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Opinion: A New Spirit Joins The Panthéon

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Opinion: A New Spirit Joins The Panthéon

Josephine Baker will be reinterred at the Panthéon in Paris 46 years after her death. The famed entertainer will be the first Black woman to receive the honor. Scott Simon reflects on her legacy.

Opinion: A New Spirit Joins The Panthéon

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This Audio Portrait Of The 2020 Census Asks: Whose Voices Really Count?

Artist Ekene Ijeoma on the set of "Deconstructed Anthems" at Houston's Day For Night Festival in 2017. Katrina Barber/Resnicow and Associates hide caption

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Art & Design

This Audio Portrait Of The 2020 Census Asks: Whose Voices Really Count?

Nigerian American artist Ekene Ijeoma is an MIT professor who draws on sound and data to explore representations of social justice. He's working on a "voice portrait" of the census called A Counting.

This Audio Portrait Of The 2020 Census Asks: Whose Voices Really Count?

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On The Oregon Coast, Turning Pollution Into Art With A Purpose

Angela Haseltine Pozzi founded Washed Ashore in 2010. The nonprofit turns plastics taken from Oregon's beaches into eye-opening sculptures of threatened marine life. Kirk Siegler/NPR hide caption

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On The Oregon Coast, Turning Pollution Into Art With A Purpose

A local artist is turning the mountains of plastic garbage that wash up on beaches into dramatic sculptures of the very marine life threatened by the deluge of plastics.

On The Oregon Coast, Turning Pollution Into Art With A Purpose

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He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He's Still Healing

Patsy and Winfred Rembert in Hamden, Conn., at their StoryCorps interview in 2017. Jacqueline Van Meter/StoryCorps hide caption

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He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He's Still Healing

As a young, black man living in Georgia's Jim Crow era, Winfred Rembert experienced an unforgettable trauma. "I still wake up screaming and reliving things that happened to me," he told StoryCorps.

He Survived A Near-Lynching. 50 Years Later, He's Still Healing

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An Artist Incubating Chicken Eggs Is No Joke. But Is It Art?

French artist Abraham Poincheval sits over real chicken eggs until they hatch at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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An Artist Incubating Chicken Eggs Is No Joke. But Is It Art?

Artist Abraham Poincheval is roosting over eggs in a Paris museum, hoping to hatch them like a mother hen. NPR'S Scott Simon says it's an attempt at performance art that doesn't quite make the grade.

An Artist Incubating Chicken Eggs Is No Joke. But Is It Art?

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Decades Later, Salvador Dalí's Decadent Dream Dishes Are Awakened

Salvador Dalí's dinner parties were legendary for their opulence and bizarre fare. In 1973, Dalí immortalized these freakish feasts in the book Les Diners de Gala. Taschen hide caption

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Decades Later, Salvador Dalí's Decadent Dream Dishes Are Awakened

Food and surrealism make bizarre bedfellows in Les Diners de Gala, first published in 1973. Now, you can get a reprint of those recipes and illustrations — and a peek into his legendary banquets.

Out Of This World: How Artists Imagine Planets Yet Unseen

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Out Of This World: How Artists Imagine Planets Yet Unseen

When astronomers spot a new planet that's too far away to be seen in detail, they work with artists to depict it. Space artists say they have a lot of freedom, but have to be careful, too.

Out Of This World: How Artists Imagine Planets Yet Unseen

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