I appreciate being liberated from the conundrum of “Is s/he saying VanGock or VanGoff?” by learning that I can still pronounce it the way we did in high school art class 💕❤️💕🎈🤸♂️🎈🤸♂️🎈
This is the kind of video that really reminds me just of how much The Art Assignment has changed my perception of art. I used to be rather uninterested in it, I even remember arguing with my mother about why she shouldn't bother showing me boring, old paintings, especially because I just felt like I needed to have way more knowledge about the art to be able to enjoy it (and wasn't motivated enough to learn about it on my own). Now, for example when I was in Rome a few weeks ago, it was me who begged my family to visit the Museum of Modern Art, or when I was in Paris last year the Centre Pompidu, or in Venice the Guggenheim Museum, and I have absolutely loved all of these places. I still feel like I should /know/ more about the art that I see, but now for the first time I'm actually motivated and interested to inform myself about the artists and learn stuff because I find it genuinely interesting, and I'm also much more able to just enjoy a piece of art and think about it without having any background information. That wouldn't have happened without The Art Assignment, so thank you.
I love that you talked about all the places you visited in addition to museums - such as the metro, public monuments, restaurants, juice bars, etc. Every time I've gone on an art trip I've always viewed it it as a whole experience. Like the last time I went to Chicago and how vividly I remember the El train, the little studio apartment I stayed in, and the delicious gelato I had by the lake - in addition to all the inspiring works I saw in museums, public spaces and small galleries. Love these trip vlogs - please share more in the future =)
+ARTiculations Thanks for the kind words, Betty! We're actually going to be in Chicago filming next week, unless there's a freak snowstorm. I used to live there and know the city fairly well, but let me know your favorite spots!
Oh that's so awesome! I would love to live in Chicago - I always feel like I don't see enough when I'm there. I love all the public art works everywhere in the city. Last time I was there I loved going to the Chicago Culture Center - the architecture of the building is just so beautiful and they had some great exhibitions. I also loved the Chicago Design Museum and touring Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Oak Park. And of course I always spend all day in the Art Institute. Would love to get some more tips from you for the next time I go there! =)
Thank you for validating my love and obsession with the DC metro system. I've experienced many, but none compare to the sheer weirdness of the vibe in the metro, especially Dupont Circle station.
+radagastwiz Amsterdam is a very favorite city of mine. I would LOVE to do that. And I'm embarrassed to admit I've never been to Montreal! If you have any other Montreal recs besides the metro, do share.
+The Art Assignment +radagastwiz I was just about to say the same thing re: Edinburgh. Lived there for a year & the galleries (which are all FREE) are just as diverse as DC's food seems to be! The Sottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Fruitmarket, Ingleby, Dovecot Studios, Stills, ... it's awesome. Also, to my knowledge, Montreal may not has as many galleries, but I'm completely certain Sarah would love the city.
Having lived in DC myself, I love, love, love this video. I wish I had been to more of the featured places during my time there but now I have a list in hand next time I visit.
+phildude33 I am in complete agreement that the free factor is major! Didn't intend my last statement to be a footnote but instead a powerful ending. Staying in DC as a tourist certainly isn't free, but if you live in the vicinity and can get there cheaply, it's an incredible system to have at your fingertips. Thanks for watching.
I live in the DC area and have been to many of those places! But I still need to go to several of those art museums. I worked in the Renwick before its refurbishment. :)
Oh wow! Perfect timing for this video! I'm from England and have just been hired at a summer camp in Washington D.C. for this summer as a graphic design counselor. These places look amazing! I get weekends off and can't wait to explore it all! Also those sushi burritos
Love the Hishorn Museum! The Cai Guo-Quang "painting" with gunpower and Yinka Shonibare's piece are some of my favorites. I remember stopping to read about them on two different visiting occasions thus making my less art appreciative mom and friends get mad at me. When one visits a museum, they should go through it slowly. At least, that's what I think. Everyone who goes with me like to look at it for a few seconds and move on. NO! They did like Dan Flavin's blue room for selfies though. I also loved how you pointed out architecture and the metro as art. I do still life drawings, and my favorite thing to do is to draw out art from everyday objects.
Would love if you discussed your visit to Art Basel in Miami and heard your thoughts on the clash (or collaboration) between art, artists, the market, and regular people. Also where did you eat or go if you got out of the Fair?
One of my Art History professors started off this year by recommending your channel, and I'm glad she did! Your videos are very refreshing :) looking forward to the next one!
