Art & Design

A Texas town gets its portrait on a silo

5:05am September 06, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

Australian artist Guido Van Helten is known for his large-scale murals, often painted on abandoned industrial sites. Now he's telling the stories of McKinney, Texas, on the sides of its grain silos.

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Artists are unhappy with a man who submitted AI artwork to a contest

7:07am September 05, 2022

Jason Allen won $300 using a piece of artwork generated by an artificial intelligence.

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Taliban guards stand at the entrance of the National Museum of Afghanistan after it reopened under Taliban control in Kabul in December.

The Taliban now guard Afghanistan's National Museum, where they once smashed objects

9:00am September 01, 2022

When the Taliban returned to power, cultural heritage advocates worried history might repeat itself and the group would destroy objects it found offensive. The museum is open now but has few visitors.

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DC Comics covers featuring Green Lantern holding tamales, Hawkwoman holding platanos fritos, and Blue Beetle holding tacos.

DC Comics reduces Latinos to their food in Hispanic Heritage Month covers, fans say

5:01am August 30, 2022

by Pablo Valdivia

Latino comic book fans have taken to social media to call out DC Comics' latest attempt at appealing to their Latino fans. Art shows DC superheroes holding or eating a variety of Latin American foods.

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Artists at 100-year-old Santa Fe Indian Market say it's now a place of innovation

4:58pm August 23, 2022

by Alice Fordham

Santa Fe Indian Market marked its 100th anniversary. It began as a way of preserving what white curators thought of as traditional, but artists say the market today is a place of innovation.

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New York art museums must now disclose if a piece was stolen by Nazis

1:27pm August 21, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe talks with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Andrea Bayer about a new New York law requiring museums to acknowledge if a work of art was stolen by the Nazi regime.

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A new exhibit in LA explores the complicated history of Black Cinema

5:00am August 21, 2022

by Mandalit del Barco

"Regeneration" examines 73 years of film history, from the silent movie days to the rise of the Blaxploitation era.

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How to take better photos

5:12pm August 20, 2022

Is it even a vacation if you don't have the pics to prove it? NPR's Life Kit has tip from a professional photographer on getting the most out of your camera.

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African fashion rules in British museum show, from chic dashikis to mud-dyed cloth

9:01am August 20, 2022

by Willem Marx

A new exhibit at Victoria and Albert Museum corrects the misperception that high fashion belongs to Western designers. The fierce garments attest to the motto of a Ghanaian: "West is not always best."

Rafael López poses with his mariachi stamps in a classroom at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. The set was launched in August.

For the first time, the Postal Service features mariachi musicians on stamps

7:19pm August 14, 2022

by Gabriel J. Sánchez

Artist Rafael López used his upbringing in Mexico City for inspiration. It took two years of development before the set launched, and each stamp will carry on a cultural legacy forever.