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Allie Wist's "Flooded" dinner spread includes burdock and dandelion root hummus with sunchoke chips; jellyfish salad; roasted hen of the woods mushroom; fried potatoes with chipotle vegan mayo; salted anchovies; and oysters with slippers. Most of these are foods that might be more resilient to climate change and, therefore, what we could be eating in the future, Wist says. Heami Lee/Courtesy of Allie Wist, food stylist C.C. Buckley, prop stylist Rebecca Bartoshesy hide caption
Wednesday
The Charging Bull and Fearless Girl square off in New York City's financial district. Arturo Di Modica, the bull's sculptor, says the girl staring it down has changed the meaning of his work in an unwelcome way. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
Wednesday
The Pink Star diamond, which fetched the highest price ever for a jewel offered at auction, is displayed at Sotheby's in Hong Kong on March 29. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption
Saturday
Komada holds a netsuke that is about two-thirds of the way finished. It takes up to two months to create one carving. Maia Stern/NPR hide caption
French artist Abraham Poincheval sits over real chicken eggs until they hatch at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Stephane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Friday
Urban Camouflage for Reptiles: "I basically thought about how turtles have camouflage that doesn't really work very well for them in the urban environments they often live in these days," Keats said. "So my thought was, can we go to our military and look at urban warfare as inspiration." Jonathon Keats hide caption
Tuesday
Kerry James Marshall, School of Beauty, School of Culture, acrylic and glitter on unstretched canvas, 2012 Sean Pathasema/The Museum of Contemporary Art hide caption
Kerry James Marshall: A Black Presence In The Art World Is 'Not Negotiable'
Sunday
The Moluccan Cockatoo Feast, from the series The Fantastical Feasts, 2014 Claire Rosen hide caption
How Do You Dream Up A Cockatoo Feast? An Artist Explains In 'Imaginarium'
INGA Wellbeing co-founders: (L-R) Fiona Mc Greal, Claire Robinson and Nikla Lancksweert. Stephanie Derouaux/Les Marquisettes hide caption
Trendy Hospital Clothing To Make Cancer Patients Dress 'Well' Even When Unwell
Tuesday
Models pose at the end of the Marc Jacobs Runway Show at Park Avenue Armory on February 16, 2017 in New York City. In the past, Jacobs has been criticized for culturally insensitive runway shows. This year marked a change. Peter White/Getty Images hide caption
Saturday
Raúl De Nieves' billboard-size Biennial contribution, beginning & the end neither & the otherwise betwixt & between the end is the beginning & the end, is made from everyday material like tape, paper, glue and beads. Matthew Carasella/Courtesy of The Whitney Museum hide caption
From Striking Photos To Surprising Stained Glass, A Wide-Ranging Whitney Biennial
Friday
Autumn Stanford on Ask Me Another. Mike Katzif/NPR hide caption
Thursday
Trading Races, a new game by Kenyatta Forbes, asks players to talk about what it means to be black. @bgrzb hide caption
Monday
Carmen Aguilar y Wedge is the co-founder and director of creative technology for Hyphen-Labs. She modeled the company's ScatterViz visor at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Nina Gregory/NPR hide caption