The Art Assignment

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The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Urist Green.

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    Nov 20

    Some Dutch wisdom from our new video to guide your thanksgiving meal prep. In this edition of Art Cooking, we reproduce a magnificent stack of cheeses from a circa 1615 Clara Peeters still life:

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  2. Dec 7

    It's that time of year again! It's the 12th annual . Tonight I'll be joining in the livestream to make sculptures out of the enormous amount of cheese I still have from Art Cooking. See what happens & help us raise $ for so many good charities.

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  3. Dec 4

    It would be difficult and $$ to get yourself to all the places you'd need to in order to see Vermeer's complete body of work. Go here instead! (Plus, you'd be tackled by guards if you got as close to the real deal as these high res images do.)

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  4. Dec 3

    We visited in The Hague to find out the difference between Vermeer's unforgettable Girl with a Pearl Earring and a high res 3D print of it. . Made happily in partnership with as part of their wider project .

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  5. Nov 21

    Brilliant thread! Participate.

    Hey twitter, do you ever think about pairing songs with paintings? When I hear “Old Friend” by I see “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper. Anyone got other pairings to add?
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  6. Nov 21

    I'm not sure I'd ever made this sound before, until Art Cooking: Still Life.

    This lovely frame from the .
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  7. Nov 19

    Not what I meant to paste into a new message window, but I like it. Now to figure out what to tell them...

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  8. Nov 12

    Everything is terrible in the world, except I came across the world's first spork:

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  9. Nov 7

    Always nice to catch up with ...

    Sarah Urist Green has spent her last 10 years in Indy working to connect audiences with artwork—first, as curator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and, most recently, as the creative force behind the PBS video series The Art Assignment
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  10. Nov 2

    Well finally, here's some good news... Subway Break Dancers, Clad in Armor, Go Medieval at the Met Museum

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  11. Nov 1

    You knew we had to weigh in on the Banksy stunt, right?

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  12. Oct 18

    Met this guy in Detroit, and many others. Join us on our most recent art trip and find out what there really is to see in this great city, beyond the hype:

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  13. Oct 11

    Writing a video about the epic Banksy stunt at Sotheby's last week. Anyone out there who did NOT enjoy it immensely? Give me a shout and let me know how this made you feel or what it made you think about.

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  14. Oct 4

    Must you be tortured to be an artist? Are you more likely to be tortured if you are an artist? Let's talk about the myth vs. what the studies actually say:

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  15. Sep 21

    UGH. Everything we already knew has been confirmed.

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  16. Sep 20

    Oil on paper? You must be kidding. New video making a case for REALISM, or whatever you want to call this impulse to depict the world in approximately the way we humans see it:

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  17. Sep 6

    We’ve all been there. You check your feed and learn that yet another person whose work you’ve at some point appreciated has done something odious. What to do?

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  18. Aug 29

    Did I tell you guys I made BREAD HANDS? To find out why, watch our most recent episode of Art Cooking...

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  19. Aug 23

    This is how we process our feelings about Picasso. Cooking our way through moments in his life, negotiating his legacy through the manipulation of blood sausage. (This one's for you, )

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  20. Aug 9

    Can you identify with this glassy-eyed late 19th Century barmaid? New video! Let's better know Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère...

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