Thanks for the great look at DC! I'm glad you had a great experience visiting and the metro cooperated for you (seemed to anyway) (I live in DC and went to American for my undergrad).
This comment comes to you in 3 parts. I live in the suburbs of DC, and so I expected to hear about museums I have been to, and by and large these were at least museums I have heard of but not neccesarily been to recently enough to remember them. So perhaps I should plan a few more trips into downtown to see stuff. You did leave out my favorite, the Portrait Gallery. Thank you for giving me a new perspective on the Metro, which I don't ride nearly as often as I used to. I never thought of it as art. I'll have to consider it from that perspective when next I ride. Your inclusion of the foods you ate has inspired the most thought of any part of the video. I am inferring by your inclusion of it here that you see it not as just food, fueling your journey as gas fuels your car, but as something to be viewed through the lens of art. Is restaurant food art? Is it instead a craft? Can it be both? Is there a difference between an artist, an artisan, and a craftsperson? Since, as food shows like to say, "we eat with our eyes first", is the plate as presented a work of art, which is then promptly destroyed and consumed? If in fact something that is more traditionally considered art were deconstructed, would it cease to be art? If the two clocks of Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "Untitled (Perfect Lovers)" were separated and placed in different rooms, would they become "just clocks" functioning in the way clocks usually function, to tell us the time, and cease to be art? In the performing arts, at some point the performer stops performing and the art is over presumably. So are art objects performing while they are up and if one ever takes down said object its performance is temporarily or permanently over? Is that what happens when my plate of food goes from being viewed to consumed? I also noticed an Asian focus in your meals and wonder if that was intentional.
It's really bugging me that I missed you! I live in DC and the whole video I was thinking I've been there, I know that! (Though currently we're in three feet of snow!) I love each of the places you visited, and the house that changes perspectives as you move is one of my favorite installations. Next time you come back I recommend the portrait gallery and the Newseum, both are great and the Newseum while more of a history museum includes a lot of art, and showcases part of the Berlin Wall, which has some amazing graffiti that has great historical significance. Thanks for the video!
Sarah, You're making me miss DC, even the Metro which although I was initially amazed by structurally came to dislike with its lack of proper management for maintenance. You didn't go to the portrait gallery in China town, which is one of my favorites of the smithsonian's when it comes to modern exhibitions, but there are a number of those museums I have yet to see though, so I'll make sure to swing by them when I go and see friends. And I'm so sorry you missed GBD! I still dream of their Dough-Reo, which I've had too many times on my way to internships. Just sitting here being all nostalgic now, although I should be trying to see more galleries while I'm here in Chicago.
WOW the Dan Flavin installation looks like something I would love! I wish I had made it to all of these places when I went to DC last year. Great video!
So sorry you missed the Renwick exhibit! I loved it. (Free is questionable descriptor with the prices of housing/lodging and parking and/or the Metro; I'd rather give that money to art institutions, but alas.)
It's so nice and refreshing to see my city through an outsider's eyes. I am so glad you enjoyed your time here! You ate at several of my favorite spots, so I think you did okay on the food side. GBD is a little overrated though, if that makes you feel any better.
+Elliott Collins I used to live in DC and it is an amazing city! So much to do and much of it FREE! Museums, science lectures, readings by the nation's poet laureate, parks- so many options!! I really miss it now that I live in Atlanta and the few cultural things to do cost an arm and a leg!
I took some notes because this was such a wonderful video! Thank you for taking the time to make this! I'm sure it took a lot of time to edit it so precisely, however, it is lovely! I took some notes and will definitely be checking out many of these museums/restaurants!!
there are two people at an art gallery. one person is sitting on a bench in the middle of a room but rather than admiring the painting, they are facing in the opposite direction, looking at their phone. the other person sees this and realizing its a great comment on art vs society, snaps a picture of the person sitting down. however earlier that day the person sitting on the bench decided to place themselves in that specific position anticipating someone recognizing exactly what their situation looked like and take a picture. who is the artist?
+Will Conover We will definitely be making a Chicago-focused Art Trip video soon. The only problem is not being able to cover it all! I used to live there and perhaps know it too well.
WOW, those pieces at the Renwick look stunning -- anyone know how long they'll be displayed? Also, thank you +The Art Assignment for highlighting all the architecture in the video as well! :D
The Metro is so ugly though, the architecture is so dark and dank. Then again I have to commute on metro all the time so it isn't new and exciting to me. I love the Phillips though! If you go back you have to eat at Bub and Pops sandwich place (just south of dupont circle) they have the best subs and freshly made potato chips! The Freer and Sackler galleries are also nice and relaxing since they're usually not very crowded.
