Art & Design Headlines

This community festival embraces the joys of a frozen lake — while it still has one
Fri Feb 27 3:00 am
As climate change accelerates, local experts say the date Wisconsin's Lake Mendota freezes over is getting later, making safe conditions for activities that rely on snow and ice harder to predict.
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The Louvre Museum's director has resigned in the wake of October's brazen jewel heist
Tue Feb 24 2:19 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron accepted Laurence des Cars' resignation as "an act of responsibility" at a moment when the Louvre needs security upgrades, modernization and other major projects.
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PHOTOS: Your car has a lot to say about who you are
Sun Feb 22 7:15 am
Photographer Martin Roemer visited eight countries — from the U.S. to Senegal to India — to show how our identities are connected to our mode of transportation.
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Urban sketchers find the sublime in the city block
Thu Feb 19 5:30 am
Sketchers say making art together in urban environments allows them to create a record of a moment and to notice a little bit more about the city they see every day.
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Photos: The flying doctors of Lesotho won't let their wings be clipped
Sun Feb 15 10:17 am
This band of airborne health workers bring essential medical care to isolated communities in the southern African nation. In addition to turbulence, they face a new obstacle: budget cuts.
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For this married couple, romance wasn't always fun
Fri Jan 30 4:48 am
Leslie and Alan Burger have been in love since they were kids. They reflect on their sometimes strange relationship.
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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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