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🦅🍇 Oh no—a crow is trying to steal Jamie’s lunch! Join ABC Mouse, DoReMi, and 123 as they leap into action during recess in this silly, snack-saving adventure. Watch them build a catapult, launch a lunch-saving mission, and give a grumpy crow a super cool makeover with some stylish sunglasses. It’s teamwork, creativity, and just a little bit of crow romance! 😄🎒❤️

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🦆🎶 Sing along with ABCmouse to the classic "Five Little Ducks" song! This fun and educational counting song will help preschoolers practice their numbers as they follow the adventures of the little ducks. Perfect for kids who love to learn through music!

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When art is generated by Artificial Intelligence, what or who can we call the artist? We look to art history to consider the long collaboration between humans and technology. 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 Patrick Hanna, and Constance Urist.

Generate your own Deep Dream image: https://deepdreamgenerator.com/

More about Magenta and Google Brain Team initiatives:
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Sometimes art is paintings, and sometimes it's a chair. Why? Let's learn about "Conceptual Art," where the idea is more important than the form. Oh, and take the PBS Digital Studios survey!: https://to.pbs.org/Survey2018

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Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time, but was also an inveterate womanizer and misogynist. Let's cook our way through moments in Picasso's life and process our conflicted feelings. If you want to see REAL chefs at work, check out Nourish!: https://www.youtube.com/PBSNourish. A new series from PBS Digital Studios about the people, culture and science behind tantalizing southern dishes.

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Correction: The caption for the painting at 0:55 is incorrect and should read "Pablo Picasso, La Torre de Hércules, A Coruña, c. 1895."

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Agnes Martin's minimal paintings reproduce terribly. Their magic does not come though in photos or videos. Guest host John Green discusses Martin's art anyway, how it brilliantly captures emotion itself, and why you should seek it out.

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We visit Assaf Evron in Chicago to consider how photography can help us see the familiar places we visit everyday differently.

INSTRUCTIONS - Blow Up
1. Go to a public place that you pass daily and take a photo, not too close and not too far
2. Download the photo to a computer and look at it for 3 minutes
3. Return to the location and take detail photos of things you noticed while looking at the original
4. Upload your photos and description with #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Assaf's work: https://www.assafevron.com/

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We’re at Mildred’s Lane, a 96-acre site in rural Pennsylvania founded by J. Morgan Puett. Mildred’s Lane is an experiment in living - it's a space where Morgan and her friends collaborate on projects, practice creative domestication, and pay closer attention to every aspect of daily life. Her assignment asks you to do the same by playing a game of Scramble Scrabble Dinner.

INSTRUCTIONS - SCRAMBLE SCRABBLE DINNER
1) Find a nice cloth and sharpie pens for writing.
2) Gather 2 - 6 people. Each player writes their name on the cloth and makes a list from the letters of their name of food items and ways of preparing food.
3) Play a scrabble game with each player taking turns playing a word from their list, rotating the cloth as you go.
4) Keep adding words until you have a combination of ingredients and ways of preparation and all agree a dish is formed. Avoid the expected and embrace oddity. Sketch the dishes as they emerge.
5) Gather your ingredients and make the meal. Prepare and present it artfully.
6) Document the process with photos, video, drawings, or however you like, and share them on your social media platform of choice with #theartassignment.



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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

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 PBS Digital Studio's The Art Assignment asks what the title "curator" really means, both traditionally and as it is used today. Can you be a curator of vintage sneakers? Let's talk about it in the comments.

Artist Maurizio Cattelan duct taped a banana to a wall, titled it "Comedian", and sold 5 editions of the artwork for as much as $150,000 each. Why did it capture our attention, curiosity, and memes? What does it mean? And download the PBS Video App today!: https://www.pbs.org/pbs-video-app/
#banana #comedian #art

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In which we meet with Indianapolis-based artist Lauren Zoll and are challenged to see what we find when we turn OFF our screens.

INSTRUCTIONS - Off

1. Turn off a screen

2. Take a photo of only the screen

3. Make sure to think of color, pattern, and form. Don't include any humans in the frame.

4. Upload it to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment

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

Learn more about Lauren's work: http://www.laurenzoll.com/
And watch another video about her: http://youtu.be/4IU41v7Y9-I

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What is art? How do we define art? In this episode, we explore some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood this thing we call art. Thanks to LEGO® ART for supporting PBS. For more information go to https://lego.build/ArtAssignment.
#art #arthistory #artists

Thanks to our Grandmasters of the Arts Divide By Zero Collection and David Golden, and to all of our patrons, especially Anthony Chivetta, Rich Clarey, Iain Eudailey, Tom Forwood, Patrick Hanna, Andrew Huynh, Eve Leonard, Audrey Mak Tung, David Moore, Jane Quale, Gabriel Civita Ramirez, Andrew Sheeler, Boris Silantiev, Josh Thomas, Constance Urist, and Roberta Zaphiriou. We are more grateful for you than you'll ever know!

Here is a full list of the uncaptioned artworks that appear under quotes in this video: https://docs.google.com/docume....nt/d/1KK2hhgAUAwXOd6

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This week we tackle the intersection of art and our changing climate. Throughout history, art has helped reveal the climate around us and highlight our fragile relationship to it. We look at navigational charts from the Marshall Islands, Katsushika Hokusai’s "Under the Wave off Kanagawa", Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s "Hunters in the Snow", Mali's Great Mosque of Djenné, the Ise Shrine in Japan, steadily sinking Venice, the cave paintings of Lascaux, and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, among others.

Check out Hot Mess to learn about how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves!: https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UCsaEBhRsI6tmmz12f

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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

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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/

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.

And this week I'm featured in Braincraft's video, which you can watch here!: https://youtu.be/trAz4aBAc0k

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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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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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