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The Art Assignment

The Definition of Art

Season 6 Episode 31

What is art? How do we define art? In this episode, we explore some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood this thing we call art.

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Encounters / Encuentros - Dignicraft
7:14
Dignicraft gives us the assignment to facilitate an Encounter / Encuentro.
Movement Telephone - Ryan McNamara
9:36
Performance artist Ryan McNamara asks you to play a game of Movement Telephone.
Emotional Furniture - Christoph Niemann
7:01
Christoph Niemann offers a challenge of finding the emotion in furniture.
Relative Strangers - Laurel Nakadate
7:21
Laurel Nakadate makes art by connecting with strangers.
Become Someone Else - Tameka Norris
6:44
We’re talking about your responses to Tameka Norris’s assignment to Become Someone Else.
Please Do Not Touch
8:48
When is it appropriate to touch art?
The Art Assignment: Vidcon Edition
12:41
At VidCon 2014, we ask some of our favorite vloggers and hosts to do an Art Assignment.
How to Visit an Art Museum
3:21
Seems easy enough, but there are ways to maximize your experience.
Please Break the Law?
7:21
This week Sarah discusses artists Ai Weiwei and Pussy Riot.
What's a Curator?
5:33
We ask what the title "curator" really means, both traditionally and as it is used today.
Expanded Moment - Jan Tichy
7:04
Jan Tichy gives us the assignment to create an Expanded Moment.
The One That Got Away - Oliver Blank
7:17
Artist Oliver Blank explores our sense of time and place through public installations.
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