Sam Gilliam's 1968 work Double Merge, which is currently on display at Dia Beacon in Beacon, N.Y. Dia Art Foundation, New York hide caption
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A flower crafted by Nell Greenfieldboyce, at an American Society for Microbiology event highlighting agar art. Aidan Rogers/Edvotek hide caption
A bridge in Irpin, Ukraine, in April. Vladyslav Krasnoshchok hide caption
The Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall is one of four sites selected as possible locations for two new museums. Ron Blunt Architectural Photography hide caption
Small black Telfar shopping bag Arturo Holmes/Getty Images hide caption
Fishermen haul in a fishing net in the eastern central Atlantic off Senegal. Belgian photographer Pierre Vanneste documents commercial fishing in his black-and-white photos. Pierre Vanneste for NPR hide caption
Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1963 Gordon Parks Courtesy of The Gordon Parks Foundation. hide caption
A kiosk distributes a William Shakespeare poem at a BART station in the San Francisco Bay Area. Maria Avila/BART hide caption
San Francisco's transit system is dispensing short stories to commuters
The Jackson 5. Bruce Talamon/Taschen hide caption
Coral and Kisses is one of Felix d'Eon's paintings celebrating queer love and identity using mythological beings. Felix d'Eon hide caption
The Mona Lisa last year in Paris. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption
Nada Thsibwabwa poses in a robot-like costume that he created using old mobile phones, in Matonge district, Kinshasa. The country is a major producer of coltan, an ore used in cellphones and other electronics. Colin Delfosse hide caption
Ryan, Grand Canyon, 2013 Ryan, Chinese-Japanese-American, Cowboy An Rong Xu hide caption
Marcus Kuilan-Nazario's "Macho Stereo" is an homage to his late father, an audiophile. He says his father used to record on this reel-to-reel player. Mandalit del Barco/NPR News hide caption
Spoken word and sonic rituals: East LA exhibit features Latinx artists using sound
A woman takes a photo of Andy Warhol's 'Shot Sage Blue Marilyn' on April 29 during Christie's 20th and 21st Century Art press preview in New York City. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A drawing from the War Toys project and Brian McCarty's photo that interprets that image. War Toys and Brian McCarty hide caption
The Katastwóf Karavan is built from a steel frame mounted to lumber running gear with red oak and muslin wall panels, a propane fired boiler, water tank, gas generator and a brass and steel 38-note steam calliope. Robert Shelley/National Gallery of Art hide caption
A slavery-era instrument is on the National Mall, singing 'songs of liberation'
Hope Gangloff, Queen Jane Approximately, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 66 x 108 inches. Collection of Alturas Foundation, San Antonio, Texas © Hope Gangloff. Adam Reich/Courtesy of the Artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC hide caption
How paying attention can help you appreciate what's right in front of you
The base where the Marjorie Tallchief sculpture once stood is seen outside the Tulsa Historical Society on May 2 in Tulsa, Okla. Mike Simons/Tulsa World via AP hide caption
Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn has set a record as the highest-priced American work of art to be sold at auction. Christie's hide caption
George Pérez, a celebrated comic book writer and artist, died at age 67 on Friday. Here, the artist is seen in 2019 at Excelsior! A Celebration of the Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible & Uncanny Life of Stan Lee, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP hide caption