Artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff attends the presentation of his installation The Floating Piers on June 16, 2016, in Sulzano, Italy. He died Sunday at age 84. Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images hide caption
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Aaliyah Dade, 18, Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va. Tyrone Turner/WAMU for NPR hide caption
Boris Deutch painted this 1941 Works Progress Administration mural in the Terminal Annex building in Los Angeles, Calif. Carol M. Highsmith/The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division hide caption
The human need to connect means offices will likely survive the pandemic, but in an altered state. Shannon Fagan/Getty Images hide caption
Elena Nikolaenko re-created Raphael's Sistine Madonna with her husband, mother and three children. Elena Nikolaenko hide caption
Looking out of an adobe window. Salvador, Brazil, 1963. Elliott Erwitt/National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution hide caption
Olivia Laing, author of Funny Weather, at the Barbican in London in February. Sophie Davidson/W. W. Norton & Company hide caption
"She's challenging you to sit down in that chair," Los Angeles artist Alison Saar says of her 2019 sculpture, Set to Simmer. Jeff McLane/L.A. Louver hide caption
'She's Challenging You': Alison Saar's Sculptures Speak To Race, Beauty, Power
Right: "Mask Up," a submission to Amplifier, an arts group. Left: "Grandmother's Affection — For Global Health," a submission to the United Nations. Lisa Vollrath; Nubefy Design for All hide caption
Emily Quinn speaks from the TED stage at TEDWomen 2018 TED hide caption
Emily Quinn: Male Or Female Is The Wrong Question—How Can We Rethink Biological Sex?
The Procession of Steps is a journey that marks the last Friday of Christian Lent. This year, the procession continued without the presence of any followers and with the entire church group wearing masks and gloves. Olinda, Recife. Brenda Alcântara hide caption
Dorothea Lange, Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona (1940). During many of Lange's portraits she would talk for a while with her subjects, recording their speech patterns and getting to know their perspectives on life. Dorothea Lange/Courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art, New York hide caption
'A Community Of Desperation' Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange
Jonny Sun speaks at TED2019: Bigger Than Us. April 15 - 19, 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Bret Hartman / TED Bret Hartman/Bret Hartman / TED hide caption
The Metropolitan Museum on Mar. 13, the first day it was closed due to the coronavirus. Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
With Surprising Sculptures, Katharina Fritsch Makes The Familiar Fun
Betsey Johnson attends the Women's Guild Cedars-Sinai annual luncheon at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel on November 6, 2019 in Beverly Hills, Calif. David Livingston/Getty Images hide caption
Betsey Johnson Talks Fashion, Love And Motherhood In Self-Titled Memoir
Times Square billboard owners have donated ad space to make way for artworks about the pandemic such as the one above by illustrator Maira Kalman. Jean Cooney, director of Times Square Arts, says that in healthier times, many people come to Times Square "because they're seeking something — they feel that if they've come to Times Square then they've seen New York City ... they've seen America." Ian Douglas/Times Square Arts hide caption
Messages Of Hope, Gratitude And Safety Replace Ads In Times Square
A nurse works in the influenza ward of the Walter Reed hospital in Washington, D.C., in November 1918. Artist Jordan Baseman evokes the era in Radio Influenza, a work of audio art commissioned to mark the centenary of the pandemic. Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress via AP hide caption
'We Haven't Learned From History': 'Radio Influenza' Is A Warning From 1918
Since the coronavirus outbreak began, Laura Gao has been troubled by the disgust and pity directed at her hometown. Laura Gao hide caption
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, photographed in New York on Aug. 19, 2007. The artist, best known for their work in the groups Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, died on March 14, 2020. Neville Elder/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption
The wood engraving print is part of a series of 100 images illustrating The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alleghieri. WAVY TV hide caption