Jasmine Cho's cookie portrait of Afong Moy, who is often cited as the first Chinese woman to step foot in the United States. Beginning in the 1830s, Moy was put on display before crowds as a curiosity. Jasmine Cho hide caption
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A stand of trees — some dead, some still clinging to their leaves — in Blackwater Wildlife Refuge on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
'My Papi Has A Motorcycle' Pays Loving Tribute To A California Childhood
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The Mapping Memory exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, displays maps made in the late 1500s of what is now Mexico. They were created by indigenous peoples to help Spanish invaders map occupied lands. This watercolor and ink map of Meztitlán was made in 1579 by Gabriel de Chavez. Blanton Museum of Art hide caption
440 Years Old And Filled With Footprints, These Aren't Your Everyday Maps
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Men wait to board a non-existent plane in Adrian Paci's 2007 video, Centro di permanenza temporanea (Temporary Detention Center). Courtesy of the artist and Kaufmann Repetto hide caption
Artists Take On Global Migration: 'It's Hard To Watch And It's Hard Not To Watch'
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The Confitería del Molino, once a bustling pastry shop adjacent to the Argentine Capitol building, reopened recently for a few hours in a sneak preview of its full restoration. Carlos Schroder for NPR hide caption
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Big royal statues from the Kingdom of Dahomey, in present-day Benin, are pictured in 2018 at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris. Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Across Europe, Museums Rethink What To Do With Their African Art Collections
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'Soul. R&B. Funk.' Features A Decade Of Photos From 'The Best Seat In The House'
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Ray and Charles sit in their living room in 1958. An intimate alcove was tucked into the larger, high-ceilinged room. Julius Shulman/J. Paul Getty Trust hide caption
Charles And Ray Eames Made Life Better By Design; Their Home Was No Exception
Contestants Kerstin Nordstrom and Wynter Chatman appear on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York. Mike Katzif/NPR hide caption
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A set of pink seesaws allowed people to share some fun along the U.S.-Mexico border wall this week. Here, a woman helps her little girls ride the seesaw that was installed near Ciudad de Juarez, Mexico. Christian Chavez/AP hide caption
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This costume, with corn husks and feathers and paper flowers, is worn by a member of a dance group that gathers in cemeteries and other places to mark Day of the Dead festivities (called Xantolo, the word written above the mask). The idea of combining a skeletal mask with European fashion was devised by the Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada, who lived in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Phyllis Galembo hide caption
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Zara's parent company Inditex announced new sustainability goals this month. But can a fast-fashion brand built on growth truly become sustainable? Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption