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

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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!)
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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 the Center for Book Arts: http://centerforbookarts.org/

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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
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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.

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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:
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Garry Noland:
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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/

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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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)

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This week we meet with artist and designer Jonathan Nesci at the First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana. Jonathan uses systems of design to experiment with new materials and processes, and his assignment for you invites you to do the same by combining a set of particular shapes into different variations.

INSTRUCTIONS - Present Perimeter
1. Create a work of art using the Present Perimeter System (1 hexagon, 3 half hexagons, 3 rhombuses, and 3 triangles)
2. Document your work and upload using #theartassignment
3. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

Sarah also talks about how parameters and rules can release creativity in art and uses Sol LeWitt as an example.

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Endometriosis is a disease that affects about one in ten women, and comes from tissue inside the uterus making its way out. But it turns out that's not the only way to get it, because there are people without uteruses who have it too. Here's what science has to say about the paradoxical patients who have endometriosis, no uterus required.

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Glass is made of sand, which is a kind of rock. But glass is transparent, and rocks aren’t transparent. What’s up with that? Why is glass clear? And why can I sit on a chair? And why can we touch anything? Today we zoom down to the weird world of electron clouds and quantum touching to find the answers.

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You've felt cold before. Sometimes it's cold outside. But what if I told you that "cold" isn't real? There's no substance or quantity called "cold" in science. We can't measure the amount of "cold" in something. Instead it's about what's NOT there. In this week's video, learn the difference between heat and temperature, why a wind makes us feel colder, and what it's like to live as a mass of jiggling atoms. This is the physics of cold
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Density of the interstellar medium: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium

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Our bodies do a lot of weird things, and many of them are completely involuntary. Why do we often jerk our bodies awake right before falling asleep? Why do we yawn? Why do we hiccup? Why do some people sneeze when they look at the sun? And why does your eye twitch? This week we'll look at the science behind these crazy involuntary behaviors!

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Yawns: http://www.bbc.com/future/stor....y/20140811-warning-t

Eye twitches: http://www.straightdope.com/co....lumns/read/1603/what

Sun sneezes: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm....c/articles/PMC282140

Hiccups: http://www.bbc.com/future/stor....y/20140127-do-hiccup

Sleep twitches: http://www.bbc.com/future/stor....y/20120522-suffer-fr
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The James Webb Telescope just took a photo of a newly discovered exoplanet. Exciting stuff but the raw image just looks like a small, faint dot—not a fully detailed world. The question is, just how big would a telescope need to be to actually see an alien world in detail? Let’s explore diffraction, resolution, wild telescope tech, and one mind-blowing idea that could change everything.

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This is the first-ever video of what we’re calling the "hermit crab caterpillar"! We’re pretty sure this strange caterpillar is a NEW SPECIES. We went to the Peruvian Amazon to see amazing things, but we never expected this :)
But that makes me wonder: What *is* a species anyway? And how do you know if you’ve found a new species?

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Mayden, R. L. (1997). A hierarchy of species concepts: the denouement in the saga of the species problem. In M. F. Claridge, H. A. Dawah & M. R. Wilson (eds.), Species: The units of diversity,. Chapman & Hall. pp. 381–423.

Sutton, G., & Dickson, G. (1965). Interbreeding of the Eastern and Western Meadowlarks in Central Oklahoma. The Southwestern Naturalist, 10(4), 307-310. doi:10.2307/3669307

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Having bones is pretty cool. They make our blood, let us hear, and keep us from being just a squishy puddle on the floor. But for every species with bones, there are at least 20 species on Earth with exoskeletons instead. And those exoskeleton animals are incredibly tough and strong. So why don’t WE have our skeletons on the outside? This is the story of bones!

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Physics Girl explores how We’ll Find the Aliens in Our Solar System!
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Looking up at the stars makes you wonder: what and who is out there? And why haven’t we seen any other intelligent civilizations given the vast size and age of the universe? They’re complicated questions and although we haven’t met any other space-faring species we do have a way of calculating just how many alien civilizations might be out there as well as some rather frightening ideas as to why we might not have met them.

This video is a bit different from most It's Okay To Be Smart videos. It's part of a new PBS miniseries called STELLAR, done in collaboration with Matt O’Dowd from PBS Space Time and Dianna Cowern from Physics Girl. Over six episodes we travel to telescopes, go inside space research centers, and chat with amazing scientists to bring you the most exciting stories about space.

**I figure out how we took a picture of a Black Hole with a telescope the size of Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUpKta9yfCk&t=237s

**Matt O’Dowd exploring the oldest quasar ever seen at the Gemini Telescope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqCPnXHKO5c

**Physics Girl visits LIGO to learn about gravitational waves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtp71NT0GNg

You'll be able to see future episodes on the Physics Girl, Space Time and It’s Okay to be Smart YouTube channels, as well as the PBS Digital Studios Facebook page.

Stellar is a part of the PBS Summer of Space. They'll be lots of awesome space related content all summer long on PBS. See what's happening at https://www.pbs.org/summer-of-space/

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