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The 'visible mending' trend of fixing clothes can be traced to a Japanese tradition

8:57am March 26, 2022

by Debbie Elliott

The "visible mending" movement is being driven by individuals concerned about the environmental impact of new clothing. But its roots go back centuries to the Japanese tradition of sachiko.

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A Pa. museum is paying Black residents back on their overtaxed and undervalued homes

8:03am March 26, 2022

by Bill O'Driscoll

A Pittsburgh artist has collaborated with a local museum to address the inequities Black homeowners experience when they are overtaxed by city officials.

Rapper Andrew Hean, whose family owned a donut shop in California, is pictured in a silkscreen print on a donut box by artist Phung Huynh.

Pink donut boxes are canvas for artist portraying kids of Cambodian-American refugees

5:00am March 22, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Artist Phung Huynh incorporates pink donut boxes into her portraits of young Cambodian-Americans who grew up in their family donut stores in Southern California.

Twenty-year-old Rusul Ahmed has painted several of the murals in Mosul. She says after the dark period of ISIS, the colorful murals make people happy.

In Iraq's Mosul, art springs up from ruins almost 5 years after the ouster of ISIS

5:22pm March 20, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

This vibrant street art is a sign of the spirited rebuilding going on in the northern Iraqi city, after ISIS was defeated in 2017.

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Pritzker winner Diébédo Francis Kéré makes buildings to serve West African community

2:56pm March 20, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Diébédo Francis Kéré, the first African to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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Some of the vendors at the Broadway Makers Marketplace, which carries their handmade goods

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At the Broadway Makers Marketplace, theater fans find both crafts and community

5:22pm March 19, 2022

by Jeff Lunden

A pop-up shop in a New York subway station is home to all things Broadway: memorabilia, live performances and handmade goods created by fans. Now, the shop's owners hope to find a permanent home.

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Artists in Mexico City are trying to preserve the capital city's rich soundscape

7:40am March 17, 2022

by Rodrigo Cervantes

In Mexico City, some artists are building projects and public spaces specially designed to listen, learn and enjoy. (This story originally aired on Here and Now on July 1, 2019.)

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Vitaliy Kulyk, who used to run Lviv's tourist office, has been working 12-hour days, trying to protect the city's statues.

Ukraine scrambles to protect artifacts and monuments from Russian attack

3:05pm March 15, 2022

by Lauren Frayer

On top of the humanitarian crisis, Ukrainians worry about Russian destruction of cultural heritage sites. In Lviv, they're wrapping statues in fireproof material to protect them from Russian bombs.

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Diébédo Francis Kéré, this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize winner.

For the first time in its history, architecture's top award goes to a Black architect

10:00am March 15, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

The 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize honors Diébédo Francis Kéré, who comes from a village with no school in Burkina Faso. He has designed primary schools for "many children to be happy and learn."

Installation view of Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, in "Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby."

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A mad scientist and his bird in a bubble: The story behind a peculiar painting

6:09am March 15, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

The Los Angeles-area Huntington Museum and London's National Gallery are swapping two paintings: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy for Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.