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News Articles: Art & Design

Issey Miyake is shown at the National Art Center in Tokyo on March 15, 2016.

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  • Obituaries

Famed Japanese designer Issey Miyake dies at 84

Miyake defined an era in Japan's modern history, reaching stardom in the 1970s with his origami-like pleats that transformed usually crass polyester into chic.

August 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Horniman Museum's collection of artifacts from the ancient kingdom of Benin includes 12 brass plaques, ceremonial objects and a key 'to the king's palace'.

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  • Art & Design

A London museum agrees to return more than 70 pieces of looted Nigerian art

The Horniman Museum promised to repatriate a trove of artifacts, which include objects known as Benin bronzes, looted from West Africa during a British military invasion in 1897.

August 07, 2022
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  • Emma Bowman
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  • Music

'Scream for Me, Africa!': How the continent is reinventing heavy metal music

Africa's metalheads have a bold vision. We talk to Edward Banchs, author of a new book about Africa's metal scene, and to a heavy metal singer in Botswana known as "Vulture."

August 07, 2022
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib
Lesia Khomenko, <em>Max in the Army</em>, 2022. Oil on canvas, 84.5 x 57.5 inches

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  • Fine Art

The Ukrainian women who make art in the face of war

Activists as well as artists, these women are responding in paint, photographs and videos to the Russian invasion.

August 02, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
Many of Megan Miranda's thrillers make nature — the deep woods or a steep trail — a central and often menacing character.

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  • Author Interviews

How do you write a captivating thriller? This author found clues in the woods

Megan Miranda's latest summer thriller, The Last to Vanish, is set in a small hiking town in North Carolina, where 7 people have disappeared in the woods. Were they all accidents or was it something more sinister?

July 31, 2022
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  • Elissa Nadworny
Artist Tunde Olaniran

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  • Arts & Life

Artist Tunde Olaniran's 'Made a Universe' opens a portal at a Detroit museum

Musician and artist Tunde Olaniran is a rising star from Flint, Michigan whose exuberant work comments on serious issues such as environmental injustice and the carceral state.

July 30, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
Yoshikazu Netsuno (left) watches his son Shinichi hammer a thick stack of specialized paper. In between each sheet is a thin layer of gold leaf. "My son is going to take over this business, so in our case, we had a successor," Netsuno says. "Many other artisans' families in Kanazawa were not so lucky."

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  • World

Japan's traditional crafts are struggling to survive the country's population decline

The city of Kanazawa produces most of Japan's fine gold leaf, but there aren't enough young people to take over the craft. The same situation is playing out for small family businesses across Japan.

July 29, 2022
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  • Jackie Northam
Franklin Armstrong made his debut in the <em>Peanuts</em> in 1968.

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  • Arts & Life

A project named for 'Peanuts' character Franklin aims to boost Black animators

The Armstrong Project provides two $100,000 endowments to Howard University and Hampton University.

July 28, 2022
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  • Mandalit del Barco

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  • Arts & Life

Seeing myself reflected in art allowed me to feel comfortable making my own

I was taught about Picasso and van Gogh, but I never saw myself in their work. Then I learned about Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance, and they inspired me to try abstract pictures.

July 25, 2022
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  • Sommer Hill
Fred Mutebi, a Ugandan artist, holds up one of his paintings, which uses traditional Ugandan barkcloth as a canvas.

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  • Art & Design

Beads, felt and bark are turned into masterpieces at Smithsonian Folklife Festival

This summer, artisans from Kenya, Mongolia and Uganda shared the story of their centuries-old traditional crafts — including the art of "barkcloth," declared a UNESCO world heritage "masterpiece."

July 19, 2022
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  • Max Barnhart
The large-scale street art "Saw, Sawing" by Claes Oldenburg / Coosje Van Bruggen Sculpture is seen last year in Tokyo.

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  • Arts & Life

Claes Oldenburg, creator of Pop Art on a giant scale, has died at age 93

The Swedish-born, New York City-based artist was famed for his gargantuan renditions of prosaic objects — a lipstick, a clothespin, a cherry perched on a spoon — installed as public art.

July 18, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
James McNeill Whistler's  Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1861–1863

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  • Arts & Life

Whistler's Mother, meet Whistler's very, very close friend at the National Gallery

A dreamy woman in white painted by James McNeill Whistler is the center of a new show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

July 18, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
An X-ray image shows this previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh painted on the reverse side of his painting <em>Head of a Peasant Woman.</em>

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  • Fine Art

A hidden self-portrait of Van Gogh has been discovered. Here's what you can see so far

As it prepared for an exhibit, the National Galleries of Scotland found a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, covered by glue and cardboard, on the back of another of his paintings.

July 14, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis
GPB  NPR

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  • Arts & Life

We know Greek statues weren't white. Now you can see them in color.

A new exhibit in New York shows what the statues ACTUALLY looked like.

July 12, 2022
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
GPB  NPR

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  • Arts & Life

We know Greek statues weren't white. Now you can see them in color.

A new exhibit in New York shows what the statues ACTUALLY looked like.

July 12, 2022
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
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