All statements about The Art Assignment

61 statements about The Art Assignment in 41 videos, by upload date.

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2013

2013-09-24 · Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared — announcement: In the description John says he and his wife Sarah are working together on a new show called The Art Assignment. — video description
2013-09-24 · Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared — announcement: John says The Art Assignment, his new show with his wife Sarah, is produced and distributed by PBS Digital, and asks viewers to subscribe. — video description
2013-10-22 · Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition — announcement: John: Sarah is leaving her job at the Indianapolis Museum of Art to curate and host The Art Assignment, a show with PBS Digital; John jokes he should have said so weeks ago. — 00:02:26

2014

2014-01-24 · The Naughty Professor: Hank and John at the Beach - REUNION! — announcement: John says the first episode of The Art Assignment comes out in late February and asks viewers to subscribe via the doobly-doo link. — 00:00:48
2014-02-14 · Happy Third Chocolate Day! — announcement: Hank: The video ends with a trailer for The Art Assignment. — video description
2014-02-21 · Ranting about Books — announcement: Hank announces the first episode of The Art Assignment is online now and asks viewers to go to youtube.com/theartassignment and watch it. — 00:03:45
2014-02-25 (said on 2014-02-22, implied) · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — ask: The description invites viewers to join The Art Assignment and lists the rules: pick a friend, find the exact midpoint, agree a time, don't communicate until you meet, document and share it. — video description
2014-02-25 (said on 2014-02-22, implied) · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — announcement: John announces that Sarah's new PBS show, The Art Assignment, has just premiered: she visits working artists around the country, gives art-historical context, and they set an art assignment. — 00:00:36
2014-02-25 (said on 2014-02-22, implied) · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — John's assignment: pick a friend and meet that person at the exact geographical midpoint between them; he and his best friend Chris chose each other and must get there by 2 o'clock. — 00:00:47
2014-02-25 (said on 2014-02-22, implied) · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — ask: John: To viewers wondering how this is art, John says they should watch the first episode of The Art Assignment. — 00:00:53
2014-03-11 · Question Tuesday: TFIOS Movie, Existential Crises, and Symbolism — John says participating in The Art Assignment is the most fun he has had in a long time, like early Vlogbrothers: a tight-knit community doing projects and responding to each other's work. — 00:01:36
2014-03-11 · Question Tuesday: TFIOS Movie, Existential Crises, and Symbolism — ask: John says he is most excited right now about The Art Assignment and asks viewers to say in comments what they are most excited about. — 00:03:34
2014-03-25 · I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration — recommendation: John points viewers to The Art Assignment video in which he and Sarah talk about the definition of art. — video description
2014-03-25 · I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration — John recalls that on a recent Art Assignment episode a viewer asked Sarah to define art; she was comfortable without a definition while he blathered. — 00:02:26
2014-03-28 · New Album, New Channels, New Fabric, New Internet Thing! — announcement: Hank presents The Art Assignment, a project with PBS and Sarah Green that brings culture to YouTube, launched before How to Adult. — 00:01:29
2014-03-28 · New Album, New Channels, New Fabric, New Internet Thing! — Hank says anyone who calls YouTube a black hole of culture should be shown The Art Assignment, or the rest of YouTube, which is pretty cool. (playful) — 00:01:37
2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — announcement: John: Sarah's new show The Art Assignment is going great, with a new assignment from artist Kate Gilmore and a thriving community making everything from gifs to sculptures. — 00:02:11
2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — John: Even within tiny Nerdfighteria there are many ways to connect: gatherings, The Art Assignment, the Wimbly Womblys. — 00:03:07
2014-06-24 · In Pursuit of Quiet — John describes The Art Assignment as a cool PBS show about contemporary art starring his wife and, to a much lesser extent, himself. — 00:00:15
2014-06-24 · In Pursuit of Quiet — John: Jace Clayton's assignment, 'The Quietest Place', asked people to walk until they found the quietest place within walking distance. — 00:00:21
2014-09-30 · Keeping it EVEN REALER — John asks whether he should focus on Mental Floss, Crash Course, The Art Assignment, Vlogbrothers or the Wimbly Womblys, and whether doing all of them means doing none well. (unsure) — 00:01:38
2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — announcement: Hank announces a significantly larger relationship with PBS Digital Studios that will basically double Crash Course content; PBS is likewise viewer-funded and partnered with them on Frankenstein MD and The Art Assignment. — 00:02:18

