You've likely seen this glassy-eyed late 19th Century barmaid before, but what can we make of this painting today? Let's explore Edouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. You can go to https://wix.com/go/ArtAssignment to get started on your website!

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h We continue our stay at Mildred's Lane and talk to it's Director and Ambassador of Entanglement J. Morgan Puett about it's origins, it's goals and how her installation art practice influences her vision for the site.

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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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We explore the recipes of artist Frida Kahlo, whose work celebrated Mexico's history, vivid colors, and it's FOOD. On the menu: 1) Chiles Stuffed with Cheese aka Chiles Rellenos 2) White Rice with Plantains 3) Nopales Salad 4) Tequila.

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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/
And follow her on twitter! @Robyn_ONeil

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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/

Dada was a movement known for collage, upturned urinals, and its radicality--a reaction to the horrors of World War I. It was NOT known for its food, but in 1961 artist Man Ray offered this "Menu for a Dadaist Day," and we cooked it for you.

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To learn more about Dada and access original sources visit International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries: https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/

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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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This week we meet D.C. based artist Molly Springfield. Molly's graphite drawings transform texts into images, and her assignment for you asks you to consider how repeating a process can turn a copy into an original.

INSTRUCTIONS - Copy A Copy A Copy
1. Select a page from a book and make a photocopy of it
2. Make a photocopy of the photocopy and make changes, if you like, by enlarging, reducing, etc.
3. Repeat step #2 until the original has been transformed into a new image
4. Upload the final copy using #theartassignment (Extra credit if you make a work in a new medium!)
5. Fame and glory (Your work might be in a future episode)

Learn more about Molly's work:
https://mollyspringfield.com/home.html

We then discussed artists like Mel Bochner that used the photocopier in their conceptual art since its beginnings.

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Resistance isn't always visible, but when we can see it in art, what does it look like? Step back through global art history and look at Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace, Henry Oscar One Bull’s Custer’s War, Goya's Disasters of War, and Kara Walker's Darkytown Rebellion. Each revealing in disparate ways the experience of those who have struggled against systems of power.

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/channe....l/UC3R-xanNgtoa8b7gp

Thanks to our Grandmaster of the Arts Vincent Apa, and all of our patrons, especially Frame Monster Design Laboratory, Lynn Gordon, Patrick Hanna, Nichole Hicks, Nicholas Huynh, Eve Leonard, David Moore, Jane Quale, Constance Urist, Nicholas Xu. To support our channel, visit: http://www.patreon.com/artassignment.

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This week we meet with experimental musicians Mark Stewart and Julia Wolfe at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, an amazing contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. They give us the challenge to FIND YOUR BAND.

INSTRUCTIONS - Find Your Band
1. Go through your day and notice all the sounds around you
2. Choose a group of those sounds to be your band
3. Join the band!
4. Record or document what happens and upload to your social media platform of choice with #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be in a future episode)

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Sarah and John reflect on the first year of PBS Digital Studios' The Art Assignment, and talk about viewer-submitted responses to the question: What does the Art Assignment mean to you? We are so grateful for all of those who responded and who participate in the Art Assignment community.

Many thanks to all the fine people who make this series possible: PBS Digital Studios and Matthew Vree, Mark Olsen, Brandon Brungard, Molly Schwartz, Dana Schechter, Jason Weidner, Zulaiha Razak, Stan Muller, Elise Lockwood, and Meredith Danko.

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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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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?

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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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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/

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.

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#art #arthistory #coritakent

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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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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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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

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.
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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

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