Public Art Trip: New York City | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios 

Recently, I met Martin Creed during a talk he gave at my university. We were able to ask him questions about his art work and hear some his performance pieces. The way he described his 'understanding' piece is quite different from your opinion. Creed is a quiet person, who often ponders why he should understand things and how we communicate as people. He's always felt like he struggled with talking to people (which made sense as he wasn't that well spoken during this talk). In fact the reason he creates art and music is so that people talk to him, to break him from his boundries, and makes him communicate with others. Originally this piece should was going to say 'Love, Peace, Understanding' in the bold red lettering. However, he had to reconsider this as he unfortunately didn't have enough funding to cover having three large words in neon. He then had to consider what word and why out of the three he'll select. He got rid of 'love' and 'peace' as society today with all the war and hatred that's happening, he didn't feel like it really communicated what he felt about the world. He doesn't feel like the world will ever be filled with love or peace, which just left him with understanding. While this world isn't exactly filled with love or piece, he feels like we may get to the point where we understand each other. That even though people may disagree with each other, people often could try understanding the other persons view. Much like this comment is doing now, I guess? I'm not trying to attack your opinion on the piece, I was just informing you on his thought process for this piece. Hope you found it interesting!

I love this. Agh, why don't I ever go outside?!

I love to see New York and all of the art as a public playground for creativity. This video feels so free and open which the city cant always be.

Damn, the yeti is so cool

The episodes are so poetic, and convey the artworks so eloquently ! Thank you Art Assignment for beautiful and educational art content.

One of my favorite memories is exploring a sculpture park by myself, the park was organized and ran by the art department at a small university in Northwestern Washington(near Port Angeles) it was spread out through a large lush green forest and It was beautiful, free, and the most amazing way to spend a few quiet hours in serene reflection. Sculpture parks are dope as hell.

This video for some reason really made me wish there was a physical place to see other people's Art Assignment submissions. I feel like standing there and seeing them would be so much different than scrolling through them. What about at VidCon? Maybe a few could be printed out and people's descriptions/stories printed out below. And maybe you could have a phone there that people could pick up and listen to clips from the "one who got away" assignment. I love seeing people actually create things while they are there, but it would also be nice to see what the community has made. The PBS booth is a haven in the crazy of VidCon. There aren't really screaming fans. There are people making art, testing our science, sitting at tables and making new friends. Then I just picture someone in the corner with an old rotary phone to their ear listening to a stranger's story of heartbreak. The Chill Lounge just reminds me of all the reasons RU-vid can be special.

I love the art trips. they're like thoughts from places.

Those sculptures wow! the video isn't close to being over and i'm already amazed enough to comment.

Its about feeling it !!!

I adore the High Line! What an incredible re-purposing and revitalization of a huge chunk of the city.

This may very well be my favorite video made by The Art Assignment. Keep it up you all!

The Case for Artists who Grow Things?

I love these art trip videos, they make me want to go on my own art trip!

"Understanding" is one of my favorite things in NYC, and it really rewards repeated visits at different times of day and with different crowds. To me, it seems almost assertively ambiguous - a word with many possible interpretations, presented in a way which offers you no typographic or stylistic guidance as to how it wants to be interpreted, and always moving - even the speed of the rotation changes. I'm sad that it's temporary, and soon to reach the end of it's run, but maybe that's appropriate as well. Understanding is never permanent, it's somehow always slipping away when your back is turned.

The formal assignments are cool and I've done a few of them, but these analysis videos are my favorite. Keep it up!

This video is remarkably pleasant.

I love this show.

Wow 😮 Great program 😍

I love the meeting space between art and the urban environment. I’m really excited about tactical urbanism as a meeting place between urban planning/public policy, art and democracy right now

Concise and perceptive intro of the arts in NY! Looking forward to more art-viewing of cities in America!

I loved this video!

I loved walking the tiny stretch of the High Line I was able to see at the start of this year during my first trip to NYC.

Thank you for sharing this view of New York? it was very interesting for me. I loved room for bees and swale in particular.

Standing under "UNDERSTANDING" must be a cool experience.

aw man, I really wanna climb that bling statue.

PLEASE do a video on social practice art. I took a class on it and have been to several exhibitions, but still need more convincing

Great video, My parents and I just saw some these displays the other week too! I like all the work you and your husband do!

Going to nyc next weekend and I’m determined to hunt down some public art in between Phish concerts!!💜💜💜

This is so perfect, we're going to NYC (from australia) in just over a month and we'll definitely see some of these, thank you for this!!

those places are beautiful!

