The elaborately tiled City Hall subway station in New York City — still extant but now closed to the public, alas — used the Guastavino touch to convince wary city dwellers to head underground for a train trip. Michael Freeman/National Buildling Museum hide caption
Allan Arbus on the left, with fellow M.A.S.H. stars Loretta Swit, Mike Farrell, Burt Metcalfe, Alan Alda, Kellye Nakahara Wallet and Wayne Rogers at an awards ceremony in 2009. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images hide caption
A portrait is projected on the walls of a building as part of a project promoting art through re-evaluating urban spaces and buildings in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Nov. 22. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Blond with Yams Courtesy of Brendan O'Connell hide caption
Life Pieces to Masterpieces is an arts program that serves the neighborhood of Ward 7 in Washington, D.C. Boys work with mentors to create works of art. Lizzie Chen/NPR hide caption
Left: One of Piet Mondrian's grid-like color block compositions. Right: Caitlin Freeman's cake homage. Art 2013 Mondrian/Holtzman Trust c/o HCR International USA/Reprinted by permission from 'Modern Art Desserts' hide caption
"Beauty draws us in...It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness." Asa Mathat/TED hide caption
In director Gilles Bourdos' biopic Renoir, Christa Theret plays Andree Heuschling, who served as a muse for both the aging Impressionist master and his young filmmaker son. Samuel Goldwyn Films hide caption
Three Seminole men accompany an ox-drawn cart through the Everglades of south Florida. Julian Dimock Collection/American Museum of Natural History hide caption