Art & Design Headlines

Scott Adams, the controversial cartoonist behind 'Dilbert,' dies at 68
Tue Jan 13 12:00 pm
Adams announced in May that he was dying of metastatic prostate cancer. Thousands of newspapers carried his strip satirizing office culture starting the '90s, until a controversy in 2023.
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Today is the Smithsonian's deadline to give thousands of documents to the White House
Tue Jan 13 5:00 am
The White House says the Smithsonian Institution must submit materials about current and upcoming exhibitions and events for a review that will determine whether they express "improper ideology."
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2 police officers relive Jan. 6 through their own bodycam footage
Mon Jan 05 5:00 am
D.C. police officers experienced some of the most intense violence during the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. We sat down with two of them to rewatch their body camera footage from that day.
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Cecilia Giménez, the artist who 'restored' the face of Jesus, has died at 94
Tue Dec 30 11:29 am
Giménez international attention after she attempted to restore an old fresco. While it was immediately ridiculed at the time, the piece eventually turned into a tourist attraction.
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This painting is missing. Do you have it?
Sun Dec 28 7:00 am
An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it.
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In Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, children's entertainment comes with strings
Tue Dec 23 3:00 pm
For more than 30 years, Puppetworks has delighted Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood with performances of The Tortoise and the Hare, Pinocchio, Aladdin and, during the holidays, retellings of stories like The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
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2025: The images that stayed with us
Tue Dec 23 10:47 am
Photographs help us look back on the moments that defined the year. Taken by NPR photojournalists nationwide, this collection goes beyond the headlines to reveal quietly powerful human stories.
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Her 1951 walkout helped end school segregation. Now her statue is in the U.S. Capitol
Tue Dec 16 1:07 pm
Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she led a walkout at her high school, credited with helping end school segregation. Her statue replaces Robert E. Lee's, which was removed in 2020.
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Remembering world-renowned architect Frank Gehry
Fri Dec 12 11:06 am
Gehry, who died Dec. 5, designed the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Disney Concert Hall in LA. His work has been likened to sculptures rather than buildings. Originally broadcast in 2004.
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Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96
Fri Dec 05 3:09 pm
Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said.
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