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West Village, 2015, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

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  • Architecture

Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins the 2025 Pritzker Prize

The jury cited Liu's "reverence for culture, history and nature, chronicling time and comforting users with familiarity through modern interpretations of classic Chinese architecture."

March 04, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
Cynthia Erivo

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  • Movies

2025 Oscars: See the red carpet looks

The 2025 Oscars start at 7 p.m. EST, 4 p.m. PST Sunday on ABC and Hulu. Conan O'Brien is hosting the show.

March 03, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
Pioneering Black architect Robert Kennard led the team that designed Carson City Hall in Carson, Calif., which opened in 1976.  The team also included Frank Sata and Robert Alexander.

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  • Race

Long ignored, Black modernist architects get recognition

Black architects who helped shape the modern architecture movement have often been overlooked. One effort preserves the structures they designed and tells their stories.

March 02, 2025
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  • Buffy Gorrilla
"50 Years of Hope and HA-HAs" is the first Vietnamese American art exhibit to open in the D.C., Maryland and Virginia region, according to the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

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  • Fine Art

A new art exhibit examines 50 years since the Vietnam War and looks forward with hope

April 2025 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. In Washington, D.C., a new art exhibit offers counter-narratives of what it means to be Vietnamese American.

February 27, 2025
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By:
  • Suzanne Nuyen
A diptych from Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst's "xhairymutantx". The work, originally commissioned as part of a larger piece for the 2024 Whitney Biennial, is among those offered for sale at Christie's landmark AI art auction.

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  • Art & Design

Christie's AI art auction inspires protests – and more art

The upcoming Augmented Intelligence sale represents the first time a major auction house is focusing entirely on works created using machine learning. Artists have mixed feelings about it.

February 17, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials collect facial scans from migrants crossing into the country from the U.S.-Mexico border as part of processing procedures.<br>

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  • Global Health

Prize-winning pictures: Images from this photo contest show tech changing the world

The website Rest of World got entries from 45 countries for a photo contest focusing on technology. Here are their top picks — from facial scans for migrants to kids in a Mongolian tent transfixed by a film.

February 17, 2025
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  • Vicky Hallett
Guests get cozy in a vintage machine at the Photo Booth Museum by Photomatica in San Francisco.

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  • Photography

Squeeze into a photo booth for a Valentine's Day smooch

In honor of Valentine's Day, we stop in at the new Photo Booth Museum in San Francisco to find out how people are using the booths to celebrate their love.

February 14, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
An infrared image of Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, revealing another portrait underneath.

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  • World

A hidden Picasso painting from the early Blue Period is revealed by new technology

Experts analyzing the painting have several theories about why this unidentified woman has remained submerged for more than a century.

February 12, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
A storm drain mural at Hull Park in Savannah was painted as part of a public art program funded by the city in 2022.

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  • Art & Design

'Each community has a story': Savannah seeks input on inaugural master plan for public art

The final proposal will be submitted to City Council in September.

February 12, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
Louvre visitors in front of <em>The Wedding Feast at Cana</em> by Paolo Veronese in June 2024. The painting is among several masterworks that may soon cease to play "second fiddle'" to the Mona Lisa.

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  • Fine Art

Mona Lisa's roommates may be glad she's moving out

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.

January 29, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
The entry to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

The Smithsonian will close its diversity office and freeze federal hiring

The Smithsonian isn't a federal agency, but it gets much of its funding from federal appropriations.

January 29, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech in front of the <em>Mona Lisa</em> by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre in Paris on Tuesday.

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  • World

The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room

French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic says Macron is aiming for another success after restoration of Notre Dame.

January 28, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley and
  • Nick Spicer
A view of <em>Moving Objects: Learning from Local and Global Communities</em> on show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

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  • Art & Design

A museum's confession: Why we have looted objects

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.

January 28, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
An architectural detail of the The Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, photographed in Washington, D.C., in 2014.

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  • Architecture

Will all new federal buildings look like ancient Rome now? Not quite.

Among his day one actions, President Trump is reviving his first-term efforts to promote classical architecture for federal buildings.

January 21, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
Savannah, GA

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  • History

Historic Savannah Foundation launches first-ever 'Endangered Places' initiative

Nominations are being accepted online, with the first list expected to be announced this spring.

January 14, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
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