The Arc de Triomphe in Paris is seen wrapped in fabric, in a posthumous art project that is an homage to the late artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude . Julien Mattia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images hide caption
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White flags stand near the Washington Monument on Tuesday during installation of a temporary art exhibit on the National Mall. More than 630,000 flags are part of artist Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg's In America: Remember, honoring Americans who have died of COVID-19. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Co-chair Amanda Gorman dons a cobalt-blue Vera Wang gown and a book-shaped clutch that says "give us your tired," a look inspired by the Statue of Liberty. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum hide caption
Laura Weiss created the "Light of Appreciation" to honor her fellow nurses who helped inoculate 82% of the population in Boulder, Colo. Laura Weiss/Courtesy of Laura Weiss hide caption
Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" is installed at Sotheby's on September 03, 2021 in London, England. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's hide caption
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Thankful Poor, 1894, oil on canvas, Art Bridges Dallas Museum of Art hide caption
Untitled (young boy), undated, sixth-plate daguerreotype. Smithsonian American Art Museum, the L. J. West Collection of Early African American Photography, Museum purchase made possible through the Franz H. and Luisita L. Denghausen Endowment. J. P. Ball/Smithsonian American Art Museum hide caption
Smithsonian Acquires Rare Antique Portraits By First Black Photographers
"Mestizo Man," Nahua artisan Zeferino Baltasar Basilio, San Francisco Ozomatlán, Guerrero, Mexico. Toya Sarno Jordan for NPR hide caption
The almost 40-foot 3D-printed pedestrian bridge designed by Joris Laarman and built by Dutch robotics company MX3D has been opened in Amsterdam six years after the project was launched. The bridge, which was fabricated from stainless steel rods by six-axis robotic arms equipped with welding gear, spans the Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Ana Fernandez/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty hide caption
Hung Liu, Resident Alien, 1988. Oil on canvas. Collection of the San Jose Museum of Art, gift of the Lipman Family Foundation. Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery hide caption
Remembering Hung Liu, A Portraitist Who Memorialized The Invisible
Artist Chuck Close at a 2019 exhibition of his work in Ravenna, Italy. Roberto Serra - Iguana Press/Getty Images hide caption
The Safety Patrol, 2018. Cavigga Family Trust Fund. Photograph by Margaret Fox Bisa Butler hide caption
Black Lives Are Celebrated In Bisa Butler's Extraordinary, Technicolor Quilts
Ramona! A Celebration of Life, Mastery Charter School, Philadelphia, 2019 Andrea Walls/Museum of Black Joy hide caption
All Me, by Winfred Rembert McCartin/Daniels PR hide caption
The Late Winfred Rembert Documented His Life With Art — And Now A Book
Robert Longo, Untitled (Capitol), 2012-2013. Charcoal on mounted paper. Installation image by Lance Gerber for the Palm Springs Art Museum's exhibition Storm of Hope: Law & Disorder. Robert Longo/Metro Pictures, New York; Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles hide caption
The "Proximity Dress" which expands to reinforce social distancing when someone gets too close. Jeff Cacossa hide caption
"Magic of Aurora Borealis." Russia Tatiana Merzlyakova/IPPAWARDS hide caption
A man covers himself from rain with an umbrella as he walks by the Baltimore Museum of Art on April 21, 2020. An upcoming exhibit at the museum will be curated by security guards. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption
At This Baltimore Museum, Security Guards Will Be The Ones Curating The Exhibit
People mourn their ancestors and the deceased at a cemetery in Quanzhou during the traditional Qingming Festival, or "Tomb-sweeping Day." VCG/VCG via Getty Images hide caption
Lee Miller, Self-Portrait with Headband (variant), 1932 gelatin silver print, Lee Miller Studios Inc., New York Lee Miller Archives hide caption
Matthew Mazzotta: How Can We Redesign Overlooked Spaces To Better Serve The Public?
Shari Davis presentation on the TED MainStage, as part of TED2020: Uncharted. July 02, 2020. Photo courtesy of TED. Courtesy of TED hide caption
Shari Davis: What If You Could Decide How The Government Spends Public Funds?
We asked NPR readers to share the items they can't live without in the pandemic. From left to right: Kenji Hall with his traditional Japanese pot, Trish Kandik with her foster dog Penelope and Lauren Morton with a takeout container of Indian food. Kenji Hall, Trish Kandik, Lauren Morton hide caption