William Merritt Chase's 1888 Study of Flesh Color and Gold, pastel on paper coated with mauve-gray grit National Gallery of Art hide caption
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Audrey Hepburn appears as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. In a letter to director George Cukor, she raved about the script. AP hide caption
In Golden Age Hollywood, Film Stars Slid Into Each Others' Telegrams
Men wait to board a non-existent plane in Adrian Paci's 2007 video, Centro di permanenza temporanea (Temporary Detention Center). Courtesy of the artist and Kaufmann Repetto hide caption
Artists Take On Global Migration: 'It's Hard To Watch And It's Hard Not To Watch'
Augusta Savage was an artist, educator, activist and community leader. Her work is the focus of an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, organized by the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens. She's pictured above with her 1938 sculpture Realization. New-York Historical Society hide caption
Sculptor Augusta Savage Said Her Legacy Was The Work Of Her Students
Judy Wexler's fifth album, Crowded Heart, is out now. Jeff Fasano/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
'Something To Hold': Why This Self-Produced Jazz Singer Made A Physical CD In 2019
Tintoretto was in his late 20s when he painted this self-portrait circa 1546/48. (Scroll down to compare this portrait to one he painted 40 years later.) The Philadelphia Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY hide caption
Happy 500th, Tintoretto — A Retrospective Honors The Venetian Artist
Frank Sinatra and Lauren Bacall have a drink at Musso & Frank Grill in 1957. Frank Worth, Courtesy of Capital Art/Getty Images hide caption
Rauschenberg worked on The 1/4 Mile on-and-off for 17 years, from 1981 to 1998. The LACMA exhibition was curated by Katia Zavistovski and Michael Govan. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Museum Associates/LACMA hide caption
André Previn in London in 1979. Previn died Thursday in Manhattan, at the age of 89. Keystone/Keystone/Getty Images hide caption
"I probably almost broke down a few times questioning whether or not I was gonna be able to get it done," pianist Kris Bowers says of learning Don Shirley's music for Green Book. Molly Cranna/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
How Pianist Kris Bowers Found His Inner Virtuoso For Oscar-Nominated 'Green Book'
Titian painted Portrait of a Lady in White around 1561. She's captivated historians and art lovers for centuries — but nobody knows who she is. Elke Estel/Hans-Peter Klut/Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister hide caption
Dear Los Angeles features snippets of diary entries and letters written between 1542 to 2018. Above, daybreak over downtown LA in December 2011. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
'Dear Los Angeles' Collects Nearly 5 Centuries Of Opinions About The City
Alice Neel painted this oil on canvas self-portrait in 1980, when she was 75. National Portrait Gallery/Estate of Alice Neel hide caption
'Eye To I' Exhibition Celebrates Over A Century Of Self-Portraiture
"I like to accept the way people present themselves," photographer Inge Morath said in a 1987 NPR interview. "You never know what you get. It's fascinating ... that's why I like to do portraits." Morath, pictured above in Paris in 1964, is the subject of a new biography by Linda Gordon called Inge Morath: Magnum Legacy, published by Prestel and Magnum Foundation. Lefevre/AP hide caption