Encore: Artist Ai Weiwei on his father's exile and hopes for his own son
In this encore presentation, NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to artist Ai Weiwei about his memoir, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows.
Art & Design
How do you write a captivating thriller? This author found clues in the woods
Megan Miranda's latest summer thriller, The Last to Vanish, is set in a small hiking town in North Carolina, where 7 people have disappeared in the woods. Were they all accidents or was it something more sinister?
Artist Tunde Olaniran's 'Made a Universe' opens a portal at a Detroit museum
Musician and artist Tunde Olaniran is a rising star from Flint, Michigan whose exuberant work comments on serious issues such as environmental injustice and the carceral state.
Japan's traditional crafts are struggling to survive the country's population decline
The city of Kanazawa produces most of Japan's fine gold leaf, but there aren't enough young people to take over the craft. The same situation is playing out for small family businesses across Japan.
A project named for 'Peanuts' character Franklin aims to boost Black animators
The Armstrong Project provides two $100,000 endowments to Howard University and Hampton University.
Encore: East LA exhibit features Latinx artists using sound
The Vincent Price Museum in East L.A. features a major exhibition of Latinx artists using sound in their work, from demolishing a piano to dedicating musical oldies to incarcerated loved ones.
Encore: Whistler's Mother, meet Whistler's very, very close friend
A dreamy woman in white painted by James McNeill Whistler is the center of a new show at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Seeing myself reflected in art allowed me to feel comfortable making my own
I was taught about Picasso and van Gogh, but I never saw myself in their work. Then I learned about Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance, and they inspired me to try abstract pictures.
A Black church in Alabama and 32 other sites get a historic preservation lifeline
NPR's Juana Summers talks with African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund's Brent Leggs and Maxwell Brown Chapel AME Church's Juanda about grants to preserve African-American cultural sites.
Remembering sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who made monumental everyday objects
Works by the Swedish-born artist include an oversized rubber stamp in Cleveland, a clothespin in Philadelphia and a flashlight in Las Vegas. Oldenburg died July 18. Originally broadcast in 1992.