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Should Art Be Publicly Funded?

Should Art Be Publicly Funded?

Season 6 Episode 3
11:51
What Art tells us about Gender

What Art tells us about Gender

Season 6 Episode 4
14:38
A Video Game about Art?

A Video Game about Art?

Season 6 Episode 5
15:05
What Does Resistance Look Like?

What Does Resistance Look Like?

Season 6 Episode 6
14:02
Art We Launched Into Space

Art We Launched Into Space

Season 6 Episode 7
14:08
How Climate Changes Art

How Climate Changes Art

Season 6 Episode 8
15:40
Whose Migrant Mother was this?

Whose Migrant Mother was this?

Season 6 Episode 9
10:59
Art and Empathy

Art and Empathy

Season 6 Episode 10
16:02
What Did Monet Eat in a Day?

What Did Monet Eat in a Day?

Season 6 Episode 12
21:34
How to Sound like you Understand Art

How to Sound like you Understand Art

Season 6 Episode 13
12:30
The Case for Impressionism

The Case for Impressionism

Season 6 Episode 14
12:41
My Top 40 Art Reflections

My Top 40 Art Reflections

Season 6 Episode 15
9:25
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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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The Case for Land Art
8:55
Look at what it means to make art out in nature and in the world from the 1960s to today.
Art Cooking: Georgia O'Keeffe
9:19
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE was a groundbreaking artist, but also a serious health food enthusiast.
Better Know the Great Wave
6:58
Hokusai's Great Wave is a woodblock print that was made to be reproduced.
The Case for Copying
10:16
Sampling, appropriating, borrowing, stealing.
Art Cooking: Futurist Meat Sculpture
8:57
Exploring the intersection of art and food, we prepare two dishes from the 1930s devised b
Better Know the Mona Lisa
5:24
She's probably the most famous artwork of all time, but what do you know about her?
The Future of The Art Assignment: Extra Credit! T-Shirts!
4:55
Subscribe for new episodes of The Art Assignment every other Thursday!
The Case for Surrealism
10:17
"Surrealism" has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory.
We Love PBS | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
3:07
Tell us what you love about public media using #IlovePBS
Look What We've Done
3:21
Over the past 3 years, 60 artists have offered art assignments, and thousands of artworks
Whitescapes - Odili Donald Odita | The Art Assignment | PBS
10:56
What is white? What is any color?
Art Trip: Indianapolis
12:36
We figured it was time to come back home and try being tourists in our own town.
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