Art & Design

Julie Green's The Last Supper is currently on view at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Wash. There are 800 plates in the exhibit.

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Julie Green, who painted plates with the last meals of death row inmates, has died

4:04pm October 21, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

The ongoing project, entitled The Last Supper, featured prisoner's final meal requests, from a stuffed-crust meat lover's pizza to an apple pie to a Coke.

Dakota artist's piece stands where controversial sculpture sparked protests

6:15am October 20, 2021

by Euan Kerr

Four years after the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis was rocked by protests over a sculpture that inflamed the indigenous community, a new structure by artist Angela Two Stars helps to make amends.

From left to right: Teachers Mark Sujak, Sarah Lorraine, Jeremy Robinson and Sophia Faridi pose with students and podcast finalists Julian Fausto and Eric Guadarrama for portraits in front of Morton East High School, in Cicero, Ill.

Don't judge these teens by their tattoos

6:49am October 16, 2021

by Sequoia Carrillo

Two Chicago-area high school podcasters say they've dreamed about tattoos since they were little. And they argue that people who have them shouldn't be judged by what's on the outside.

Grete Bergman, left, and Sarah Whalen-Lunn at their StoryCorps recording in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2018.

With 3 bold marks, Indigenous women helped revive a once-banned tradition

9:10am October 15, 2021

Grete Bergman was among the first Gwich'in women to get traditional facial markings since colonizers barred the practice. She and markings artist Sarah Whalen-Lunn did it for their daughters.

Yolanda López died on Sept. 3 of complications liver cancer. Her first museum solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego was delayed by a year due, in part, to the pandemic.

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Yolanda López's first museum show opens Saturday, just weeks after the artist's death

5:00am October 15, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

The exhibit at San Diego's Museum of Contemporary Art will include 50 of the artist's pieces, including the Virgen de Guadalupe triptych which remains one of López's best known works.

Urban Outfitters, Philadelphia. Julie Bargmann's studio finds ways to reuse salvaged materials in redeveloping industrial sites, such as the decommissioned Navy Yard that became the headquarters of retailer Urban Outfitters.

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She reclaims toxic waste dumps, and she just won a major landscape architecture award

5:16pm October 14, 2021

by Neda Ulaby

Julie Bargmann, the first recipient of the Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, redesigns waste dumps, landfills, Superfund sites — places she calls "the gnarliest."

Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" (2018) is installed at Sotheby's on September 03, 2021 in London, England.

A half-shredded Banksy piece is auctioned for $25.4 million, a record for the artist

5:06pm October 14, 2021

by Sharon Pruitt-Young

"Love is in the Bin" made history when it was created during a 2018 auction. The crowd back then was shocked when a shredder activated as soon as the sale was complete, partly shredding the piece.

In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 file photo, visitors take photos of the 3D re-production of Michelangelo's David at the Italy's pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. One of the most talked about attractions at the world's fair under

Art or censorship? Expo shows just top of famed David statue

4:12am October 13, 2021

by The Associated Press

When visitors make their way to Italy's pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020, most will only see the head of Michelangelo's famous statue

Ruthie Tompson at a screening at the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 28, 2018 in Hollywood, California. The legendary Disney animator passed away on Sunday at the age of 111.

Ruthie Tompson, an animator with the longest history at Disney, dies at 111

3:29pm October 12, 2021

by Rachel Treisman

Ruthie Tompson's painting and animation work at the Walt Disney Company dates back to the 1920s — from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Rescuers.

Hayao Miyazaki, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

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You can now enter Hayao Miyazaki's enchanting animated world at the Academy Museum

11:06am October 10, 2021

by Mandalit del Barco

For the first time outside of his home country, the Japanese filmmaker's work is being featured in a major retrospective at the brand-new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

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