The Art Assignment is an educational video series hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green. We explore art and art history through the lens of things happening today.
The Art Assignment is an educational video series hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green. We explore art and art history through the lens of things happening today.
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Seasons (7)
Season 2014
20 Feb 2014 – 18 Dec 2014 · 28 episodes
1Meet in the Middle | Douglas Paulson and Christopher Robbins20 Feb 2014
2Stakeout! | Deb Sokolow27 Feb 2014
3Make an Intimate, Indispensable GIF | Toyin Odutola13 Mar 2014
4Make art from something you've never seen. | David Brooks27 Mar 2014
5Find the quietest place. | Jace Clayton10 Apr 2014
6Draw a Psychological Landscape | Robyn O'Neil24 Apr 2014
7Play a game of What, How, Where | Florian Rivière & Jim Walker8 May 2014
8When Art Breaks the Law15 May 2014
9Walk On It | Kate Gilmore22 May 2014
10How to Visit an Art Museum13 Jun 2014
11Take a photo of a reflection. | Lauren Zoll19 Jun 2014
12Make a Rug | Fritz Haeg3 Jul 2014
13How to Learn About Contemporary Art10 Jul 2014
14Make art like someone you admire. | Peggy and Garry Noland17 Jul 2014
15The Art Assignment: Vidcon Edition24 Jul 2014
16Make an imprint. | Sopheap Pich14 Aug 2014
17Air Guitar: Book Club # 121 Aug 2014
18Sorted Books | Nina Katchadourian28 Aug 2014
19Find Your Band | Bang on A Can11 Sep 2014
20Photo a friend. | Tanja Hollander25 Sep 2014
21How to Critique9 Oct 2014
22Create a desktop monument. | Lee Boroson16 Oct 2014
23Leave a message for "The One That Got Away" | Oliver Blank30 Oct 2014
24Please Do Not Touch6 Nov 2014
25Use video for an expanded moment. | Jan Tichy14 Feb 2016
26Take a photo of a family member you don't know very well. | Laurel Nakadate4 Dec 2014
27What's a Curator?11 Dec 2014
28How do you convey emotion with furniture? | Christoph Niemann18 Dec 2014
Season 2015
8 Jan 2015 – 17 Dec 2015 · 36 episodes
1Play a game of "Movement Telephone" | Ryan McNamara8 Jan 2015
2Facilitate an Encounter / Encuentro | Dignicraft22 Jan 2015
3Notes from New Orleans29 Jan 2015
4Become Someone Else | Tameka Norris15 Feb 2015
5Produce an Assembly Line | Bob Snead19 Feb 2015
6Use creativity to transform a discarded object. | Brandan Odums5 Mar 2015
7Ten Ideas That led to a Different Idea13 Mar 2015
8Customize a common object. | Brian McCutcheon19 Mar 2015
9Collaborate With Son Lux | Ryan Lott2 Apr 2015
10The One That Got Away - Update16 Apr 2015
11Declare your cause. | Allison Smith7 May 2015
12Art As Experience: Book Club #214 May 2015
13Make a Thing | Jonn Herschend & Will Rogan21 May 2015
14The Case For Andy Warhol28 May 2015
15Explore a physical boundary. | Zarouhie Abdalian11 Jun 2015
16Become a Sci-Fi Character | Desirée Holman25 Jun 2015
17The Case For Mark Rothko2 Jul 2015
18Create an embarrassing object. | Geof Oppenheimer9 Jul 2015
19Do a surface test. | Kim Beck30 Jul 2015
20VidCon Makes a Rug6 Aug 2015
21Connect with your neighbor through film. | Jon Rubin13 Aug 2015
22I Could Do That20 Aug 2015