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2015

2015-02-03 (said on 2015-01-30, implied) · Beards, Birds, and the Paper Towns Release Date: Question Tuesday! — recommendation: John's favorite Art Assignment video is Christoph Niemann's Emotional Furniture; he also enjoyed the Highlights video in which he made prints with Sarah. — 00:01:16
2015-03-24 · Is Obamacare Working? The Affordable Care Act Five Years Later — John says the ACA does not seem to hurt the job market and has brought labor-market freedom: Sarah Green could leave her insurance-providing museum job to start an art show with PBS Digital. (hedged) — 00:04:22
2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — John explains that he and Sarah make The Art Assignment with PBS Digital: they visit contemporary artists around the country who give viewers art assignments. — 00:00:17
2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — John loves that The Art Assignment makes him do and think about unusual things; here, what has and hasn't changed in the last few years. — 00:03:04
2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — ask: John thanks Tameka Norris and asks viewers to check out The Art Assignment's many assignments and videos about contemporary art. — 00:03:22
2015-11-10 · It's a Pizzamas Miracle! (Pizzamas Day 2) — announcement: John: The same friends took part in a recent Art Assignment episode that was also a dinner party, viewable on The Art Assignment. — 00:02:27

2016

2016-07-19 · Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation — recommendation: John calls Sarah's Art Assignment video The Case for Kanye West brilliant; since watching it he has listened more carefully to Kanye's music. — 00:00:02
2016-08-30 · My Body Is a Broken Temple — John says in the almost five years since The Fault in Our Stars, Crash Course, The Art Assignment, Alice and some movies happened, but he has not published a new book. — 00:02:20
2016-09-13 · YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own) — John says they have always had to build homes off YouTube for non-video community stuff: Art Assignment submissions go via other sites, Crash Course lacks worksheets, and P4A needs social media. — 00:01:19
2016-09-20 · Failing to Follow Up The Fault in Our Stars — John says writing had become miserable, and as he gave more time to Crash Course and The Art Assignment he realized he has amazing work he is lucky to do. (hedged) — 00:02:19
2016-10-04 · Drowzees and Masterpieces: Thoughts from London — announcement: John says Mark was filming the day for The Art Assignment, so an 'Art Trip: London' video like this one, but much better, is coming soon. — 00:00:27

2017

2017-08-08 · What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy — John says they are in Venice to film the Venice Biennale, a huge art show, for The Art Assignment, Sarah's PBS show; filming starts tomorrow. — 00:00:25

2018

2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — recommendation: John praises Art Cooking, a series on Sarah's PBS Digital channel The Art Assignment (e.g. Salvador Dali's crawfish tower), for teaching food and cooking together with art. — 00:00:27
2018-04-10 · Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? — John says Sarah made a brilliant Art Assignment video last week (week of 2 April 2018) on how extremely wealthy people sometimes use art collecting to avoid taxation, which prompted this video. — 00:00:00
2018-04-10 · Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? — recommendation: John highly recommends Sarah's Art Assignment video on the shocking truth about art and taxes. — 00:03:37

