Art & Design
Residents of the isolated village of Mphooko wave as a team from the Lesotho Flying Doctor Service departs after a day treating patients. Mphooko is inaccessible by road and relies on the LFDS for basic medical care. Tommy Trenchard for NPRhide caption
Cartoonist Scott Adams poses with his a life-size cutout of his creation, Dilbert, in 2014. Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Imageshide caption
Scott Adams, the controversial cartoonist behind 'Dilbert,' dies at 68
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The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., is one of eight Smithsonian organizations that the White House stipulated must conduct a "comprehensive internal review" for "improper ideology." Kevin Dietsch/Getty Imageshide caption
Smithsonian’s deadline to give thousands of documents to the White House arrives
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Cecilia Gimenez, left, who restored a version of 'Ecce Homo' mural by 19th century painter Elías Garcia Martínez, died Monday. Javier Vinuela/APhide caption
The missing 1916 paintingMusic, by Gabriele Münter. Its whereabouts have been unknown to the public since 1977. Oil on canvas. (Private collection. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn) The Guggenheim, New Yorkhide caption
The Tin Soldier, one of Nicolas Coppola's marionette puppets, is the main character inThe Steadfast Tin Soldier show at Coppola's Puppetworks theater in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood. Anh Nguyen for NPRhide caption
Cookie Jones (left) sits with her mother, Valerie (right), in Cookie's home on June 4, 2025, in Bridgeport, Conn. Cookie Jones quit her job to care for her mother, who has Alzheimer's disease. She is one of thousands of unpaid family caregivers in Connecticut navigating financial and access barriers to treatment. Tyler Russell/Connecticut Publichide caption
Virginia's Barbara Rose Johns statue is unveiled at a ceremony in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Imageshide caption
Frank Gehry stands next his fish lamps at his exhibition at the Gagosian Mayfair gallery, in central London, in November 2013. Joel Ryan/Invision/APhide caption
Keep a physical collection of items that pique your visual interest and stir your emotions. Yip says he has one client who decorated her bedroom in a soothing color palette based on her robust collection of sea glass, which she gathered over several years of vacations to the beach with her family. "She loved the texture and colors of it, and it also had a lot of memories."
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JonOne with one of the paintings featured in his solo show at Miami's Museum of Graffiti. Greg Allen/NPRhide caption
From subways to galleries: Miami's Museum of Graffiti traces the appeal of street art
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Jeff de Boer poses with one of his mouse armor pieces at a workshop at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, Wash., on Oct. 9. Chona Kasinger/for NPRhide caption
Frida Kahlo'sEl Sueno (La cama) sold for $54.7 million. Courtesy of Sotheby's/Sotheby'shide caption
Jael Augusta, Ogden International High School, 2019. Melissa Ann Pinneyhide caption
"So what's my name? Watch out! I'm Black Freddie, and I'm blaaaack. Ha ha ha ha ha. Even as we get older, there's an inner child … that lies within us. They are us, you know. We're still them because the inner child lives in us," said Antwone Coward, who was dressed as Freddy Krueger at New York Comic Con in 2024. Isaac Campbell for NPRhide caption
A soccer match has just ended and a river of fans pours out of Pamplona's massive soccer stadium. When a mass of people like this start to move, the laws of physics — rather than free will — begin to take over. Ari Daniel/For NPRhide caption
Sheep, soldiers, and grains: Studying the physics of crowds
In Pamplona, where the bulls run, a scientist studies the physics of crowds.
Grains, sheep and soldiers: How one scientist is studying the physics of crowds
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Art expert Agnes Sevestre-Barbe points to a rediscovered Picasso painting "Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat," on Wednesday in Paris. The portrait of longtime muse and partner Dora Maar sold Friday at auction for 32 million euros (about $37 million). Emma Da Silva/APhide caption
A solitary horseman stands atop a rocky outcropping in Cappadocia, Turkey. Dennis Schmelzhide caption
The gutted interior of the White House in 1950, during major structural renovations that forced President Truman and his family to live in a temporary residence for nearly four years. File/APhide caption
Daily Scene in the Louvre, a 1911 cartoon by Samuel Ehrhart, shows patrons blatantly stealing works from the museum after an inventory at the time found that over 300 canvases were missing. Universal History Archive/Getty Imageshide caption
This dark-eyed junco died after colliding with a building near Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 8, 2024. The bird was collected and documented by a volunteer with Lights Out DC, a program that has been gathering data on building collisions like this one since 2010. Angel Ruszkiewiczhide caption






















