The pandemic was a major blow to the museum's budget. But this historic gift will allow it to expand its collection of modern and contemporary art. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
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Virgil Abloh was the artistic director for Louis Vuitton menswear and the founder of the label Off-White. He died on Sunday after a private battle with cancer. He was 41. Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Qatar Museums hide caption
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Nyayua Thang, 62, left, stands waist-deep in the floodwaters in front of an abandoned primary school in South Sudan. Members of her village, displaced by extreme flooding as a result of heavy rainfall, are using the building as a refuge. Only small mud dikes at the entrance of the door are keeping the water out. (November 2020) Peter Caton for Action Against Hunger hide caption
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Photographer Mick Rock at the opening reception for Mick Rock: Shooting For Stardust - The Rise Of David Bowie & Co. in Los Angeles in 2015. Angela Weiss/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's "Diego y yo" set a new auction record for art by a Latin American artist, selling for $34.9 million at Sotheby's on Tuesday night. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Monday
A young girl in a yellow dress is standing in the middle of a large gallery space at ARTECHOUSE in Washington, DC. There's an image of a neuron projected onto her, the walls, and the ground. ARTECHOUSE Team hide caption
Sunday
In 2015, Keyla "Nunny" Reece, felt a lump in her breast, got it checked out and was told it was a benign cyst. A new lump was discovered under her armpit. At the age of 39, on June 7, 2017, doctors diagnosed her with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, and by that point the cancer spread to her ribs, lungs, spine, and pelvis. Angelica Edwards hide caption
Friday
TED Radio Hour: Amir Nizar Zuabi Photo Courtesy of TED hide caption
Amir Nizar Zuabi: How one puppet's 5,000 mile journey delivers a message of hope
A 1951 oil painting by Gertrude Abercrombie entitled Search for Rest. Collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra. Courtesy of Sandra and Bram Dijk hide caption
Thursday
Julie Green's The Last Supper is currently on view at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Wash. There are 800 plates in the exhibit. Emilie Smith, Bellevue Arts Museum hide caption
Saturday
From left to right: Teachers Mark Sujak, Sarah Lorraine, Jeremy Robinson and Sophia Faridi pose with students and podcast finalists Julian Fausto and Eric Guadarrama for portraits in front of Morton East High School, in Cicero, Ill. Olivia Obineme for NPR hide caption
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Grete Bergman, left, and Sarah Whalen-Lunn at their StoryCorps recording in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2018. Camila Kerwin/StoryCorps hide caption
With 3 bold marks, Indigenous women helped revive a once-banned tradition
Yolanda López died on Sept. 3 of complications liver cancer. Her first museum solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego was delayed by a year due, in part, to the pandemic. Alexa "LexMex" Treviño/Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego hide caption
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Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" (2018) is installed at Sotheby's on Sept. 3, in London. On Thursday it was auctioned for $25.4 million, a record for the artist. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's hide caption
Julie Bargmann, the 2021 Oberlander Prize laureate. Barrett Doherty/The Cultural Landscape Foundation hide caption