10:39 "It's a smart city." Okay, so what is a dumb city then? 10:52 "Almost all of it you can experience for free." It isn't free. Taxpayers have payed for the government institutions, and will continue to. The non-government institutions were payed for by rich people and rich groups.
+idiotsloveboxes The Smithsonian is actually mostly paid for by the original endowment and private donations as is the National Gallery of Art. So they are free for the public.
Lucky Mark. It sounds like the cultural spots of Washington are wasted on you. Maybe next time get your heardout of your apps. Because it's really boring to watch.
I appreciate being liberated from the conundrum of “Is s/he saying VanGock or VanGoff?” by learning that I can still pronounce it the way we did in high school art class 💕❤️💕🎈🤸♂️🎈🤸♂️🎈
This is the kind of video that really reminds me just of how much The Art Assignment has changed my perception of art. I used to be rather uninterested in it, I even remember arguing with my mother about why she shouldn't bother showing me boring, old paintings, especially because I just felt like I needed to have way more knowledge about the art to be able to enjoy it (and wasn't motivated enough to learn about it on my own). Now, for example when I was in Rome a few weeks ago, it was me who begged my family to visit the Museum of Modern Art, or when I was in Paris last year the Centre Pompidu, or in Venice the Guggenheim Museum, and I have absolutely loved all of these places. I still feel like I should /know/ more about the art that I see, but now for the first time I'm actually motivated and interested to inform myself about the artists and learn stuff because I find it genuinely interesting, and I'm also much more able to just enjoy a piece of art and think about it without having any background information. That wouldn't have happened without The Art Assignment, so thank you.
Golden rule of the metro: Walk left, stand right! Welcome to DC!
I love that you talked about all the places you visited in addition to museums - such as the metro, public monuments, restaurants, juice bars, etc. Every time I've gone on an art trip I've always viewed it it as a whole experience. Like the last time I went to Chicago and how vividly I remember the El train, the little studio apartment I stayed in, and the delicious gelato I had by the lake - in addition to all the inspiring works I saw in museums, public spaces and small galleries. Love these trip vlogs - please share more in the future =)
+ARTiculations Thanks for the kind words, Betty! We're actually going to be in Chicago filming next week, unless there's a freak snowstorm. I used to live there and know the city fairly well, but let me know your favorite spots!
Oh that's so awesome! I would love to live in Chicago - I always feel like I don't see enough when I'm there. I love all the public art works everywhere in the city. Last time I was there I loved going to the Chicago Culture Center - the architecture of the building is just so beautiful and they had some great exhibitions. I also loved the Chicago Design Museum and touring Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Oak Park. And of course I always spend all day in the Art Institute. Would love to get some more tips from you for the next time I go there! =)
I loved visiting the museums in Washington, D.C.
I wish we had something like it in Toronto, Canada.
Dream on....
This is maybe the nicest review of DC I've ever heard...and I've been living there for 3 years...
I am really starting to appreciate Mark Rothko. The way he wants his work situated encloses you in on your own thoughts. It's really fascinating!
I'm a simple man - I see Rothko, I start screaming like a Japanese school girl at a kpop concert. And also, I press like.
I think the sushi burritos might be the most breathtaking piece of art in this video. just beautiful.
Stunning exhibits at the Renwick Gallery! We love the experience of art you can walk in and under and about.
I love how this isn’t only a art adventure but a food adventure. I want to go to alllll of these places 💜💜💜
I love DC. When I lived there, we lived close enough to walk to the sculpture garden and visit Typewriter Eraser a lot!
Love that you mention the food you ate too. These art trip videos just add more places to my list of things to see in USA.
DC! American University! Maya Lin! Hirshhorn! WMATA(?)! My heart can't handle this homage to my university city
Love this series
Thank you for validating my love and obsession with the DC metro system. I've experienced many, but none compare to the sheer weirdness of the vibe in the metro, especially Dupont Circle station.
i live in DC and give this 5 stars!!!! real cool how you covered the food because they pair nicely...
I'd love the channel to go to Montreal, for another Metro system that is a work of art; and/or to Amsterdam, for the amazing concentration of museums.
+radagastwiz Amsterdam is a very favorite city of mine. I would LOVE to do that. And I'm embarrassed to admit I've never been to Montreal! If you have any other Montreal recs besides the metro, do share.
+The Art Assignment +radagastwiz I was just about to say the same thing re: Edinburgh. Lived there for a year & the galleries (which are all FREE) are just as diverse as DC's food seems to be! The Sottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Fruitmarket, Ingleby, Dovecot Studios, Stills, ... it's awesome.
