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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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A Video Game about Art?
15:05
When we heard there was a video game about art and curating, we had to give it a try.
What Art tells us about Gender
14:38
There is a huge range of ways that gender has been understood in the history of art.
Should Art Be Publicly Funded?
11:52
Should Art Be Publicly Funded?
Art About Migration
16:34
Migration is central to human experience, and art history reflects that.
Eat Like Andy Warhol
17:26
Explore the art and life of Warhol through the food he depicted and the food he ate.
Art + Life Rules from a Nun
13:12
Art + Life Rules from a Nun
These Farmers Weren't Farmers
8:21
Guest host John Green delves into the real story behind this iconic photograph.
Artists in Love
7:59
Art History of full of amazing artist couples.
The Truth of the Tortured Artist
7:59
The Truth of the Tortured Artist
The Case for Video Art
9:33
What is video art?
Art You Can't Get To
7:42
Scientists left a plastic bust of Lenin at the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility.
Art I Can't Show You
6:24
John Green discusses how Agnes Martin's paintings brilliantly capture emotion.
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