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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

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The Peanuts gang celebrates Thanksgiving, but why is Franklin by himself on one side of the table? Allstar Picture Library Limited/Alamy hide caption

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'A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving' turns 50 this year. How has it held up?

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An attendee views one of rising artist Adulphina Imuede's dreamlike illustrations at ART X. Manny Jefferson for NPR hide caption

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Africa's flourishing art scene is a smash hit at Art X

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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

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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

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Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum hosts a retrospective of Simone Leigh's work

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Artist Kelly McKernan in their studio in Nashville, Tenn. 2023. Nick Pettit hide caption

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New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems

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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

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'Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands

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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

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National Museum of Women in the Arts reopening after $70M renovation

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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

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Using AI, cartoonist Amy Kurzweil connects with deceased grandfather in 'Artificial'

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Boo! Halloween is coming. Here's how to decide on a costume

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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

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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

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Walmart heir wants museums to attract more people and donates $40 million to help

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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

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An 'anti-World's Fair' makes its case: give land back to Native Americans

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Film Prize Jr. New Mexico celebrates youth storytellers in latest competition

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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

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London's White Cube shows 'fresh and new' art at first New York gallery

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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

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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

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