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News Articles: Art & Design

Attendees watch and dance as New Dangerfield performs during the Biscuit & Banjos festival in Durham, N.C., on April 26.

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  • Photography

Rhiannon Giddens' new music festival celebrates Black music, art, culture in N.C.

Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens brings Biscuits & Banjos, a music festival that features Black musicians on guitars, fiddles and banjos, history, dancing and more, to Durham, N.C.

April 29, 2025
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By:
  • Cornell Watson and
  • Emily Bogle
Ronald Reagan, Amelia Earhart, Kobe Bryant and Albert Einstein will be among those honored in the National Garden of American Heroes.

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  • Arts & Life

Artists wanted for Trump's National Garden of American Heroes 

The National Endowment for the Humanities says the project will "honor the statesmen, visionaries, and innovators who shaped the nation." It's a lot of statues.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
"Correspondence is a leap of faith, and that is part of what makes it wonderful," says Rachel Syme, author of <em>Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence</em>. "You may never know if the person you are writing to will write you back."

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  • Books

The delightfully analog art of letter-writing

Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence," shares whimsical ways to start a letter-writing habit.

April 24, 2025
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By:
  • Marielle Segarra and
  • Sam Yellowhorse Kesler
Artist Arewà Basit poses in front of <em>Trans Forming Liberty </em>(2024), a 10-foot oil painting by Amy Sherald.<br>

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  • Fine Art

Painter Amy Sherald asks: What is American?

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

April 09, 2025
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  • Olivia Hampton

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Art fair flyers should showcase human creativity

Organizers of Oakland's First Fridays art festival made a flyer promoting the event using AI, and are facing backlash for not using an actual artist. NPR's Scott Simon explains.

April 05, 2025
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  • Scott Simon
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres,<em> Jamese Jefferson and Gloria Bollock</em>, 1992, acrylic on Hydrocal plaster life cast

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  • Fine Art

This art exhibition is 'divisive' or 'eye-opening' — it depends who you ask

A new White House executive order says the exhibition is an example of how the Smithsonian portrays "American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive."

April 02, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Prior to the Eaton Fire in January 2025, the Zane Grey Estate was a beloved historical and cultural landmark — the former home of Western novelist Zane Grey.

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  • History

Beloved historic landmarks navigate an uncertain future after the LA fires

In Pasadena, The Gamble House was in a fire evacuation zone and its custodians are trying to safeguard its future. In Altadena, only concrete walls are left from the former home of novelist Zane Grey.

March 31, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
The site of a former lead and zinc mine in Kabwe, Zambia. Thirty years after the closure of the mine, the land remains highly contaminated — and artisanal miners continue to work here, exposing themselves daily to dangerously high levels of lead.

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  • Global Health

This may be the most lead polluted place on Earth. Is there any hope?

The U.N. has identified Kabwe, a city of almost 300,000 people in Zambia, as one of the most polluted places on the planet. Who is to blame? And can justice be done?

March 30, 2025
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By:
  • Julie Bourdin and
  • Photos by Tommy Trenchard
A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Many ancient statues were scented, a researcher says.

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  • History

Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

March 25, 2025
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  • James Doubek
mural of President and Mrs. Carter greets visitors at Atlanta's airport

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  • Art & Design

Atlanta airport unveils mural of the Carters

Visitors to Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest, are now greeted with a large mural honoring former President Jimmy and first lady Rosalynn Carter.

March 24, 2025
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  • GPB News Staff
The Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kan., says more young people have been attending exhibitions since it decided to stop charging admissions for its permanent collection in 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

Report: (Smaller) Museums should make admission free

A new study out this week from the museum think tank Remuseum suggests free admission attracts more visitors without increasing costs.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
The boy and bird are, of course, not really flying together. But ... they are both airborne. The child is jumping into the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand, during a heatwave in February 2024. Photographer Andre Malerba notes: "This image recalls the free feeling of leaping from several times one's height into water to escape the heat as friends laugh and cheer you on. A time many of us might remember as when we felt truly whole and at peace, even if life wasn't perfect. It's always worth realizing t…

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  • Global Health

Can you look at these 9 photos and not smile on International Day of Happiness?

March 20 is International Happiness Day — a day that the United Nations had dedicated to the celebration of joy. We asked photographers around the world to share a picture that can bring bliss.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Marc Silver and
  • Ben de la Cruz

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  • Global Health

Here are 8 photography winners with disabilities who show the world their perspective

Here are the winning entries in this year's Global Ability Photography Challenge.

March 15, 2025
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By:
  • Charu Bahri
The sister of the brand's founder, Gianni Versace, served as the creative director for 28 years.

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  • Arts & Life

Donatella Versace to step down as brand's chief creative officer after nearly 30 years

Donatella took over the brand after the murder of her brother, Gianni Versace, its founder, in 1997. Her bold creative vision and unique style have been instrumental in preserving the Versace legacy.

March 13, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
2nd place winner - "This photograph was captured during my trip to Blitar, East Java Indonesia. I was travelling to a small village named Kampung Nusantara. That day when I was walking around the village, I met Mbok Sutinah, 82 years, a grandma who's been selling watermelon since 1987 after her husband passed away to support her family."

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  • Global Health

Portraits of women who 'shine a light': from an 'analog' astronaut to a watermelon farmer

The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, has a new photo exhibit in honor of International Women's Day: "Iconic Women: From Everyday Life to Global Heroes."

March 08, 2025
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  • Diane Cole
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