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.
#artbooks #bookbinding

Learn more about Ben’s work: http://bendenzer.com/
Learn more about the Center for Book Arts: http://centerforbookarts.org/

A GUIDE TO BASIC BOOKBINDING TECHNIQUES:
https://drive.google.com/file/....d/1gMy5mA33bRXniOVfq

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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:
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http://www.erinellenkelly.com/

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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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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

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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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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

Thanks to our Grandmaster of the Arts Indianapolis Homes Realty, and all of our patrons, especially Patrick Hanna, Constance Urist, and Chad Crews.

Assistance provided by: Futurist Friend Nichole Hicks.

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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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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

Find the full "HOW TO APPRECIATE ART" course here: http://www.brighttrip.com/sarah/yt
#art #arthistory #brighttrip #travel #museums

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Thanks to Mark Olsen for editing this video!
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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.

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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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)

After more than 6 years and 220+ videos, it's time for The Art Assignment take a break, slow down production, and reassess what educational art content should look like in 2020 and beyond. Sarah Urist Green talks about what she's learned while making this channel and what she'd like to do next (after sleeping for a while).

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Pre-order our book YOU ARE AN ARTIST (which includes new assignments!) here: http://bit.ly/2kplj2h Sarah and John answer your questions and walk through the many ways to experience and participate in The Art Assignment. They also announce a new Art Assignment Response blog where you can find all past responses categorized by assignment: http://all.theartassignment.com.

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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 legitimacy of celebrity artists, the embarrassment of being called an "artist", why we laugh at art, and more. Keep the calls coming - leave us a message at 901-602-ARTY!

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We meet Brooklyn-based artist Nina Katchadourian in Lawrence, Kansas, at the former home of American writer William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997). Nina takes us on her journey of sorting Burroughs's book collection and challenges you to sort some books yourself!

INSTRUCTIONS - Sorted Books
1. Choose a person you know or would like to know better
2. Take a look at/through their library
3. Make 3 stacks of books to develop a portrait of the person
4. Upload it to your social media platform of choice using #theartassignment
5. Fame and glory (your work might be featured in a future episode)


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Space travel is infamously bad for your health. But it turns out that in some very specific cases, space travel may actually be beneficial. Like by strengthening your bones, or repairing your DNA.

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To explain how the world works, scientists occasionally have an idea that — upon further testing — turns out to be wrong. From rays that carry coldness instead of heat, to a neighboring star that causes regular mass extinctions on Earth, here are 5 things that some natural philosophers and scientists thought could be real.

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