The Art Assignment Season 3 Episodes

Episode 1

Art trip: los angeles

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

In which we explore sunny los angeles and take in its enormous range of art offerings.

Episode 2

Vehicular palette - jesse sugarmann

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Today we're talking with jesse sugarmann and car consumerism.

Episode 3

Artline bling 3: art world pretension, etc.

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

This week we answer your questions from our art hotline.

Episode 4

Art happens at vidcon

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

This week we report to you from vidcon.

Episode 5

Art trip: tijuana

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

This week we travel to tijuana to meet with ghana think tank and torolab.

Episode 6

What's your problem? - ghana think tank

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

This week we we head to tijuana, mexico to talk with ghana think tank.

Episode 7

The case for abstraction

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

How are we supposed to deal with art completely removed from recognizable objects?

Episode 8

Embarrassing object empathy

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

This week we share some of your excellent responses to two assignments.

Episode 9

Exquisite corpse - hugo crosthwaite

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

This week we come to you from rosarito, mexico and chicago, il to bring you an assignment.

Episode 11

Vanessa hill of braincraft

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We interview the remarkable vanessa hill, creator of braincraft.

Episode 12

The case for performance art

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Dubious of performance art? Break into a cold sweat when you realize it's about to begin?

Episode 13

Combinatory play - pablo helguera

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

This week we meet pablo helguera, an artist, museum educator, and writer.

Episode 14

The case for ai weiwei

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Ai weiwei has been called an iconoclast, a radical, a voice for the voiceless.

Episode 15

Self shape - tschabalala self

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

If you were a shape, what shape would you be? This week we meet with tschabalala self.

Episode 16

Five favorite works of art with mike rugnetta

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

This week mike rugnetta joins us to share five of his favorite works of art. Thanks, mike.

Episode 17

Public art trip: new york city

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

New york city offers way too many art-viewing opportunities for us to cover.

Episode 18

The art of complaining - the guerrilla girls

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

The guerrilla girls are asking, nay demanding, that we complain.

Episode 19

The guerrilla girls get shut out at frieze art fair

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We follow the guerrilla girls as they visit frieze art fair in london.

Episode 20

Art trip: london

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

for our second international art trip, we travel to london during frieze art fair.

Episode 21

Peter liversidge - proposals

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We drop in on london-based artist peter liversidge, who gives us proposals in the place of.

Episode 22

Cases for political art

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

This week we explore some of the most powerful artworks ever made.

Episode 23

Mariam ghani + erin ellen kelly

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Episode 24

The end of art assignments

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

with 2017 comes great change. Assignments are ending, but the channel is not.

Episode 25

Brain sounds - jamal cyrus

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We meet up with artist jamal cyrus in his hometown of houston, texas.

Episode 26

Art trip: houston

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We take an art pilgrimage to houston, texas, and visit the likes of the rothko chapel, jam.

Episode 27

Imaginary friend - jooyoung choi

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We introduce you to the talented and amazing jooyoung choi.

Episode 28

Art trip: indianapolis

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We figured it was time to come back home and try being tourists in our own town.

Episode 29

Whitescapes - odili donald odita art assignment pbs

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

What is white? What is any color?

Episode 30

Look what we've done

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Over the past 3 years, 60 artists have offered art assignments, and thousands of artworks.

Episode 31

The case for surrealism

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Surrealism has become shorthand for the bizarre, the irrational, the hallucinatory.

Episode 32

The future of the art assignment: extra credit! T-shirts!

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

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Episode 33

Better know the mona lisa

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

She's probably the most famous artwork of all time, but what do you know about her?

Episode 34

We love pbs the art assignment pbs digital studios

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Tell us what you love about public media using.

Episode 35

Art cooking: futurist meat sculpture

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Exploring the intersection of art and food, we prepare two dishes from the 1930s devised.

Episode 36

The case for copying

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

sampling, appropriating, borrowing, stealing.

Episode 37

Better know the great wave

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Hokusai's great wave is a woodblock print that was made to be reproduced.

Episode 38

Art cooking: georgia o'keeffe

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Georgia o'keeffe was a groundbreaking artist, but also a serious health food enthusiast.

Episode 39

The case for land art

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Look at what it means to make art out in nature and in the world from the 1960s to today.

Episode 40

Five favorite works of art with april richardson

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Comedian and writer april richardson shares with us five of her favorite works.

Episode 41

Art trip: marfa

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

The epicenter of the art world is in marfa, texas?

Episode 42

Art or prank?

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

A pair of glasses on an art gallery floor. Art? Or prank?

Episode 43

Art cooking: frida kahlo

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We explore the recipes of artist frida kahlo.

Episode 44

Five favorite works of art with jon cozart

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Jon cozart's five favorite works of art.

Episode 45

Art trip: venice biennale

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

Called the "olympics of the art world," behold the 2017 venice biennale exhibition.

Episode 46

Five favorite works of art with hannah hart

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We met hannah hart in her studio to talk about everything from painting to poetry.

Episode 47

Art trip: columbus, indiana

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

We explore the first exhibition of exhibit columbus.

Episode 48

Art cooking: bone meal

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

The brainchild behind the infamous 1971 bone meal at the artist-run nyc food restaurant.

Episode 49

Art is pretentious*

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

And other things i learned about art from the internet.

Episode 50

Do machines make art?

Mon, Feb 2, 2026

When art is generated by artificial intelligence, what or who can we call the artist?