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Robert Adams, <em>Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs</em>, 1969 gelatin silver print image: 14 x 14.9 cm (5 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.) Private collection, San Francisco.

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  • Photography

America, the (disappearing) beautiful

Robert Adams' obsession with the decay and beauty of the American landscape is on display at the National Gallery's exhibition "American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams."

August 12, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
This undated photo provided by The J. Paul Getty Museum shows Sculptural Group of a Seated Poet and Sirens.

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  • Art & Design

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles says it will return illegally exported art to Italy

The museum says it will return a nearly life-size group of Greek terra-cotta sculptures known as "Orpheus and the Sirens," believed to date from the fourth century B.C.

August 12, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
New York pop artist KAWS has designed boxes for the General Mills Monster Cereals Count Chocula, Franken Berry, Boo Berry and Frute Brute.

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  • Pop Culture

General Mills' classic Monster Cereals are back with a reimagined look

Artist KAWS has designed boxes — and collectible prizes — for Franken Berry, Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Frute Brute, which are back for General Mills' seasonal release of Monster Cereals.

August 11, 2022
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  • Halisia Hubbard
Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, delivers the keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference in 2003 in San Francisco. Jobs created a personal uniform for himself that featured a black turtleneck from Japanese designer Issey Miyake.

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  • Art & Design

The story of Steve Jobs and Issey Miyake's friendship (and a nixed Apple uniform)

Before Jobs adopted his classic black turtleneck, he approached Japanese designer Issey Miyake to see if he could create a uniform for Apple employees. But company employees were not fans.

August 10, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
<em>Vision divine du 11 Mars 1948</em>, is a series of eight drawings by Ivoirian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré. They depict a vision that Bouabré said he experienced that year: "seven colored suns" creating a "circle of beauty around their 'mother-sun.' " This piece and other works from Bouabré are part of an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.

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  • Art & Design

A vision of 7 suns led a self-taught Ivoirian artist to draw the everyday and the holy

The Museum of Modern Art shows the colorful works of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, a prolific artist from the Ivory Coast who documented his Bété culture — and even created a pictograph language.

August 09, 2022
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  • Max Barnhart
Issey Miyake is shown at the National Art Center in Tokyo on March 15, 2016.

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  • Obituaries

Famed Japanese designer Issey Miyake dies at 84

Miyake defined an era in Japan's modern history, reaching stardom in the 1970s with his origami-like pleats that transformed usually crass polyester into chic.

August 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Horniman Museum's collection of artifacts from the ancient kingdom of Benin includes 12 brass plaques, ceremonial objects and a key 'to the king's palace'.

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  • Art & Design

A London museum agrees to return more than 70 pieces of looted Nigerian art

The Horniman Museum promised to repatriate a trove of artifacts, which include objects known as Benin bronzes, looted from West Africa during a British military invasion in 1897.

August 07, 2022
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  • Emma Bowman
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  • Music

'Scream for Me, Africa!': How the continent is reinventing heavy metal music

Africa's metalheads have a bold vision. We talk to Edward Banchs, author of a new book about Africa's metal scene, and to a heavy metal singer in Botswana known as "Vulture."

August 07, 2022
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  • Malaka Gharib
Lesia Khomenko, <em>Max in the Army</em>, 2022. Oil on canvas, 84.5 x 57.5 inches

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  • Fine Art

The Ukrainian women who make art in the face of war

Activists as well as artists, these women are responding in paint, photographs and videos to the Russian invasion.

August 02, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
Many of Megan Miranda's thrillers make nature — the deep woods or a steep trail — a central and often menacing character.

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  • Author Interviews

How do you write a captivating thriller? This author found clues in the woods

Megan Miranda's latest summer thriller, The Last to Vanish, is set in a small hiking town in North Carolina, where 7 people have disappeared in the woods. Were they all accidents or was it something more sinister?

July 31, 2022
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  • Elissa Nadworny
Artist Tunde Olaniran

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  • Arts & Life

Artist Tunde Olaniran's 'Made a Universe' opens a portal at a Detroit museum

Musician and artist Tunde Olaniran is a rising star from Flint, Michigan whose exuberant work comments on serious issues such as environmental injustice and the carceral state.

July 30, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
Yoshikazu Netsuno (left) watches his son Shinichi hammer a thick stack of specialized paper. In between each sheet is a thin layer of gold leaf. "My son is going to take over this business, so in our case, we had a successor," Netsuno says. "Many other artisans' families in Kanazawa were not so lucky."

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  • World

Japan's traditional crafts are struggling to survive the country's population decline

The city of Kanazawa produces most of Japan's fine gold leaf, but there aren't enough young people to take over the craft. The same situation is playing out for small family businesses across Japan.

July 29, 2022
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  • Jackie Northam
Franklin Armstrong made his debut in the <em>Peanuts</em> in 1968.

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  • Arts & Life

A project named for 'Peanuts' character Franklin aims to boost Black animators

The Armstrong Project provides two $100,000 endowments to Howard University and Hampton University.

July 28, 2022
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  • Mandalit del Barco

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  • Arts & Life

Seeing myself reflected in art allowed me to feel comfortable making my own

I was taught about Picasso and van Gogh, but I never saw myself in their work. Then I learned about Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance, and they inspired me to try abstract pictures.

July 25, 2022
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  • Sommer Hill
Fred Mutebi, a Ugandan artist, holds up one of his paintings, which uses traditional Ugandan barkcloth as a canvas.

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  • Art & Design

Beads, felt and bark are turned into masterpieces at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

This summer, artisans from Kenya, Mongolia and Uganda shared the story of their centuries-old traditional crafts — including the art of "barkcloth," declared a UNESCO world heritage "masterpiece."

July 19, 2022
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  • Max Barnhart
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