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What Makes a Masterpiece?

The Art Assignment is a weekly PBS Digital Studios production hosted by curator Sarah Green. We take you around the U.S. to meet working artists and solicit assignments from them that we can all complete.

What Makes a Masterpiece?

Season 6 Episode 23 | 12m 35s | CC

What do we mean when we call an artwork a MASTERPIECE? Who decides which art becomes one? And what artists make them?

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