Art & Design

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A Moat? A Ditch? How To Secure The White House Grounds

11:46am June 15, 2015

How do you design a White House fence to keep out intruders, without making the president's front lawn feel like a prison yard? Architecture critic Alexandra Lange tells NPR's Scott Simon.

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This Land Is What Land?

12:38am June 11, 2015

Geographically challenged? No problem. In this game contestants are given fake origins for the names of real geographic locations that end in the letters L-A-N-D.

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Goodfellas

12:38am June 11, 2015

All the answers are real people who, although they were never in the Mob, could be considered "good fellas" because they have the word "Good" in their name.

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Boston Public Library President Amy Ryan, left, and Conservation Officer Lauren Shott hold the recovered prints by Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt van Rijn.

Lost And Found: Missing Rembrandt, Dürer Prints Turn Up At Boston Library

4:27pm June 05, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Worth a combined $630,000, they were found misfiled after an exhaustive, eight-week search of the stacks. But not before an FBI probe was launched and the library's president resigned.

Getting A Tattoo Is An Unlikely Rite Of Passage For This Teen

10:46pm June 01, 2015

by Katie Davis

Commentator Katie Davis helped with an unlikely coming of age ceremony for a young man she mentored and tutored for years. She took him to get his first tattoo.

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Skeletal Horse On Trafalgar Square's 4th Plinth Is Art And A Stock Ticker

7:38pm June 01, 2015

by Ari Shapiro

A bold statue has taken up residence in London's iconic Trafalgar Square — part of a public art project that's been going on for more than a decade. The skeletal horse replaces a giant blue rooster.

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An Epic Art Tale: Commissioned By Hitler, Recovered By German Police

11:14am May 30, 2015

Dutch art detective Arthur Brand helped recover the pieces — including two bronze horses that used to stand outside the Reich Chancellery and which were thought to have been destroyed in the war.

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Rekha is one of the many caged prostitutes Mary Ellen Mark came to know as she photographed in the red-light district of Mumbai.

Mary Ellen Mark And The Caged Prostitutes Of Mumbai

9:55am May 30, 2015

by Andrew Boryga

The photographer, who died this week, turned her lens on the marginal people of the world. One of her most acclaimed projects was her series of photos taken in the brothels of Mumbai.

Photographer Gabriel Garcia Roman's "Queer Icons" series portrays queer people of color as saints and warriors. Jahmal Golden is a poet and a student at The New School.

Not Your Mother's Catholic Frescoes: Radiant Portraits Of Queer People Of Color

4:54pm May 29, 2015

by Maanvi Singh

Inspired by Mexican religious art, photographer Gabriel Garcia Roman portrays queer people of color as saints and warriors.

A blind visitor to Spain's Prado Museum runs his fingers across a 3-D copy of the Mona Lisa, painted by an apprentice to Leonardo da Vinci.

Do Touch The Artwork At Prado's Exhibit For The Blind

9:38am May 27, 2015

by Lauren Frayer

The renowned Spanish museum has made 3-D copies of some of its most iconic works to allow blind people to feel them.

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