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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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Dignicraft gives us the assignment to facilitate an Encounter / Encuentro.
9:36
Performance artist Ryan McNamara asks you to play a game of Movement Telephone.
7:01
Christoph Niemann offers a challenge of finding the emotion in furniture.
5:33
We ask what the title "curator" really means, both traditionally and as it is used today.
9:07
We review some of the best responses to the 'Under the Influence' assignment.
7:17
Artist Oliver Blank explores our sense of time and place through public installations.
