Chinese American Artist Draws 'The Wuhan I Know'
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with artist Laura Gao about her comic "The Wuhan I Know." Gao is a native of Wuhan, China — the first city shut down by the coronavirus.
Art & Design
An LA Native Drives Us Through His Hometown — Using Google Street View
Multidisciplinary artist Felix Quintana created honest portraits of South Central Los Angeles' people and urban landscape with the help of archived images.
30 Years Ago, An Audacious Museum Heist In Boston
On March 18, 1990 — 30 years ago — two thieves walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, tied up security guards and made off with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Provocateur And Industrial Co-Creator, Dead At 70
The Manchester-raised artist was an invariably complicated and controversial figure, said to exert an unhealthy level of control over their collaborators.
Thrift Store Wood Engraving Print Turns Out To Be Salvador Dalí Artwork
"I needed to ... take it out of the frame, which was old and dusty, to take a closer look because it is very rare to find something like this at a thrift store," said art expert Melanie Smith.
'Making Is About Our Survival': Exhibition Celebrates Artwork Of Native Women
The "Hearts of Our People" exhibition is devoted entirely to the art of Native American women past and present. "We're still very powerfully here," says Anita Fields, one of the artists in the show.
Photographer Documents The Personal Items Confiscated By Border Patrol
After Border Patrol agents confiscated personal items from migrants caught near the Arizona/Mexico border, a photographer working as a janitor would go back and rescue them from the trash.
For The 1st Time, Architecture's Most Prestigious Prize Is Awarded To 2 Women
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara founded Grafton Architects in Dublin in 1978. The Pritzker Architecture Prize jury called the two Irish architects "beacons" in a male-dominated field.
Get A Glimpse Of Labor, Leisure And Everyday Life In Paris' Belle Époque
In the decades before World War I, French artists began painting scenes of ordinary life — on the street, at work, at home, in clubs and cafes. Their work elevated common acts into fine art.
How A Graphic Novel Resurrected A Forgotten Chapter In American History
In Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, Native artists retell the events of a brutal massacre in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania and bring a painful history to life on the page.