Designer Mary Quant, one of the leading lights of the British fashion scene in the 1960s, having her hair cut by Vidal Sassoon in 1964. Ronald Dumont/Getty Images hide caption
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The entrance to an exhibit by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is seen at the Orlando Museum of Art on June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. A former Los Angeles auctioneer has pleaded guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. John Raoux/AP hide caption
Monday
Mad Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee attends an event to honor veteran contributors to the magazine at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Cartoonists Society on Oct. 11, 2011, in Savannah, Ga. Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102. Stephen Morton/AP hide caption
Irish artist Pan Cooke combines his love of graphic storytelling with a passion for education and advocacy to create comic strips highlighting prominent cases of police violence. Here, one of his latest strips tells the story of the beating death of Tyre Nichols, who died on Jan. 7 in Memphis, Tenn. Pan Cooke hide caption
Tuesday
Kwame Brathwaite, Self-portrait, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1964; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019) Kwame Brathwaite/Aperture hide caption
Thursday
Portrait of Myrlande Constant. Courtesy of Faena Art. hide caption
Myrlande Constant exhibition honors the labor of working-class artists
Saturday
Nam June Paik, a Korean-born artist who blazed a trail in the fine art world by using video as a medium, is the subject of the new documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. Above, the artist in 1982. Elliott Erwitt/© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos hide caption
Thursday
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There's more to this painting than meets the eye. Nivaagaards Malerisamling hide caption
Friday
Balloons are seen wrapped around a tree in caution tape at Robb Elementary School on May 31, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas, a week after the school shooting. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption
Monday
The new Harriet Tubman monument, titled 'Shadow of a Face' by architect Nina Cooke John, is in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday, March 9, 2023. Ted Shaffrey/AP hide caption
Sunday
Pascale Sablan was once told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's most prestigious firms and she wants more people who look like her to join the field. Aundre Larrow/Pascale Sablan hide caption
Tuesday
America's Cup Building — or the "Veles e Vents" building — in Valencia, Spain, was completed in 11 months to host the America's Cup sailing competition in 2007. Christian Richters/The Pritzker Architecture Prize hide caption
More timeless than trendy, Sir David Chipperfield wins the 2023 Pritzker Prize
Monday
Some of Natalie's weaving projects. Natalie Escobar hide caption
Saturday
Rafael Viñoly, a Uruguayan architect whose portfolio includes London's "Walkie-Talkie" building, died on Thursday. He was 78. Román Viñoly hide caption