Also, to my knowledge, Montreal may not has as many galleries, but I'm completely certain Sarah would love the city.
i hav seen a good art work in russian metros too....n i loved them..they r beautiful.
Having lived in DC myself, I love, love, love this video. I wish I had been to more of the featured places during my time there but now I have a list in hand next time I visit.
MOST OF THESE ARE FREE! I was sad to see this fact as a mere footnote. Such amazing art is right at our fingertips and no cost!!
+phildude33 I am in complete agreement that the free factor is major! Didn't intend my last statement to be a footnote but instead a powerful ending. Staying in DC as a tourist certainly isn't free, but if you live in the vicinity and can get there cheaply, it's an incredible system to have at your fingertips. Thanks for watching.
I absolutely loved this.
Yay! Another Art Trip!
Seeing Plexus by Gabriel Dawe is my favorite experience I had in DC.
I live in the DC area and have been to many of those places! But I still need to go to several of those art museums. I worked in the Renwick before its refurbishment. :)
I love this series!
Oh wow! Perfect timing for this video! I'm from England and have just been hired at a summer camp in Washington D.C. for this summer as a graphic design counselor. These places look amazing! I get weekends off and can't wait to explore it all! Also those sushi burritos
Love the Hishorn Museum! The Cai Guo-Quang "painting" with gunpower and Yinka Shonibare's piece are some of my favorites. I remember stopping to read about them on two different visiting occasions thus making my less art appreciative mom and friends get mad at me. When one visits a museum, they should go through it slowly. At least, that's what I think. Everyone who goes with me like to look at it for a few seconds and move on. NO! They did like Dan Flavin's blue room for selfies though. I also loved how you pointed out architecture and the metro as art. I do still life drawings, and my favorite thing to do is to draw out art from everyday objects.
Would love if you discussed your visit to Art Basel in Miami and heard your thoughts on the clash (or collaboration) between art, artists, the market, and regular people. Also where did you eat or go if you got out of the Fair?
Travel goals! Thank you guys, love these. Art + travel = yes
One of my Art History professors started off this year by recommending your channel, and I'm glad she did! Your videos are very refreshing :) looking forward to the next one!
Thank you for the reminder we need to go back to DC so soon!! We only live about 2 hours away. :) You guys really stomped all over that town.
Thanks for the great look at DC! I'm glad you had a great experience visiting and the metro cooperated for you (seemed to anyway) (I live in DC and went to American for my undergrad).
This comment comes to you in 3 parts.
I live in the suburbs of DC, and so I expected to hear about museums I have been to, and by and large these were at least museums I have heard of but not neccesarily been to recently enough to remember them. So perhaps I should plan a few more trips into downtown to see stuff. You did leave out my favorite, the Portrait Gallery.
Thank you for giving me a new perspective on the Metro, which I don't ride nearly as often as I used to. I never thought of it as art. I'll have to consider it from that perspective when next I ride.
Your inclusion of the foods you ate has inspired the most thought of any part of the video. I am inferring by your inclusion of it here that you see it not as just food, fueling your journey as gas fuels your car, but as something to be viewed through the lens of art. Is restaurant food art? Is it instead a craft? Can it be both? Is there a difference between an artist, an artisan, and a craftsperson? Since, as food shows like to say, "we eat with our eyes first", is the plate as presented a work of art, which is then promptly destroyed and consumed? If in fact something that is more traditionally considered art were deconstructed, would it cease to be art? If the two clocks of Felix Gonzalez-Torres' "Untitled (Perfect Lovers)" were separated and placed in different rooms, would they become "just clocks" functioning in the way clocks usually function, to tell us the time, and cease to be art? In the performing arts, at some point the performer stops performing and the art is over presumably. So are art objects performing while they are up and if one ever takes down said object its performance is temporarily or permanently over? Is that what happens when my plate of food goes from being viewed to consumed? I also noticed an Asian focus in your meals and wonder if that was intentional.
I liked the exposition on the different art pieces! Great vid guys.
If form follows function, is Metro a failure of art? (I live in DC. ;) )
It's really bugging me that I missed you! I live in DC and the whole video I was thinking I've been there, I know that! (Though currently we're in three feet of snow!) I love each of the places you visited, and the house that changes perspectives as you move is one of my favorite installations. Next time you come back I recommend the portrait gallery and the Newseum, both are great and the Newseum while more of a history museum includes a lot of art, and showcases part of the Berlin Wall, which has some amazing graffiti that has great historical significance. Thanks for the video!
