Picturing Queer Africans In The Diaspora
A photographer uses his lens to peer through perceptions of queerness in his ancestral home.
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This Week In Race: Census Worries, Yellowface And Kendall Jenner. Again.
In this edition: posers, pretenders and passers.
Don't Be Fooled: 'Generation Wealth' Is More About Wanting Than Having
Lauren Greenfield's 500-page photo collection shows toddlers in designer clothes and magnums of champagne. But it's also about how ostentatious displays of wealth have replaced real social mobility.
Museum Of Ice Cream Opens In Los Angeles
A Museum of Ice Cream has opened in Los Angeles featuring a swimming pool full of sprinkles. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with co-founder Maryellis Bunn.
Crayola Gives The People What They Want: A New Blue Crayon
After Crayola announced it was retiring the yellow crayon Dandelion, the company said its replacement would be blue, but would it be a true blue? No, it's actually an accidental blue.
LA's 14th Factory Offers A Warehouse Full Of Art And 'Otherworldly' Experiences
Artist Simon Birch sunk everything he had into creating the immersive (and enormous) pop-up art space. He says, "It's not like a traditional museum. ... It's the exhibition I'd want to go to."
Here's How The Obama Presidential Center Will Look
The Center will be located in the Jackson Park neighborhood of Chicago's South side and it will include three buildings — a museum, forum and library that surround a public plaza.
Nation's Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S. Students In Visual Arts, Music
It's the first time since 2008 that the federal government has released its assessment of U.S. eighth-graders in the arts. While there are some signs of progress, troubling achievement gaps remain.
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Artist Sets Futuristic Dinner Party In World Reshaped By Rising Seas
How will our diets shift as climate change causes sea-level rise and coastal flooding? Photographer Allie Wist attempts to answer that with pictures of an imagined "post-sea-level-rise dinner party."
Audio Installation Haunts Underground Arts Space In Washington, D.C.
A new audio exhibit at Dupont Underground breathes life into an old, subterranean trolley station in Washington, D.C. The Wind That Blows Is All That Anybody Knows is by artist Eric Dickson.