An Iraqi man walks past paintings displayed at a gallery in the Karrada district of central Baghdad on April 13, 2010. Sabah Arar/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Estadio Municipal de Braga, designed by Eduardo Souto de Moura. Francois Xavier Marit/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Eleanor Roosevelt and pilot C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson, primary flight instructor at the Tuskegee Institute, 1941. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution hide caption
The "graphic novel" that started it all. Enki Bilal A/Casterman S.A hide caption
Cherry trees bloom in Washington, D.C.'s tidal basin, with the Jefferson monument in the background. Japan gave 3,000 trees as a gift to the U.S. in 1912. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
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Alain Delorme's Totems. Courtesy of Alain Delorme hide caption
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By the time Gauguin arrived in the late 1800s, Tahiti had been "thoroughly Christianized and colonized" by the French, says National Gallery curator Mary Morton. Women didn't walk around half-nude — but Gauguin painted them that way anyway. Above, an 1899 depiction of Two Tahitian Women. The Metropolitan Museum of Art hide caption
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A woman dressed in rags is the subject of Tattered and Torn by Alfred Kappes. Oil on canvas, 1886. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass hide caption
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British fashion designer John Galliano, seen here on the runway during a show for his January fall-winter collection, has apologized for the behavior that led Christian Dior to fire him. Jacques Brinon/AP hide caption
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For 40 years, the Rothko Chapel in Houston has served as a space for personal contemplation, interfaith dialogue and action for human rights. The sanctuary was created by Mark Rothko, who committed suicide one year before the chapel opened. Hickey Robertson/The Rothko Chapel hide caption