Laura Gao is a native of Wuhan, China — where the coronavirus outbreak began. As the virus spread, Wuhan captured the world's attention. Her comic offers a personal look at the city she loves.
Multidisciplinary artist Felix Quintana created honest portraits of South Central Los Angeles' people and urban landscape with the help of archived images.
The Manchester-raised artist was an invariably complicated and controversial figure, said to exert an unhealthy level of control over their collaborators.
"I needed to ... take it out of the frame, which was old and dusty, to take a closer look because it is very rare to find something like this at a thrift store," said art expert Melanie Smith.
The "Hearts of Our People" exhibition is devoted entirely to the art of Native American women past and present. "We're still very powerfully here," says Anita Fields, one of the artists in the show.
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara founded Grafton Architects in Dublin in 1978. The Pritzker Architecture Prize jury called the two Irish architects "beacons" in a male-dominated field.
In Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, Native artists retell the events of a brutal massacre in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania and bring a painful history to life on the page.
Attendance at Philadelphia's Penn Museum has shot up since the Global Guides first tours in 2018. The refugee and immigrant docents receive training in archaeology, ancient history and story-telling.
At the Frieze Los Angeles art fair, several LA-based Latino artists used the backlot of Paramount Pictures Studio to showcase work about representation and realities.
Janelle Lynch's book of nature photographs is a beautiful invitation to take all the time in the world to become alive to our senses and our surroundings.
The Pacific Bonsai Museum in Federal Way, Wash., is asking for help in locating two stolen bonsai. Both "priceless treasures" have a rich history going back to the World War II era.
The sculpture by Mexican artist Gabriel Rico included a large pane of glass with objects suspended within. How it suddenly broke into pieces on Saturday is a matter of fervent disagreement.
Attending church on Sundays as a kid, Christopher John Rogers learned the power of monochrome. Lizzo, Michelle Obama and Rihanna have all worn outfits made by the 26-year-old designer.
The National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama two years ago this month. Now it is sending them on a yearlong tour to five cities.
An exhibit at the Foundling Museum shows pregnant women from the age of Holbein to the time of social media, exploring changing cultural attitudes. We talk with curator Karen Hearn.
Art Lien, a courtroom artist who normally covers the Supreme Court, has been sketching the Senate proceedings. "I'm looking for color," he says — such as sleeping senators and fidget spinners.
In his last years, as he was dying of complications from syphilis, artist Édouard Manet was in agonizing pain — but you'd never know it from his exquisite flower bouquets and vibrant portraits.
Artist John Baldessari died last Thursday at his home in Venice, Calif. The artist helped shape not just a movement — conceptual art — but the LA art scene itself. He was 88.
O'Plerou Grebet, a graphic design student from Ivory Coast, created over 360 emojis depicting different facets of African life, from the djembe drum to a henna-dyed hand.
Some 120 paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet are on display at the Denver Art Museum. They're on loan from all over the world — and getting them from place to place is a lot of work.
The new exhibit at Immersion Vegas is titled BANKSY: Genius or Vandal? If you’re considering spending the $29 to attend, you’ve likely already formed an opinion regarding the famously anonymous guerrilla artist.
This year, NPR's interactives and videos focused on everything from teens' relationships with guns to rapid migration in Mongolia. For some joy, Big Bird and friends performed at the Tiny Desk.
In some historical Nativity scenes, the shepherds have grossly enlarged thyroid glands — also known today as goiter. It's an apparent symbol of their poverty and iodine-deficient diet.
