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The Art Assignment
Art About Migration
Season 6
Episode 2
Migration is central to human experience, and art history reflects that. Skipping through time and geography, we explore Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series, Lapita pottery, the Akbarnama, and the MexicaN codex "Tira de la Peregrinación," and also discuss contemporary art about migration.
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For our second international art trip, we travel to London during Frieze Art Fair.
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We follow the Guerrilla Girls as they visit Frieze Art Fair in London.
8:55
The Guerrilla Girls are asking, nay demanding, that we complain!
7:39
New York City offers way too many art-viewing opportunities for us to cover in a single ep
7:20
If you were a shape, what shape would you be? This week we meet with Tschabalala Self.
5:53
Ai Weiwei has been called an iconoclast, a radical, a voice for the voiceless...
10:06
This week we meet Pablo Helguera, an artist, museum educator, and writer.
9:09
Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it’s about to begin?
5:39
We interview the remarkable Vanessa Hill, creator of BrainCraft.
9:34
This week we come to you from Rosarito, Mexico AND Chicago, IL to bring you an assignment
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This week we share some of your excellent responses to two assignments
9:17
How are we supposed to deal with art completely removed from recognizable objects?