SARAH URIST GREEN: This episode of "The Art Assignment"
is brought to you by Squarespace.
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Hello, everybody.
And happy second birthday to "The Art Assignment."
Huzzah!
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Happy birthday.
Here's to season three.
Woohoo!
So we're here today to talk about season three of "The Art
Assignment," starting now.
And you're going to get about one new art assignment a month.
So still awesome, wonderful, great artists coming your way
with new challenges.
JOHN GREEN: But there will also be
lots of other ways of looking at contemporary art.
Videos about news, more videos that are, like, the case for.
Like, the case for Mark Rothko or Andy Warhol or Kanye.
SARAH URIST GREEN: And we're also
going to be doing more art trip videos, where
we share with you the art we see and the food we eat
when we're in different cities.
I love those videos, Sarah.
Because it's always like, look at all the amazing food
I'm eating and the wonderful museums
I'm visiting while you're home with our kids.
Eating Burger King.
Mm.
Yeah, sometimes it's Chipotle, to be fair.
And in this next season, we want
to answer more of your questions and talk with you directly.
Yeah, so to that end, there are three ways
that you can get in contact with us
and leave us questions that we might use in the show.
Here in YouTube comments, where my pants would be,
where I am pointing right now.
Also on Twitter, where we are Art Assignment.
And we have a new Google Voice number,
so you can call in and leave a voice
message, asking your question.
SARAH URIST GREEN: And we're still
going to be showing off all the great work
you guys do through highlights videos, and also
always on our website and Tumblr.
Which reminds me--
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--we have a new website.
SARAH URIST GREEN: Yes.
It is super awesome and great, and a really good way
to go back through previous assignments.
JOHN GREEN: Yeah, so if you haven't
done some of the old art assignments,
go to theartassignment.com.
It's an amazing, amazing tool for working
through an art assignment, for finding
other people's responses.
I'm just thrilled with it.
We're very grateful to our friends at Squarespace
for helping out with it.
And it's a great tool for students and teachers,
whether you're learning about art formally
or it's just a passion of yours.
Also, John, you may noticed, we have a new set.
Yeah, I can't help but notice that this
looks kind of like your bookshelves,
but it actually isn't your bookshelves.
It is created by the artist Nathaniel Russell, who
recently did our Fake Flyer assignment,
and it is brilliant.
He took my bookcase as a point of departure
to create this new one.
JOHN GREEN: So we've got Felix Gonzalez-Torres' clocks,
as mentioned in a previous "Art Assignment" video.
SARAH URIST GREEN: We have Andy Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Can."
JOHN GREEN: We've got the Aquavit from your office.
SARAH URIST GREEN: We've got the Pussy Riot balaclava.
JOHN GREEN: And I love the book titles.
I mean, "Swedish Things," "Here is How I Did It."
SARAH URIST GREEN: "Art Cleanse,"
"Peace School," "Video Days."
Really just like season three, it's
all the fun of the old stuff, plus lots of new stuff.
And finally, we want to say thank you
for continuing to make "The Art Assignment" possible.
For responding to these assignments, for participating
in the comments, and for talking with me and with John and with
"The Art Assignment" community about art today.
Yeah, it really means a lot to us.
So many times-- I mean, YouTube comments are a joke online,
right?
I mean, people assume when you talk about YouTube comments,
you're talking about a horrible quality of discourse.
And here, in "The Art Assignment" community,
it's very, very different.
And we feel lucky and grateful for that.
And that is all down to you as people
and as artists, the things that you are making,
and the way that you're able to talk
about art without constant invective
and screaming at each other.
So thank you.
Thank you.
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