npr.org / .npr-org-art-and-design / Page 2

Thomas' work puts Black women front and center. "We've been supportive characters for far too long," she says. "I would describe my art as radically shifting notions of beauty by reclaiming space."

Visitors to the Dali Museum in Florida can ask the Catalan artist, who died in 1989, questions. The installation uses generative AI to bring his consciousness to life. (Story aired on ATC on 7/18/24.)

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here to break them in this raucous new picture book.

In Pittsburgh, entire houses have been converted into individual art installations filled with unusual objects. A new house is now open.

Prokoviev's tale about a young man who captures a wolf is a children's holiday classic. But how to handle stories like this one at a time when capturing a wolf by its tail, parading it in triumph through the city, and then locking it up in the local ...

The final day of election season is coming to an end as polling stations around the U.S. close. See what Election Day looked like across the country.

Trump statues appeared next to sculptures of nude women in Portland and Philadelphia. The plaques bear the title In Honor of a Lifetime of Sexual Assault and quote Trump's Access Hollywood remarks.

Two politically pointed statues have mysteriously appeared in the nation's capital in the leadup to the election: a pile of poop on the former House speaker's desk and a hand holding a tiki torch.

The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2022, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.