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Marcus Kuilan-Nazario's "Macho Stereo" is an homage to his late father, an audiophile. He says his father used to record on this reel-to-reel player. Mandalit del Barco/NPR News hide caption
Spoken word and sonic rituals: East LA exhibit features Latinx artists using sound
A woman takes a photo of Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' on April 29 during Christie's 20th and 21st Century Art press preview in New York City. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ryan, Grand Canyon, 2013 Ryan, Chinese-Japanese-American, Cowboy An Rong Xu hide caption
A photographer's journey to reconnect with his Chinese American identity
May 26: People visit a memorial in the town square for victims of Tuesday's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. Eric Thayer/Getty Images hide caption
Photos: Mourners gather at memorials in Uvalde
Marcela Hernández, directora de la academia Alma Llanera, 2022. "Admiro a mi mamá, porque ella desde pequeñita ha estado sola y iba a clases de danza, se graduó, estudió periodismo, y ahorita ha ido a varios países, muchas personas la conocen y la admiran demasiado", comenta sobre Marcela su hija Mariangel Tumay. Juanita Escobar hide caption
El Llano: Una historia de baile, lucha y educación
A drawing from the War Toys project and Brian McCarty's photo that interprets that image. War Toys and Brian McCarty hide caption
The Katastwóf Karavan is built from a steel frame mounted to lumber running gear with red oak and muslin wall panels, a propane fired boiler, water tank, gas generator and a brass and steel 38-note steam calliope. Robert Shelley/National Gallery of Art hide caption
A slavery-era instrument is on the National Mall, singing 'songs of liberation'
Hope Gangloff, Queen Jane Approximately, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 66 x 108 inches. Collection of Alturas Foundation, San Antonio, Texas © Hope Gangloff. Adam Reich/Courtesy of the Artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC hide caption
How paying attention can help you appreciate what's right in front of you
The base where the Marjorie Tallchief sculpture once stood is seen outside the Tulsa Historical Society on May 2 in Tulsa, Okla. Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP hide caption
Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn has set a record as the highest-priced American work of art to be sold at auction. Christie's hide caption
George Pérez, a celebrated comic book writer and artist, died at age 67 on Friday. Here, the artist is seen in 2019 at Excelsior! A Celebration of the Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible & Uncanny Life of Stan Lee, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP hide caption
Models pose in pieces from Homme + Femme's latest collaboration with Churchill Downs for this year's Kentucky Derby race. Michael Greenburg/Homme + Femme hide caption
Study of the 1931 Josephine Baker poster by Jean Chassaing. Helicline Fine Art hide caption
Photos: The Golden Age of Broadway is celebrated in a new online exhibit
Artist Jill Magid had 120,000 pennies inscribes with, "The body was already so fragile." Tender (film), 2021 hide caption
She inscribed 120,000 NYC pennies with a pandemic message. Is one in your pocket?
Florist Alexander Campbell shares tips to help you level up your supermarket bouquet. We followed his advice to create this arrangement from grocery store flowers. Photo Illustration by Becky Harlan/NPR hide caption
A 1983 photo of then 23-year-old visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Lee Jaffe/Courtesy of the Basquiat family hide caption
An intimate look at Jean-Michel Basquiat's art, courtesy of his family
Tracey Collins and New York City Mayor Eric Adams at the 2022 Met Gala on Monday in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met museum/Vogue hide caption
Blake Lively Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images hide caption
Artist Guadalupe Maravilla photographed in one of the galleries of his show "Tierra Blanca Joven" on view at the Brooklyn Museum. Christopher Gregory for NPR hide caption
Neal Adams revitalized popular comic book characters including Batman, the Green Lantern, Superman and the X-Men, by reimagining them in a more realistic style. Warner Bros. hide caption
A mural of Melissa Ortega, an 8-year-old victim of gun violence in Chicago, painted by artist Milton Coronado. Milton Coronado hide caption
Opinion: Painting the smiles of people we know, love and will never see again
People walk in a city park around a Soviet-era monument in Kyiv, Ukraine, in June 2020. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption
Women were an integral part of the construction effort. Among their jobs: Carrying cement for a building project in Chandigarh, India in 1956. Ernst Scheidegger for MOMA hide caption