Elizabeth Blair Elizabeth Blair is a Peabody Award-winning Senior Producer/Reporter on the Arts Desk at NPR.
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The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian will close as of Monday, November 23rd because of the rise in COVID-19 cases. Matailong Du/Smithsonian Institution hide caption
Flat-mates work on a puzzle in their living room in Dortmund, Germany, on March 27, 2020. Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Puzzle Business Goes 'Bonkers' As People Seek Pandemic Pastimes At Home
Artist Mo Willems is leading a doodle session on election night for children and adults. On the Kennedy Center's website, he will encourage self-expression for anyone who tunes in. Mo Willems hide caption
Anxious On Election Night? Join Mo Willems For A 'Democracy Doodle'
Increased car and foot traffic coupled with rising sea levels have driven parts of the Tidal Basin area underwater. Sam Kittner/Tidal Basin Ideas Lab hide caption
Landscape Architects Unveil Plans To Save The National Mall's Tidal Basin
'Opening Act' Captures The Painful Business Of Making People Laugh
Jordan Betscher and Courtney Crain dancing to Irving Berlin's "Isn't This a Lovely Day (To Be Caught in the Rain)?" Courtesy of Concord Theatricals hide caption
Riva Lehrer's 2010 charcoal mixed-media collage portrait of Alison Bechdel, author of the Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip and the memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? National Portrait Gallery/Disability Futures Fund hide caption
20 Artists In Inaugural Class Of Disability Futures Fellows Receive $50,000 Grants
Writer Kevin Young has been named The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. "Having visited the museum myself with my family, I know what a powerful place it is, transforming visitors both in-person and online, and revealing the centrality of African American culture to the American experience," Young says. Alan Karchmer/National Museum of African American History and Culture hide caption
A visitor wears a mask while walking by Mickey Mouse at Hong Kong Disneyland. Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Guess How Much I Love You™ © 2015 Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram. Guess How Much I Love You™ is a registered trademark of Walker Books Ltd, London. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London. Candlewick Press hide caption
"I'm a comedian. I'm not here to be agreed with," says Colin Quinn. "In fact, if you came up to me and said, 'You're not funny, but I agree with you,' I'd be offended because I'm here to make people laugh. ... It's much more powerful than somebody agreeing with you." Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Audible hide caption
In A 'Coast-To-Coast Roast,' Colin Quinn Finds Humor In The State We're In
Lamorne Morris plays cartoonist Keef Knight in the Hulu comedy Woke. The character is based on Keith Knight, the show's co-creator. Joe Lederer/Hulu hide caption