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Holley Simmons, owner of the flower shop She Loves Me based in Washington, D.C., displays the grocery store-bought bouquet.

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Don't discount grocery store flowers, florist says, but do keep these tips in mind

8:00am February 13, 2022

Roses are red, violets are blue, you forgot to order Valentine's Day flowers, didn't you? This article can help. A florist breaks down the dos and don'ts of DIY store-bought bouquets.

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An artist's Olympic-themed work criticizes China's human rights violations

5:31pm February 12, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with artist Badiucao, whose posters depicting Winter Olympic sports are also a critique of the Chinese government.

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Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso, Hogarth

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Sarah Manguso considers deprivations and predations in her novel 'Very Cold People'

8:00am February 12, 2022

by Heller McAlpin

Manguso made a name for herself in minutely observed memoirs. Now she uses fiction to write about what it is to feel poor, poorly nurtured, and inadequately loved in a class-conscious town.

Banners and signs are hung on a fence at Lafayette Square near the White House, during ongoing protests against police brutality and racism in June 2020. The Library of Congress has digitized some of the pieces of artwork, signs and photographs once displ

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Artwork from the Black Lives Matter memorial has a new home: the Library of Congress

7:18am February 12, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The artwork that once served as a memorial to the movement is being displayed in a new online exhibit at the Library of Congress. So far, 33 pieces are posted.

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How denim evolved to become an American wardrobe staple

5:34pm February 05, 2022

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with fashion historian Emma McClendon about the history of jeans and the new documentary Riveted: The History of Jeans on PBS American Experience.

Children's author and illustrator Ashley Bryan has died at age 98.

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Ashley Bryan, children's illustrator and author, has died at 98

5:01pm February 05, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

He created stories centered on African and African American folk tales and his vibrantly colored collage and paper-cut illustrations adorned the pages of some 50 books.

Lou Stovall's Glazing, 1972. screenprint, 26 x 40 in

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How Lou Stovall took silkscreen-printing from grocery stores to gallery walls

3:20pm February 05, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

The famed silkscreen printer, whose work is on display at the Kreeger Museum's exhibition "Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color," pioneered an artform while building community in Washington, D.C.

Painter Irfan Mohammad works on a truck at a sprawling workshop in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

These eye-popping, hand-painted trucks rule Pakistan's roads

8:02am February 05, 2022

by Hannah Bloch

Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good too, and helped recover missing children.

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A ski jumper flies overhead on the 60-meter ski jump at the Suicide Hill Ski Bowl in Ishpeming, Mich. on March 7, 2021. The Suicide Hill Ski Bowl is home to 5 ski jumps - one being the infamous 90-meter Suicide Hill Ski Jump.

America's birthplace of organized skiing is in Michigan, here's what it looks like

7:29am February 05, 2022

Michigan photographer Nic Antaya started a documenting Ishpeming Ski Club to understand how it has birthed a handful of Olympic athletes and its culture.

Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh, winner of the 2021 RIBA International Prize. The hospital's zig-zag canal collects rainwater and aids in cooling the site.

A rural hospital in Bangladesh is named the world's best new building

5:00am February 05, 2022

by Nell Clark

The prestigious architectural prize celebrates the 80-bed hospital's human-centered design, built in harmony with the waterlogged local environment with a modest budget and local low-cost materials.