2019

2019-01-08 · I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going — announcement: The description notes John also wrote an Art Assignment video about the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility and art that survives where we cannot. — video description
2019-01-08 · I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going — John has more time: he wrote an Art Assignment video about Agnes Martin, and spends more time with his family. — 00:01:33
2019-03-05 · Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole — announcement: John: Sarah asked John to make an Art Assignment video about the picture, Three Young Farmers on Their Way to a Dance, taken by German photographer August Sander in 1914; he agreed and began researching. — 00:00:00
2019-03-05 · Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole — announcement: John tells the whole story, as far as he knows it, in the Art Assignment video linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:02:55
2019-03-26 · Optimism and Spider People: Question Tuesday from the Looking for Alaska Set — John's favorite Catholic saint is probably St. Francis, but Sister Corita Kent would be his favorite if canonized, as a recent Art Assignment video explains. (hedged) — 00:01:57
2019-07-09 · Life Hacks My Wife Taught Me — recommendation: John recommends decorating your walls, which he once thought an unnecessary expense: album art, prints made with an Art Assignment video, or student art shows; it enriches indoor life. — 00:02:26
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says he has read and helped edit Sarah's writing, including the wall labels she wrote as a museum curator and the Art Assignment videos she now writes for her PBS Digital series. — 00:00:58
2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — announcement: John says the book gathers assignments Sarah commissioned from artists for The Art Assignment plus many new assignments and essays on how contemporary artists work. — 00:02:26

2020

2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — recommendation: John says Sarah and Complexly producer Brandon Brungard made a brilliant Art Assignment video last week (week of 24 February 2020), The Case for Video Games, and viewers should watch it. — 00:00:00
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — John: Asked in comments how the like/view ratio is holding up, John says it holds incredibly well on the Art Assignment video; here it is still a little off because people are conscious of it, but reverting to the mean. — creator comment
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — 33ranjit (quoted): YouTube commenter 33Ranjit wrote that Art Assignment videos look at what humans do without shirking problems but never ridicule others: exercises in consciously experiencing human dignity. — 00:00:29
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — John loves Art Assignment videos for finding ways to do that, from artists who get little critical attention to art forms like video games often treated as not proper art. — 00:01:56
2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — John says that over six years Sarah has shown millions what is important about the art world, and shown the art world what is important about the rest of the world. — 00:01:56
2020-03-17 · together. — announcement: John says that starting tomorrow he and Sarah will host regular livestreams on Vlogbrothers and The Art Assignment channel, drinking a little wine and making a little art. — 00:02:55
2020-04-03 · 11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else) — Hank says he didn't foresee that these channels and others like The Art Assignment, Healthcare Triage and SciShow Kids would suddenly become more useful during a pandemic, since he didn't think there would be one. — 00:00:12
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — announcement: John films in front of a new temporary background: the new temporary headquarters of The Art Assignment, Sarah's YouTube channel with PBS Digital Studios. — 00:00:00
2020-04-07 · I am an artist. — recommendation: John says viewers can still do the Art Assignment free on YouTube, where many of the book's assignments began, and links a playlist. — 00:03:05
2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — announcement: In a comment John says he will do a livestream about PIH's work in Sierra Leone later in the week, plus an evening livestream. — creator comment

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2021

2021-12-01 · Loving the Loves of Your Loves — recommendation: John notes Sarah made a fascinating Art Assignment video about that painting and why it is art-historically significant. — 00:01:27

2022

2022-08-02 · Liberty Leading the People: How Revolutions Turn — recommendation: In a comment, John recommends Sarah's Art Assignment discussion of the painting's symbolic imagery and the political courage required to paint it. — creator comment

2023

2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — announcement: John says the first episode of The Art Assignment comes out in late February (2014). — 01:34:23

2025

2025-12-16 · John Green's Brother — John says in real life he is Hank Green's brother: at an art show last week (week of 8 December 2025) someone recognised Sarah from The Art Assignment and asked if she was married to the brother. (playful) — 00:00:29

2026

2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — recommendation: John says he found out about Alexei Leonov's art through an Art Assignment video called Art in Space, and that The Art Assignment remains maybe his all-time favorite YouTube channel. (hedged) — 06:48:20
2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says that in 2011 he and Hank founded Complexly, which has made lots of educational content, from Bizarre Beasts to The Art Assignment to SciShow to Crash Course. — 00:00:58