Many of Megan Miranda's thrillers make nature — the deep woods or a steep trail — a central and often menacing character. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
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Artist Tunde Olaniran Steven Piper/Tunde Olaniran hide caption
Artist Tunde Olaniran's 'Made a Universe' opens a portal at a Detroit museum
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Yoshikazu Netsuno (left) watches his son Shinichi hammer a thick stack of specialized paper. In between each sheet is a thin layer of gold leaf. "My son is going to take over this business, so in our case, we had a successor," Netsuno says. "Many other artisans' families in Kanazawa were not so lucky." Jackie Northam/NPR hide caption
Japan's traditional crafts are struggling to survive the country's population decline
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Franklin Armstrong made his debut in the Peanuts in 1968. Peanuts Worldwide LLC hide caption
A project named for 'Peanuts' character Franklin aims to boost Black animators
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Fred Mutebi, a Ugandan artist, holds up one of his paintings, which uses traditional Ugandan barkcloth as a canvas. Madeleine Callanan hide caption
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The large-scale street art "Saw, Sawing" by Claes Oldenburg / Coosje Van Bruggen Sculpture is seen last year in Tokyo. Leon Neal/Getty Images hide caption
James McNeill Whistler's Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, 1861–1863 National Gallery of Art hide caption
Whistler's Mother, meet Whistler's very, very close friend at the National Gallery
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An X-ray image shows this previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh painted on the reverse side of his painting Head of a Peasant Woman. Graeme Yule/National Galleries of Scotland hide caption
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This reconstruction of a marble archer shows the vivid colors that characterized Greek sculpture, and patterns that identify him as a fighter from Persia. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York hide caption
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Takahashi's original comic inspired a worldwide craze, including an anime television series, and a popular trading card game. Christy Radecic/Invision/AP hide caption
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When you check one of the watches made by Kevin Bertolero, you'll find tiny magnetic ducks instead of the time. Halisia Hubbard/NPR hide caption
An image of babies doing parkour generated by DALL-E mini. Weird Dall-E Mini Generations hide caption
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Cara Romero, "Water Memory," 2015 Cara Romero/Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York hide caption
A provocative exhibit at NYC's Met Museum takes a new point of view
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Sam Gilliam's 1968 work Double Merge, which is currently on display at Dia Beacon in Beacon, N.Y. Dia Art Foundation, New York hide caption