They look so cute together x3

great work you are doing showing us everything in one time

Thanks for posting another wonderful and thoughtful Art Trip video!

i love this episode

Lovely! Really makes me want to visit NYC

omg that was so amazing, i love this show so muchhhh

Love this so much

Great video! 😊👍

great essay Sarah!!

This brought back a very distinct memory from a few years ago of reading Looking for Alaska for the first time at Socrates Sculpture Park. Weird.

For once I've seen a handful of these! Great video.

Wow

"Insert and remove Ninja Turtles joke." You're reading all of our minds, aren't you? ;) :D Love love love your description/interpretation of Understanding! Really wonderful exploration of what it could be. And this makes me all the more want to go visit the High Line. I've been so excited about it ever since they started adaptively re-using it -- urban parks (like Parc Andre Citroen) are so vital and essential to the heart of a city.

I'm gonna go check out Socrates Sculpture Park tomorrow. Thanks for the info!

Great film! Loved ur explanation too. Not dowdy like some art class. Totally gonna get the sunnies and hit da parks 😎

Gah! I was just in NYC last week! Look at all the cool art I missed. Must return ASAP. Thanks as always for the wonderful videos.

This is a great video, Sarah! I hope you'll go back to NYC at some point... out of all the artistic places I wish I could know more about, it's probably both the one I'm most interested in, and the least accessible.

Of course, I see this and TODAY it's 45 degrees and cloudy, so not really a good outdoor art day.

Y'all should come down to Montreal during Muralfest in the summer. Great video, you never disappoint!!

amazing

My wife and I love this series. Awesome content, super interesting. Some constructive criticism regarding pacing; the videos would be a lot easier for the audience to digest if there were some pauses in the VO. It's a constant barrage of (useful) information - if you allow the listener a moment to absorb chunks of this info before moving onto the next point, they can reflect on each 'chapter' with the footage in front of them, thus the impact would overall be higher.

I am going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art soon- I will try to walk around & see a few of these :)

lovely video as always :)

This makes me wanna move to New York

Now you need to make the "Artists that Grow Things" episode.

Cool 🎈

This is my personal obsession. I have started a public art tour in my city. Please come out to Honolulu Sara !! I would be honored to have you join one of my tours!

yesss!!!

thanks! my broke ass self is going to NYC to visit family and i wanted to see as much art as I can this is a great way to do that on a budget :)

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Come to Philly please, lots of great artist here. ☮️

I wish I could see Martin creed's understanding!! He's my favourite artist but I'm stuck here in England missing out on all of his New York exhibitions and installations and I couldn't even get to Scotland for the talks he did there!! I had to drive three hours to see a one of his exhibitions and it was glorious

gee i've gotta get out to Queens more.

this is awesome, you should meet with some of the creators

John!

Love these videos. Don't know where else to ask this, but do you or anyone have any good book recommendations on art or art history?

I can't believe my luck! Finally I finally saved enough money to visit NYC this April, turns out every piece in the video would be gone by then! not only that, but other Public Art Fund's new works won't be revealed until May, as the black whirpool of Anish Kapoor. I booked for just the time when there will be nothing to see in these places!

Wonderful video! I really enjoyed this one, especially as I am trying to gain a greater appreciation for contemporary art and art that's easily accessible and visible by all.

When did you go to NYC ?

NYC is a too busy. I lived there for a year and I did not like it at all. The art museums and public arts were great but I honestly love living in Helena, Montana more.

Who has _shelf brackets_ on a shopping list?

on a more serious note. there has got to be a way to do public art without gentrifying everything everywhere. I mean, I guess there is and it gets called graffiti and sandblasted away to make space for the gentrifying kind. blah.

Big Bling looks like an elephant to me. Maybe that's just me.

You can tell prudential for me.........retirement pfffffffff im a Gen x er we don't get one.

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To look in youtube. "filosofía cara caras baratas"...

Good lord. That is truly impressive. I never thought anyone could make N.Y. seem dull. But you did it. Amazing.

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Lol, You went from queens to Brooklyn on Uber???

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I like the Art you video, but the incessant how you see it and what it is to you is what I consider a taboo as it may be something totally different to another unless that's your intention to provoke commentary, if so one must be present and able to communicate one with another.

If the narrator could stop croaking at the end of each sentence, that’d be really great.

speaking of art the new modern developed tools are trying to make us believe whats new and washy but honestly its just abandonment now days and im just not into the whole fake pity party about real needs

why the need to speak so quickly?

That’s some ugly Art