Thanks for reminding me about the cool place where I live. Just made a date to meet friends to view some of the work you showed!
Art atack! Nice one
Sarah, You're making me miss DC, even the Metro which although I was initially amazed by structurally came to dislike with its lack of proper management for maintenance. You didn't go to the portrait gallery in China town, which is one of my favorites of the smithsonian's when it comes to modern exhibitions, but there are a number of those museums I have yet to see though, so I'll make sure to swing by them when I go and see friends. And I'm so sorry you missed GBD! I still dream of their Dough-Reo, which I've had too many times on my way to internships.
Just sitting here being all nostalgic now, although I should be trying to see more galleries while I'm here in Chicago.
WOW the Dan Flavin installation looks like something I would love! I wish I had made it to all of these places when I went to DC last year. Great video!
So sorry you missed the Renwick exhibit! I loved it. (Free is questionable descriptor with the prices of housing/lodging and parking and/or the Metro; I'd rather give that money to art institutions, but alas.)
It's so nice and refreshing to see my city through an outsider's eyes. I am so glad you enjoyed your time here! You ate at several of my favorite spots, so I think you did okay on the food side. GBD is a little overrated though, if that makes you feel any better.
Great video! 😊👍
I've always worried that I might need to move to DC someday, and this makes me worry less.
Same. (I'm going into health policy.)
+Elliott Collins I used to live in DC and it is an amazing city! So much to do and much of it FREE! Museums, science lectures, readings by the nation's poet laureate, parks- so many options!! I really miss it now that I live in Atlanta and the few cultural things to do cost an arm and a leg!
I took some notes because this was such a wonderful video! Thank you for taking the time to make this! I'm sure it took a lot of time to edit it so precisely, however, it is lovely! I took some notes and will definitely be checking out many of these museums/restaurants!!
So weird to hear about Metro as art when I spend so much time/money avoiding it!!
there are two people at an art gallery. one person is sitting on a bench in the middle of a room but rather than admiring the painting, they are facing in the opposite direction, looking at their phone. the other person sees this and realizing its a great comment on art vs society, snaps a picture of the person sitting down. however earlier that day the person sitting on the bench decided to place themselves in that specific position anticipating someone recognizing exactly what their situation looked like and take a picture. who is the artist?
trick question, it's a collab
PLEASE DO CHICAGO IF YOU CAN!!!! Love the work, thanks
+Will Conover We will definitely be making a Chicago-focused Art Trip video soon. The only problem is not being able to cover it all! I used to live there and perhaps know it too well.
Bonchon is my life
You've gone and made me miss D.C. (and become hungry)
The video presentation has a Giada De Laurentiis vibe.
Why did you not find the Lincoln memorial compelling? Very curious
WOW, those pieces at the Renwick look stunning -- anyone know how long they'll be displayed? Also, thank you +The Art Assignment for highlighting all the architecture in the video as well! :D
+Oliver Bollmann May 8th for the exhibits on the second floor, July 10th for the exhibits on the first floor.
cminmd0041 Great, thanks! Now to see if I can make it over thattaway before they are gone... :)
5:29 the menu is also kill bill themed.
fun fact- the DC metro is actually designed to double as a fallout shelter.
I must have a sushi burrito now.
what up with the super green jacket
The Metro is so ugly though, the architecture is so dark and dank. Then again I have to commute on metro all the time so it isn't new and exciting to me. I love the Phillips though! If you go back you have to eat at Bub and Pops sandwich place (just south of dupont circle) they have the best subs and freshly made potato chips! The Freer and Sackler galleries are also nice and relaxing since they're usually not very crowded.
where next?
Commenting the excesses of our age in a gallery named after the sackler family 😏
Sarah! Hold a meetup next time you're here. :'(
I love your videos. But it's so damn fast!
"Masterpieces of the 20th Century appear throughout this warren of buildings." Illustrated with a 19th Century Renoir. Oops.
Too fast-paced for me!
10:39 "It's a smart city." Okay, so what is a dumb city then?
10:52 "Almost all of it you can experience for free." It isn't free. Taxpayers have payed for the government institutions, and will continue to. The non-government institutions were payed for by rich people and rich groups.
+idiotsloveboxes The Smithsonian is actually mostly paid for by the original endowment and private donations as is the National Gallery of Art. So they are free for the public.
Talks to fast. :-(
Lucky Mark. It sounds like the cultural spots of Washington are wasted on you. Maybe next time get your heardout of your apps.
Because it's really boring to watch.