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Wednesday

A museum worker carries a 19th century painting by Polish artist Robert Sliwinski during a ceremony Wednesday in Warsaw, Poland. The work was looted by the Nazis during World War II and recently recovered in the U.S. by the FBI. Alik Keplicz/AP hide caption

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Sunday

A Google doodle from earlier this year commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Silent Parade, during which almost 10,000 African-Americans marched in New York City to protest violence against African-Americans. Google hide caption

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Google

Thursday

Gray Zeitz at his 1915 Chandler & Price printing press. Noah Adams/NPR hide caption

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When Making Books Was As Much Of An Art As Writing Them

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Sunday

Saturday

Franco-Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaia poses during an exposition of Britain's artist Richard Wentworth photographic work on fashion design on Sept. 7, 2017 at the Maison Alaia in Paris. Francios Guillot/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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A man stands in front of a projection of the virtually recomposed painting The Enchanted Pose by René Magritte at The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium on Tuesday. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Sunday

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Madga Sayeg's artwork in Mexico City, Mexico Courtesy Magda hide caption

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Magda Sayeg: What's The Emotional Power Behind "Yarn Bombing"?

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Wednesday

Vincent Van Gogh's Olive Trees, made with oil on canvas in 1889. See the shadow cast by that small tree on the far right side? There's a grasshopper lurking in that shade. Courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art hide caption

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Courtesy of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Tuesday

Left: Johannes Vermeer's Lady Writing, 1665. Right: Caspar Netscher's Woman Feeding a Parrot, with a Page, 1666. National Gallery of Art, Washington hide caption

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National Gallery of Art, Washington

Dutch Artists Painted Their Patriotism With Pearls And ... Parrots?

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Obama poses with a boy who fell asleep during the White House's Father's Day ice cream social on June 14, 2013. Souza remembers the president calling out, "Pete, you've got to get a picture of this." Pete Souza/Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company, New York hide caption

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Photographer Pete Souza Reflects On 8 Years (And 1.9 Million Photos) Of Obama

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Saturday

Leonard Pickel's design and consulting company has created fright sites for clients all over --from New York City to Australia. Leonard Pickel hide caption

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Leonard Pickel

'We Don't Want To Mess You Up For Life': How A Pro Makes Haunted Houses

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