Many of us who make and appreciate art spend loads of time on Instagram. How is it changing the way we interpret and interact with art? And is it actually changing the art that gets made? Let's find out. #art #instagramart #instagram

Thanks to our Grandmasters of the Arts Vincent Apa, Josh Thomas, 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.

Studies mentioned:
Budge, K. (2017), Objects in Focus: Museum Visitors and Instagram. Curator, 60: 67-85. doi:10.1111/cura.12183

Alixandra Barasch, Gal Zauberman, Kristin Diehl. How the Intention to Share Can Undermine Enjoyment: Photo-Taking Goals and Evaluation of Experiences. Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 44, Issue 6, April 2018, p 1220–1237, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucx112

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Impressionism is one of the best known and loved movements in Art History, but why? We present a case for why Impressionism is interesting and worth your attention and admiration, beyond the famous names behind it of Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissaro, Gustave Caillebotte, Paul Cézanne, et al.
#impressionism #art #arthistory

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h This week we try our hand at one of those top 10 lists we keep seeing on the Interwebs these days. Specifically, we're going to talk about ten ideas that led to the idea of this very show! We'll look at how ideas are cyclical - informed by ideas that precede them AND informing those that follow. And we'll talk about how everything from meme culture and the maker movement to Sports Racers and Yoko Ono, got us to this point. Tell us in the comments, where it's going to go!

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Was your Art History class an endless succession of names and dates and movements? Art History doesn't have to be that way! We discuss new (and much more compelling) approaches the study of art. Learn more about Civilizations on PBS and how you can watch!: http://www.pbs.org/civilizations/home/

Also check out John Berger's Ways of Seeing (I know, I mispronounced it, it's Berger like merger): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk

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This week we meet with Maria Gaspar, an artist deeply invested in her community on the west side of Chicago. For her assignment, she asks you to engage with your community by adding yourself to the picture.

INSTRUCTIONS - Body in Place
1. Choose a location that is visible to you but seemingly invisible to others
2. Think about this location and what it represents
3. Use your body to create an intervention that creates a new story of that location
4. Take a photo + upload using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Maria's work: https://mariagaspar.com/

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In which we meet Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich and receive the assignment to make an IMPRINT. We filmed with Sopheap at Indianapolis Fabrications while he was in town installing a new work for the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

INSTRUCTIONS - Imprint
1. Choose an object you find interesting
2. Cut it, making a flat surface
3. Dip the cut surface in paint
4. Press it on to a piece of paper repeatedly to make an imprint
5. Upload to you social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
6. Fame and glory (your work may be featured in the future video)

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h We spent a week in Grand Rapids absorbing everything that was ArtPrize 2015, the world’s largest art competition. Here’s a taste of what we found.

Many thanks to Kevin Buist for talking to us about the event!

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In which Los Angeles-based artist Robyn O'Neil challenges you to draw a psychological landscape.

INSTRUCTIONS - Psychological Landscape

1. Get a piece of paper and something to draw with

2. Create a ground on your picture plane

3. Populate the ground with figures and give them human-like characteristics.

4. Upload it using #theartassignment

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

Learn more about Robyn's work here: http://www.robynoneil.com/
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Mentions include:
Bob Ross: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLO7tCdBVrA
Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/Colle....ctions/search-the-co
Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/....cave-of-forgotten-dr
Chauvet Cave paintings: http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/

The Art Assignment, launching early 2014, is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. We will take you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete.

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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

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.

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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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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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"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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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!
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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)

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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.

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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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We met Hannah Hart in her studio to talk about everything from painting to poetry -- here are Hannah's five favorite works of art:

1) Little By Little by Hannah Gelb (available here as a print! https://store.dftba.com/produc....ts/little-by-little-
2) The video Why Trust Is Worth It by Ze Frank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWypWe9UAhQ
3) Biwa Lake Tree, Study 2 by Michael Kenna
4) Little Red Riding Hood by Cory Godbey
5) Any poem by Mary Oliver

Thanks, Hannah. We (h)art you.

Find Hannah around the internet:
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David Rathman’s paintings pair atmospheric landscapes with carefully selected phrases, playing with the relationship between text and image. This week, he created a painting for you to caption.

INSTRUCTIONS - CAPTION CONTEST
1. Add text, preferably handwritten, to Rathman's painting
2. Print out the image below and write on it, or create your writing separately, scan it and add it to the image digitally
3. Document your text and image combination and share it with us using #theartassignment
4. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

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