23Create someone's Lost Childhood Object. | Lenka Clayton27 Aug 2015
24Can You Become Someone Else?3 Sep 2015
25Host a Scramble Scrabble Dinner. | J. Morgan Puett10 Sep 2015
26What is Mildred's Lane?17 Sep 2015
27Create paper weavings. | Michelle Grabner25 Sep 2015
28Make a fake flyer. | Nathaniel Russell8 Oct 2015
29What is ArtPrize?15 Oct 2015
30Make It, then Break It. | Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani22 Oct 2015
31Fix an object you feel bad for. | Diana Shpungin5 Nov 2015
32Fierce Women of Art12 Nov 2015
33Use the Present Perimeter to create art. | Jonathan Nesci19 Nov 2015
34Be a news photographer.3 Dec 2015
35Art Trip: Twin Cities10 Dec 2015
36Construct a landscape. | Paula McCartney17 Dec 2015
Season 2016
7 Jan 2016 – 22 Dec 2016 · 38 episodes
1The Case For Kanye7 Jan 2016
2Caption this painting. | David Rathman14 Jan 2016
3Art Trip: Washington D.C.22 Jan 2016
4Copy a Copy a Copy | Molly Springfield28 Jan 2016
5Public Art Study: Fred Wilson's E Pluribus Unum4 Feb 2016
6The Case for Yoko Ono18 Feb 2016
7Explore a place you see every day. | Assaf Evron3 Mar 2016
8Art Trip: Chicago10 Mar 2016
9The Case for Minimalism24 Mar 2016
10Body in Place - Maria Gaspar31 Mar 2016
11Why Murals?14 Apr 2016
12Art Trip: Richmond, Virginia21 Apr 2016
13Measure your history with material. | Sonya Clark28 Apr 2016
14Fierce Women of Art 212 May 2016
15Art Assignment Marathon19 May 2016
16Conjure a studio. | Hope Ginsburg26 May 2016
17The Art History of the Selfie2 Jun 2016
18Art Trip: Los Angeles9 Jun 2016
19Create a vehicular palette. | Jesse Sugarmann16 Jun 2016
20Art Happens at VidCon7 Jul 2016
21Art Trip: Tijuana14 Jul 2016
22What's Your Problem? | Ghana Think Tank21 Jul 2016
23The Case for Abstraction28 Jul 2016
24Embarrassing Object Empathy4 Aug 2016
25Exquisite Corpse | Hugo Crosthwaite11 Aug 2016
26Vanessa Hill of BrainCraft25 Aug 2016
27The Case for Performance Art8 Sep 2016
28Try combinatory play with books. | Pablo Helguera15 Sep 2016
29The Case for Ai Weiwei6 Oct 2016
30Draw a shape that represents you. | Tschabalala Self13 Oct 2016
31Five Favorite Works of Art with Mike Rugnetta20 Oct 2016
32Public Art Trip: New York City27 Oct 2016
33Complain creatively. | The Guerrilla Girls4 Nov 2016
34The Guerrilla Girls Get Shut Out At Frieze Art Fair11 Nov 2016
35Art Trip: London17 Nov 2016
36Try these proposals! | Peter Liversidge2 Dec 2016
37Cases for Political Art15 Dec 2016
38Landscape Archaeology | Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly22 Dec 2016
Season 2017
19 Jan 2017 – 28 Dec 2017 · 26 episodes
1Bring a sound to life. | Jamal Cyrus19 Jan 2017
2Art Trip: Houston26 Jan 2017
3Create an imaginary friend. | JooYoung Choi2 Feb 2017
4Art Trip: Indianapolis9 Feb 2017
5Explore variations of white. | Odili Donald Odita16 Feb 2017
6The Case for Surrealism16 Mar 2017
7Better Know the Mona Lisa6 Apr 2017
8Art Cooking: Futurist Meat Sculpture20 Apr 2017
9The Case for Copying4 May 2017
10Better Know the Great Wave19 May 2017
11Art Cooking: Georgia O'Keeffe11 Jun 2017
12The Case for Land Art15 Jun 2017
13Five Favorite Works of Art with April Richardson29 Jun 2017
