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News Articles: Art & Design

Wildflower is the new memoir from Aurora James, founder of the luxury accessories brand Brother Vellies as well as the Fifteen Percent Pledge.

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  • Arts & Life

The creator of luxury brand Brother Vellies is fighting for justice in fashion

Shoes and accessories designed by Aurora James sell for hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. In Wildflower, James details how hard it was to get here and the imbalanced economics of high fashion.

July 06, 2023
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By:
  • Reena Advani and
  • Michel Martin
A rendering of a potential mosaic at Five Points Station.

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  • News

MARTA chooses artists for Five Points Station mosaics project

The artworks will serve as both navigational aids and visually striking art pieces, according to a press release.

July 03, 2023
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By:
  • Collin Kelley
Mahsa Amini peers out from a mural by Rodrigo Pradel that covers an entire building side in a Washington, D.C. alley. Amini's death in police custody in Iran last year led to protests and a revolutionary movement.

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  • Arts & Life

'It's not over yet': Artists work to keep Iran's protests in view

Mahsa Amini's death in the custody of Iranian police sparked protests and a global movement on women's issues. Artists in the U.S. are working to keep it all from fading from view.

July 03, 2023
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By:
  • Majd Al-Waheidi
Russell Craig, "Cognitive Thinking," 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

From prison to art gallery, former inmates take center stage

A look inside the Ford Foundation Gallery's exhibition "No Justice Without Love" featuring art by former inmates

June 07, 2023
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By:
  • Mansee Khurana

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  • Photography

A Korean American connects her past and future through photography

Through her work, photographer Arin Yoon re-examines her connection to the U.S., reconsidering histories while exploring her connection to the landscape, her children and their past and future selves.

May 30, 2023
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By:
  • Arin Yoon
Keith Haring at his Pop Shop in SoHo, 1986

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  • Fine Art

An exhibition of Keith Haring's art and activism makes clear: 'Art is for everybody'

In the 1980s, Haring's cartoon-like images were everywhere — his figures of dancers, hearts, babies and dogs remain pop culture motifs. A new exhibition celebrates the artist who died in 1990 at 31.

May 27, 2023
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By:
  • Mandalit del Barco
The CPSC commissioned new stock photos showing Americans with disabilities using a variety of home safety devices, including portable generators.

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  • Health

People with disabilities aren't often seen in stock photos. The CPSC is changing that

The Consumer Product Safety Commission took photos of people with disabilities using home safety devices like flashlights and smoke alarms — then put them in the public domain for anyone to use.

May 23, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
GPB News NPR

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  • Business

LA's housing crisis raises concerns that the Fashion District will get squeezed

Los Angeles is planning to add 100,000 new apartments downtown. Garment workers and others now fear L.A.'s Fashion District and its factories won't survive the city's downtown housing boom.

May 19, 2023
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By:
  • David Wagner
A portrait of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith (left) in 1981 and 16 silk-screened images Andy Warhol later created using the photo as a reference.

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  • Arts & Life

Supreme Court sides against Andy Warhol Foundation in copyright infringement case

In its 7-2 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court said the late artist infringed on a photographer's copyright when he created a series of works based on an image of the pop star Prince.

May 19, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
John R. Gossage, <em>Portrait of Walter Hopps,</em> 1969. Photograph. The Menil Collection, Houston, Promised Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps.

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  • Fine Art

Meet the eye-opening curator behind hundreds of modern art exhibitions

Walter Hopps was a visionary and — long before Instagram — an influencer. The Menil Collection in Houston is showing works by 70 artists Hopps spotted, acquired, encouraged or enabled as a curator.

May 18, 2023
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  • Susan Stamberg
Twenty-two timber cabins, built for enslaved people, are on the Evergreen Plantation in the West Bank of St. John the Baptist Parish, La.

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  • Architecture

Here's the latest list of the '11 Most Endangered Historic Places' in the U.S.

"It's very hard to narrow the list," says the Chief Preservation Officer of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The 2023 list includes a gas station, an artist studio and two Chinatowns.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Visitors to "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" at the New Museum are greeted by "In Two Canoe" (foreground) and "For Whom the Bell Tolls," two sculptures by the Kenyan-born artist that feature fantastical hybrid creatures set against a landscape that uses gray emergency relief blankets to depict the silhouette of Mount Kenya.

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  • Art & Design

The fantastical art of Wangechi Mutu: from plant people to a 31-foot snake

Mutu, who lives in Nairobi and Brooklyn, is the star of a show at New York's New Museum. Her art takes on viruses, genocide, junk mail (the "sleeping serpent" is full of it), her own hybrid identity.

May 08, 2023
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By:
  • Vicky Hallett
Gabriel García Márquez attends a Latin American film festival in Havana, on Dec. 5, 2006. A previously unpublished novel by the late Colombian author is due out next year.

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  • Books

An unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez is set for release next year

Arriving 10 years after the author's death, the roughly 150-page novel will contain five sections centered around a character named Ana Magdalena Bach.

May 04, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
An iteration of Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" has previously sold for $120,000, most famously at Art Basel Miami in 2019. A college student who recently viewed the art in a Seoul museum said he ate the banana after skipping breakfast.

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  • Pop Culture

The guy who ate a $120,000 banana in an art museum says he was just hungry

The banana installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan evokes everything from slapstick comedy to global trade. But to a college student, it was a reminder of how very hungry he was.

May 01, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
GPB News NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Photographer's decade-long, 600,000 mile journey shows Indigenous life in new book

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Matika Wilbur about her new book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America.

April 27, 2023
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  • Michael Levitt,
  • Melissa Block,
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