El Peso Hero saves civilians in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol in a special edition of Héctor Rodríguez's self-published comic book series. The 18-page issue is free, with text in English, Spanish, Ukrainian and Russian. Héctor Rodríguez hide caption
Art & Design
Beauford Delaney's last known self-portrait. The then-70-year-old Delaney portrays himself as wide-eyed, lithe and youthful, and clad in African attire not unlike that of a Maasai warrior. It is the only known self-portrait canvas in which Delaney presents himself full-figure. Knoxville Museum of Art hide caption
Early opera recordings on wax cylinders 1900–1904, recorded by Lionel Mapleson. Robert Kato Lionel/New York Public Library hide caption
Mystery recordings will now be heard for the first time in about 100 years
Visitor experiencing Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room—My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe (2018), part of the 2022 exhibition One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Matailong Du/Courtesy Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro, London/Venice. © YAYOI KUSAMA. hide caption
Dots all, folks—at the Hirshhorn, artist Yayoi Kusama immerses viewers in infinity
Several pyramids in the morning light in the royal burial grounds in Meroe, Sudan. Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York hide caption
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LaTasha Barnes is a tradition-bearer of Black social dances, including the Lindy Hop. Cassidy Araiza for NPR hide caption
The dance that made its way from Harlem to Sweden
Rapper Andrew Hean, whose family owned a donut shop in California, is pictured in a silkscreen print on a donut box by artist Phung Huynh. Self Help Graphics & Art hide caption
Pink donut boxes are canvas for artist portraying kids of Cambodian-American refugees
Twenty-year-old Rusul Ahmed has painted several of the murals in Mosul. She says after the dark period of ISIS, the colorful murals make people happy. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption
In Iraq's Mosul, art springs up from ruins almost 5 years after the ouster of ISIS
Some of the vendors at the Broadway Makers Marketplace, which carries their handmade goods Michael T. Clarkston /Broadway Makers Marketplace hide caption
At the Broadway Makers Marketplace, theater fans find both crafts and community
Statues wrapped in protective materials stand in Lviv's old quarter in western Ukraine. Officials are taking precautions to protect statues from being destroyed in Russian attacks. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Diébédo Francis Kéré, this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize winner. Lars Borges/The Pritzker Architecture Prize hide caption
For the first time in its history, architecture's top award goes to a Black architect
Installation view of Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, in "Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby." The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens hide caption
A mad scientist and his bird in a bubble: The story behind a peculiar painting
Valeriya Kamelkova, artist and sculptor, illustrates the Russian flag and a pool of blood. Valeriya Kamelkova hide caption
The Kennedy Center joins other U.S. sites illuminating their buildings in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Margaret Wroblewski/The Kennedy Center hide caption
Rubble and a damaged vehicle is seen across the street from the Kyiv TV Tower on Wednesday. Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption
Dragon blood tree at Diksam Plateau, on Yemen's Socotra Island. It's one of the sites included on the 2022 Watch from the World Monuments Fund. Chris Miller/World Monuments Fund hide caption
Models walk the runway at the Tom Ford spring/summer 2022 fashion show at Lincoln Center during New York Fashion Week on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP hide caption
From Tumblrcore to 2014core, the nostalgia loop is getting smaller and faster
Visitors queue up to enter the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The museum announced in August 2021 it would return the valuable "Painting With Houses" artwork by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of a Jewish family that originally owned it, ending years of legal wrangling over the work that was sold at auction in 1940. Peter Dejong/AP file photo hide caption
Left to right: Xyenz Fyxion, Asante Amin, and Aidah Z. M. Laylah Amatullah Barrayn hide caption