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Art & Design
Thursday
A split image shows Allen Ginsberg in 1953 and 1967. Allen Ginsberg LLC/Corbis | The National Portrait Gallery hide caption
Tuesday
The U.S. Embassy in central London in 2009. Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Sunday
A man inspects a plastic cover placed over an artwork attributed to Banksy in London. The stencilled image depicts a poor child making Union Jack flags on a sewing machine and is located on the wall of a Poundland discount shop in the Wood Green area of north London. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images hide caption
Saturday
Nordic Cool Facade. Yassine El Mansouri/Courtesy: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts hide caption
Monday
Stargazy Pie, a cornish dish named for the way the fish heads poke through the crust towards the sky. Courtesy of Sandy Levins hide caption
Sunday
Marcel Duchamp's Cubist-inspired Nude Descending a Staircase was famously described by one critic as "an explosion in a shingle factory." Philadelphia Museum of Art/Copyright succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2013 hide caption
Friday
Thursday
Los Angeles-based artist Ramiro Gomez Jr. displays his immigrant worker art on the Capitol's East Lawn in Washington, D.C. Lizzie Chen/NPR hide caption
Thursday
From West 24th to West 42nd Street, New York's Seventh Avenue is also known as "Fashion Avenue." It's home to major designers as well as those who are just starting out, like Ann Yee and Daniel Vosovic. Michael Katzif for NPR hide caption
Cristobal Balenciaga was known as a perfectionist, especially when it came to sleeves. Blume says, "It was perhaps a sign of real personal attention if you were one of the rare clients that he had lunch with, and at the end of the lunch he ripped out [your] sleeve and reset it." Francois Kollar/AP hide caption
Saturday
A boy hitches a ride on a suitcase as he waits to board a train at Beijing West Railway Station during Chunyun travel peak on Feb. 8, 2007. China Photos/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Very little is known about Girl With a Pearl Earring, which is often referred to as the Dutch Mona Lisa. Superstock/The Art Archive hide caption