Make a Book with Meat (or other atypical materials) - 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.
Artist and designer Ben Denzer shares an assignment to make an ATYPICAL BOOK.
What is art? How do we define art?
John Green shares some of his favorite unfinished artworks.
She shares an art assignment on creating your own Theme and Variation Cut-Out.
Allison Smith shares her thoughts and books about art made in adverse circumstances.
What art that brings you comfort right now?
You don't need to be creative or inspired to make art.
We take a close look at her painting The Two Fridas (Las Dos Fridas).
What do we mean when we call an artwork a MASTERPIECE? Who decides which art becomes one?
Video Games are fun, but are they art?
What is Art Therapy? How can you use aspects of it in your next art encounter?
What is it about this artwork that captivated audiences then and now?
Artist Maurizio Cattelan duct taped a banana to a wall and sold 5 editions of the artwork.
How is it changing the way we interpret and interact with art?
We explore his life as a poet and art curator at MoMA.
Corporate lobbies and board rooms are often graced with impressive art, but why?
Host Sarah Urist Green shares 40 reflections about art.
Why Impressionism is interesting and worth your attention and admiration.
Here are tips for how to sound like you understand art.
The life, art, and eating habits of the great Impressionist artist Claude Monet.
Empathy is a term we hear a lot, but what does it mean and how does it work?
Whose Migrant Mother was this?
How Climate Changes Art
There is plenty of art ABOUT space, but this video explores art ACTUALLY IN space.
What Does Resistance Look Like?
When we heard there was a video game about art and curating, we had to give it a try.
There is a huge range of ways that gender has been understood in the history of art.
Should Art Be Publicly Funded?
Migration is central to human experience, and art history reflects that.
Explore the art and life of Warhol through the food he depicted and the food he ate.
The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. We take you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete.
