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The Art Assignment
The Case for Abstraction
Season 3
Episode 23
For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Until about 100 years ago, when a bunch of artists stopped trying to do that. It was shocking then and it still upsets and confounds today.
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This week we meet with artist and designer Jonathan Nesci in Columbus, Indiana.
7:34
We continue at ArtPrize and meet with Brooklyn-based artist Diana Shpungin.
3:37
We gathered some friends together for our own Scramble Scrabble Dinner.
7:48
We met up with Minneapolis based artists Carolina Borja and Amy Toscani.
8:23
Artist and musician Nathaniel Russell asks you to create a fake flyer.
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Michelle Grabner works in multiple mediums, but always with a focus on pattern and color.
2:49
We continue our stay at Mildred's Lane and talk about it's origins and vision.
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This week we’re at Mildred’s Lane in rural Pennsylvania founded by J. Morgan Puett.
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We’re talking about your responses to Tameka Norris’s assignment to Become Someone Else.