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What Art tells us about Gender

There is a huge range of ways that gender has been understood and represented in the history of art. We look at a few examples that show us gender is a concept that has never been fixed: Hermaphroditos by the ancient Greeks, Titian's Venus of Urbino, Baule portrait masks, the photographs of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, and Maya stone carvings.
Season 6 Episode 4 Length 14:38 Premiere: 05/23/19

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Season 6 Episodes

Make a Book with Meat (or other atypical materials)
S6 E32 Length 05:25 Premiere Date 08/06/20

The Definition of Art
S6 E31 Length 13:04 Premiere Date 07/23/20

Art That Was Never Finished
S6 E29 Length 09:32 Premiere Date 06/25/20

Make a Cut-Out with Cécile McLorin Salvant
S6 E28 Length 06:50 Premiere Date 06/11/20

Art Made in Adversity
S6 E27 Length 06:14 Premiere Date 05/21/20

Art That Brings Me Comfort
S6 E26 Length 11:38 Premiere Date 05/07/20

Creativity is Overrated
S6 E25 Length 09:55 Premiere Date 04/14/20

What This Painting Tells Us About Frida Kahlo
S6 E24 Length 09:26 Premiere Date 03/26/20

What Makes a Masterpiece?
S6 E23 Length 12:35 Premiere Date 03/12/20

The Case for Video Games
S6 E22 Length 12:45 Premiere Date 02/27/20

Having a Coke with Frank O'Hara
S6 E21 Length 15:29 Premiere Date 02/13/20

Art Therapize Yourself
S6 E20 Length 12:00 Premiere Date 01/30/20

Why Is This Woman in the Jungle?
S6 E19 Length 11:59 Premiere Date 01/16/20

The $150,000 Banana
S6 E18 Length 11:51 Premiere Date 01/03/20

Is Instagram Changing Art?
S6 E17 Length 11:16 Premiere Date 12/19/19

Why Do Corporations Buy Art?
S6 E16 Length 10:23 Premiere Date 11/14/19

My Top 40 Art Reflections
S6 E15 Length 09:25 Premiere Date 10/31/19

The Case for Impressionism
S6 E14 Length 12:41 Premiere Date 10/17/19

How to Sound like you Understand Art
S6 E13 Length 12:30 Premiere Date 10/03/19

What Did Monet Eat in a Day?
S6 E12 Length 21:34 Premiere Date 09/19/19

Art and Empathy
S6 E10 Length 16:02 Premiere Date 08/22/19

Whose Migrant Mother was this?
S6 E9 Length 10:59 Premiere Date 08/08/19

How Climate Changes Art
S6 E8 Length 15:40 Premiere Date 07/25/19

Art We Launched Into Space
S6 E7 Length 14:08 Premiere Date 07/11/19

What Does Resistance Look Like?
S6 E6 Length 14:02 Premiere Date 06/20/19

A Video Game about Art?
S6 E5 Length 15:05 Premiere Date 06/09/19

What Art tells us about Gender
S6 E4 Length 14:38 Premiere Date 05/23/19

Should Art Be Publicly Funded?
S6 E3 Length 11:51 Premiere Date 05/09/19

Art About Migration
S6 E2 Length 16:33 Premiere Date 04/25/19

Eat Like Andy Warhol
S6 E1 Length 17:26 Premiere Date 04/11/19

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