An influential color consultancy has already set the tone for the year ahead: Pantone's Color of the Year for 2024 is Peach Fuzz. Pantone hide caption
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Picking a color palette is an important part of decorating for the holidays, says interior designer Elaine Griffin. So experiment with colors outside of the traditional red and green scheme. Photo Illustration by Becky Harlan/NPR hide caption
It's time for holiday decorations. How to create an iconic theme — and save money
Palestinians search the destroyed annex of the Church of Saint Porphyrius, damaged in a strike on Gaza City on Oct. 20. Dawood Nemer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
More than 100 Gaza heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in Washington, D.C. Jan. 29, 1979. Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Photos: Former first lady Rosalynn Carter honored at memorial service
Israa Jaabis, center, a Palestinian prisoner released by Israel, is hugged by relatives as she arrives home in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, early Sunday Nov. 26, 2023. Mahmoud Illean/AP hide caption
In pictures: emotional scenes as Israel and Hamas trade prisoners for hostages
Left: Jax Le, aka 'Jax The Poet', attended Philly FatCon in October. Jax is also the author of the book Love Handles & Muffin Tops: Poems For Body Positivity & Plus Size Bodies. Right: Maggie Clerkin also attended Philly FatCon and called the event felt "refreshing." Jackie Molloy for NPR hide caption
Fat, happy and healed: A movement toward fat liberation
Tatreez is a centuries-old traditional Palestinian embroidery art form. It encompasses the variety of colorful stitching found on Palestinian textiles. Linah Mohammad hide caption
The Peanuts gang celebrates Thanksgiving, but why is Franklin by himself on one side of the table? Allstar Picture Library Limited/Alamy hide caption
'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' turns 50 this year. How has it held up?
Visitors explore the Roman Necropolis at The Vatican. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption
An attendee views one of rising artist Adulphina Imuede's dreamlike illustrations at ART X. Manny Jefferson for NPR hide caption
Design strategist Anna Engstrom created this sketch of a futuristic hospital that appears in Artists Remaking Medicine. She writes that she envisions "a more colorful health care future." Anna Engstrom/Procedure Press hide caption
Simone Leigh, Satellite (2022), installation view in front of the Hirshhorn Museum entrance on Independence Avenue. Bronze. Rick Coulby for the Hirshhorn/Simone Leigh, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery hide caption
Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum hosts a retrospective of Simone Leigh's work
Artist Kelly McKernan in their studio in Nashville, Tenn. 2023. Nick Pettit hide caption
New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems
Left to right: Norm Sundholm, Lynn Easton, Dick Peterson, Mike Mitchell, and Barry Curtis of the touring version of the rock and roll band "The Kingsmen" perform onstage in 1964. Michael Ochs/Archives/Getty Images hide caption
'Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands
Niki de Saint Phalle's Pregnant Nana (1995) greets visitors to third-floor galleries dedicated to pieces from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Jennifer Hughes/courtesy of NMWA hide caption
National Museum of Women in the Arts reopening after $70M renovation
Cartoonist Amy Kurzweil's new graphic memoir, Artificial: A Love Story, focuses on how she and her father Ray harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to connect with the grandfather she never knew. Marissa Leshnov for NPR hide caption
Using AI, cartoonist Amy Kurzweil connects with deceased grandfather in 'Artificial'
Portfolio Award Winner: The ancient mariner. Pangatalan Island, Palawan, the Philippines. The tri-spine horseshoe crab has survived for more than 100 million years but now faces habitat destruction and overfishing for food and for its blood, used in the development of vaccines. Laurent Ballesta/Wildlife Photographer of the Year hide caption
The Museo de Arte in Puerto Rico is one of 64 art museums receiving grants as part of a new initiative called "Access for All" funded by Alice Walton's Art Bridges foundation. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico hide caption
Walmart heir wants museums to attract more people and donates $40 million to help
The artists, brothers Adam and Zack Khalil and Jackson Polys, are part of the collective the New Red Order. They call it a "public secret society." Here they are with Creative Time curator Diya Vij. Keren Carrión/NPR hide caption
An 'anti-World's Fair' makes its case: give land back to Native Americans
Award Ceremony Film Prize Jr NM hide caption
Film Prize Jr. New Mexico celebrates youth storytellers in latest competition
White Cube, the London-based gallery that helped shape the Young British Artist movement, has opened its first permanent U.S. branch in New York. Nicholas Venezia/White Cube hide caption
London's White Cube shows 'fresh and new' art at first New York gallery
The artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of this year's MacArthur fellows. Her sculptures, paintings, installations and photography are displayed in over 30 museums around the globe. When she got news of the so-called "genius grant," she says, " I was running room to room in the house, feeling a sense of terror and elation." MacArthur Foundation hide caption
Philip Bermingham, who is 6'4", shot this portrait of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after crawling down to the ground below her, to make it easier for the diminutive Ginsburg to look directly into the lens. Courtesy Philip Bermingham hide caption