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Atlanta-based artist Anderson Smith at his gallery in Buckhead Village.

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How Anderson Smith's art inspires you to 'see something different' every time

Atlanta's first ever Art Week is now underway. It's a celebration of the visual arts happening across the city through Sunday. Art lovers strolling through Buckhead Village will find a new gallery featuring the work of Atlanta's Anderson Smith.

 

September 30, 2022
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  • Peter Biello
Fishermen haul in a fishing net in the eastern central Atlantic off Senegal. Belgian photographer Pierre Vanneste documents commercial fishing in his black-and-white photos.

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  • Art & Design

Must-see art from Senegal's Biennale: Sculptures of sugar, paintings of old postcards

Sidelined by the pandemic, the Dakar Biennale is back. The theme of this year's festival is "Ĩ Ndaffa" — meaning "out of the fire," as artists forge bold visions of the world.

June 10, 2022
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  • Nick Roll
Fishermen haul in a fishing net in the eastern central Atlantic off Senegal. Belgian photographer Pierre Vanneste documents commercial fishing in his black-and-white photos.

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  • Art & Design

Must-see art from Senegal's Biennale: Sculptures of sugar, paintings of old postcards

Sidelined by the pandemic, the Dakar Biennale is back. The theme of this year's festival is "Ĩ Ndaffa" — meaning "out of the fire," as artists forge bold visions of the world.

June 10, 2022
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  • Nick Roll
Winfred Rembert

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Georgia's latest Pulitzer Prize winner awarded posthumously

The late Winfred Rembert rose from humble beginnings in Cuthbert, Ga. to critical acclaim.

May 26, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
Albany Museum of Art Katie Dillard unpacks a repaired painting by glass artist Dale Chihuly while mounting the show titled "Homecoming" recently.

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  • Fine Art

A new exhibit at Albany's Art Museum celebrates surviving a natural disaster

A new exhibit now open at the Albany Museum of Art this week celebrates the treasures in the museum collection and how they survived a 2017 tornado.

May 13, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
A mural of Melissa Ortega, an 8-year-old victim of gun violence in Chicago, painted by artist Milton Coronado.

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Opinion: Painting the smiles of people we know, love and will never see again

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the work of Chicago-based artist Milton Coronado, who paints murals that memorialize people killed by gun violence.

April 30, 2022
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  • Scott Simon

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  • Arts & Life

22 tips for 2022: Get creative, even if you aren't feeling inspired

There are lots of benefits to creating art. Experts say if you spend just 10 minutes of random art-making, it will help you kick-start the habit — no creative inspiration required.

January 18, 2022
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  • Malaka Gharib
Kevin Lewis' portrait of George Stinney.

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Macon museum's 'Block the Hate' exhibit is aimed at taking you back to the summer of 2020

A new exhibit at Macon’s Tubman African American Museum documents the movement for Black lives in the city. The exhibit is also meant to spur more reconciliation with Macon’s past.

December 28, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
A pen and black ink drawing by Albrecht Dürer titled "The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a grassy Bench" is seen at London Art Week dealer Agnews, on Nov. 19, in London.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Albrecht Dürer's lesson for all of us today

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on "The Virgin and Child with a Flower on a Grassy Bank," by Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. The previously unknown drawing was unveiled this week in London.

December 18, 2021
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  • Scott Simon
Plates depicting what two juveniles on Death Row ate for their final meals, painted by artist Julie Green.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Artist Julie Green, who depicted humanity of death row inmates, has died

NPR's Scott Simon remembers artist Julie Green, who died this week. Green's painted plate project, "The Last Supper," depicts the final meal of death row inmates.

October 23, 2021
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  • Scott Simon
Aminah Robinson in her home

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  • Fine Art

Buttons, beads and bravado: Celebrating the simple joy in Aminah Robinson's art

The first retrospective to display Robinson's work after her 2015 death, Raggin' On at the Columbus Museum of Art celebrates the grandeur of simple objects and everyday tasks.

October 01, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Henry Ossawa Tanner,<em> The Thankful Poor,</em> 1894, oil on canvas, Art Bridges

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  • Fine Art

X-Rays And Infrared Reveal The Story Of The 1st Internationally Known Black Painter

Born in Pittsburgh in 1859, Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to Paris, where he found "nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears." Recent conservation work explores his artistic process.

September 08, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
In<em> Voyages of an African Victorian, </em>a woman wears a Victorian-style dress made of African fabrics.

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  • Photography

Why A Zimbabwean Photographer Asked Her Subjects To Pose In Victorian Garb

"African Victorian," a series of unconventional portraits by Zimbabwean photographer Tamary Kudita, combines Victorian fashion with her country's culture to examine the impact of the colonial era.

May 31, 2021
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  • Diane Cole
Minnie Adkins stands in her yard in Elliott County, Ky., holding her carving of a possum with baby possums dangling on its tail.

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  • National

During The Pandemic She Whittled Away At The Isolation By, Well, Whittling

The pandemic affected us all in varied ways. One 87-year-old woman spent almost all of it completely alone, whittling. "I don't know what I would have done without my carving," Minnie Adkins says.

May 13, 2021
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  • Cheri Lawson
Duo Together

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  • Arts & Life

Georgia Poets Use Their Art For Social Justice

GPB Morning Edition host Leah Fleming spoke with Georgia poets, Marco Soulo and Signature MiMi, who are expressing through their art what many in the country are feeling. Click to hear how they tap into their voices.

April 24, 2021
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  • Leah Fleming and
  • Tiffany Griffith
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