-summer.tumblr.c....om/post/106442915836
Zoosemiotics: http://zoosemiotics.tumblr.com..../post/94784183526/ar
Bleedinghorsecarousel: http://bleedinghorsecarousel.t....umblr.com/post/96204
Eleraffe: http://eleraffeuniverse.tumblr.....com/post/9475362917
Rachael: http://rachaelmakesthings.tumb....lr.com/post/95242650
Hkdolman: http://hkdolman.tumblr.com/pos....t/95945663888/i-foun
Yes4poe: http://yes4poe.tumblr.com/post..../97744999377/imprint
Jo Goren: http://mamascookie.tumblr.com/....post/95153856268/the
Pennilane: http://imgur.com/a/DpPux
Bloodsugar-suckerfish: http://bloodsugar-suckerfish.t....umblr.com/post/95486
Katie M: http://katieeeea.tumblr.com/po....st/94817796801/the-a
Yiyaandthewalls: http://yiyaandthewalls.tumblr.....com/post/94836971755
Leonie: http://onceuponaspacetime.tumb....lr.com/post/94983889
R S Thomason: http://rsthomason.tumblr.com/p....ost/95219936828/thes
Cat: http://wickedwriterfaerie.tumb....lr.com/post/95471204

Artists have abandoned artworks for many reasons throughout history. Guest host John Green shares some of his favorite unfinished artworks and explains why they resonate with him so deeply. Featuring work by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Edgar Degas, Alice Neel, Kerry James Marshall, and very many presidential portraits.

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This week we speak to collaborating artists Mariam Ghani and Erin Ellen Kelly at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and learn about their approach to learning about and working with landscapes.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Choose a location you find intriguing.
2. Research the historical uses of the place. Talk to people to find what the contemporary uses are.
3. Spend time being in the space.
4. Make something based on what you've learned. Share it with us using #theartassignment.

Learn more about Mariam and Erin:
https://www.mariamghani.com/
http://www.erinellenkelly.com/

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You Are an Artist is out in the world! Order here: https://bitly.com/2kplj2h. And join our virtual book tour: http://www.theartassignment.com/tour. You don't need to be creative or inspired to make art, but you may need the advice of artists, and perhaps a prompt! Show us your work on Instagram and Twitter with #youareanartist.

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Thanks to our Grandmasters of the Arts Tyler Calvert-Thompson, Divide By Zero Collection, David Golden, and Ernest Wolfe, and to all of our patrons, especially Anthony Chivetta, Rich Clarey, Iain Eudaily, Tom Forwood, Patrick Hanna, Andrew Huynh, Eve Leonard, David Moore, Jane Quale, Gabriel Civita Ramirez, Andrew Sheeler, Josh Thomas, Constance Urist, Nicholas Xu, and Roberta Zaphiriou. To support our channel, visit: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

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We introduce you to the talented and amazing JooYoung Choi, who shares tales of her fictional realm The Cosmic Womb and beckons us to create our own IMAGINARY FRIEND.

INSTRUCTIONS - Imaginary Friend
1. Make an imaginary friend using any medium you like
2. Introduce that friend to others
3. Share your friend with us using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about JooYoung's work:
http://www.anyatishgallery.com..../content/jooyoung-ch

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