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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.

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.
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Artist and designer Ben Denzer shares an assignment to make an ATYPICAL BOOK.
What is art? How do we define art?
She shares an art assignment on creating your own Theme and Variation Cut-Out.
John Green shares some of his favorite unfinished artworks.
What art that brings you comfort right now?
Allison Smith shares her thoughts and books about art made in adverse circumstances.
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?
We explore his life as a poet and art curator at MoMA.
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?
Corporate lobbies and board rooms are often graced with impressive art, but why?
Host Sarah Urist Green shares 40 reflections about art.
The life, art, and eating habits of the great Impressionist artist Claude Monet.
Why Impressionism is interesting and worth your attention and admiration.
Here are tips for how to sound like you understand art.
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.
Art + Life Rules from a Nun
Guest host John Green delves into the real story behind this iconic photograph.
Art History of full of amazing artist couples.
The Truth of the Tortured Artist
What is video art?
Scientists left a plastic bust of Lenin at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.
John Green discusses how Agnes Martin's paintings brilliantly capture emotion.
A look at "Girl with the Pearl Earring," with the use of innovative technology.
The good life is on display in 17th Century Dutch and Flemish still life paintings.
Banksy shredded his artwork the moment after it sold at auction.
Extras
On this trip, we focus on the abundant public art around New York City.
This week Mike Rugnetta joins us to share five of his favorite works of art.
If you were a shape, what shape would you be?
Who is Ai Weiwei? And why is he considered one of the most renowned artists of our time?
This week we meet Pablo Helguera, an artist, museum educator, and writer.
Dubious of performance art? There’s a reason.
We interview the remarkable Vanessa Hill, creator of BrainCraft.
This week we bring you an assignment from Hugo Crosthwaite.
This week we share some of your excellent responses to two past assignments.
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