14Art Trip: Marfa13 Jul 2017
15Art or Prank?27 Jul 2017
16Art Cooking: Frida Kahlo10 Aug 2017
17Five Favorite Works of Art with Jon Cozart24 Aug 2017
18Art Trip: Venice Biennale8 Sep 2017
19Five Favorite Works of Art with Hannah Hart21 Sep 2017
20Art Trip: Columbus, Indiana5 Oct 2017
21Art Cooking: Bone Meal20 Oct 2017
22Art is Pretentious*2 Nov 2017
23Do Machines Make Art?16 Nov 2017
24Art Trip: PST: LA/LA30 Nov 2017
25The Case for Jackson Pollock14 Dec 2017
26Art Cooking: Salvador Dali28 Dec 2017
Season 2018
18 Jan 2018 – 20 Dec 2018 · 24 episodes
1Better Know: The Starry Night18 Jan 2018
2Art Cooking: Vincent Van Gogh1 Feb 2017
3Art Must Be Beautiful15 Feb 2018
4The Case for Museums1 Mar 2018
5Do Not Try to Eat This22 Mar 2018
6Art + Taxes = The Dirty Truth5 Apr 2018
7Spiral Jetty, Sun Tunnels, and Salt19 Apr 2018
8Better Know: The Kiss by Gustav Klimt3 May 2018
9Why You Don't Like Art History17 May 2018
10The Case For Nudity31 May 2018
11Remake the Met14 Jun 2018
12BUTTER + EGGS = ART, sometimes28 Jun 2018
13Trending Artists of the 17th Century12 Jul 2018
14The Case for Conceptual Art26 Jul 2018
15Better Know Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère9 Aug 2018
16Art Cooking PICASSO23 Aug 2018
17Love the Art, Hate the Artist6 Sep 2018
18The Case for Realism20 Sep 2018
19The Myth of the Tortured Artist4 Oct 2018
20ART TRIP: DETROIT18 Oct 2018
21Behind the Banksy Stunt1 Nov 2018
22Art Cooking: Dutch and Flemish Still Life Painting20 Nov 2018
23Which is the Real Girl with a Pearl Earring?3 Dec 2018
24Art I Can't Show You20 Dec 2018
Season 2019
3 Jan 2019 – 19 Dec 2019 · 22 episodes
1Art You Can't Get To3 Jan 2019
2The Case for Video Art17 Jan 2019
3The Truth of the Tortured Artist31 Jan 2019
4Artists in Love13 Feb 2019
5What This Photo Doesn't Show28 Feb 2019
6Art + Life Rules from a Nun14 Mar 2019
7Eat Like Andy Warhol11 Apr 2019
8Art about Migration25 Apr 2019
9Should Art Be Publicly Funded?8 May 2019
10What Art tells us about Gender23 May 2019
11A Video Game about Art?6 Jun 2019
12What Does Resistance Look Like?20 Jun 2019
13Art We Launched Into Space11 Jul 2019
14How Climate Changes Art25 Jul 2019
15Whose Migrant Mother was this?8 Aug 2019
16Art and Empathy22 Aug 2019
17What Did Monet Eat in a Day?19 Sep 2019
18How to Sound like you Understand Art3 Oct 2019
19The Case for Impressionism17 Oct 2019
20My Top 40 Art Reflections31 Oct 2019
21Why Do Corporations Buy Art?14 Nov 2019
22Is Instagram Changing Art?19 Dec 2019
Season 2020
3 Jan 2020 – 6 Aug 2020 · 14 episodes
1The $150,000 Banana3 Jan 2020
2Why Is This Woman in the Jungle?16 Jan 2020
3Art Therapize Yourself30 Jan 2020
4Having a Coke with Frank O'Hara13 Feb 2020
5The Case for Video Games27 Feb 2020
6What Makes a Masterpiece?12 Mar 2020
7What this painting tells us about Frida Kahlo26 Mar 2020
8Creativity is Overrated14 Apr 2020
9Art that brings me comfort7 May 2020
10Art Made in Adversity21 May 2020
11Make a Cut-Out with Cécile McLorin Salvant11 Jun 2020
12Art That Was Never Finished25 Jun 2020
13The Definition of Art23 Jul 2020
14Make a Book with Meat (or other atypical materials) ft. Ben Denzer6 Aug 2020