3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (305+ words) If you go to an art museum: contemporary, encyclopedic, local " odds are most of the art displayed was made by white men. Even if you leave out the renaissance painters and the Dutch Masters. It's still not that common to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (82+ words) In Germany, robotic AI dogs with the faces of tech's most powerful men are on the loose " courtesy of American artist Beeple. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on May 1, 2026.) AI robot tech bros dogs run wild in…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (225+ words) A statue of a man holding a flag covering his face, and signed 'Banksy', which has appeared in Waterloo Place in London, Thursday, April 30, 2026. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption A statue that was erected mysteriously in central London early Wednesday…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (682+ words) FILE - A private security officer stands next to a closed Russia's pavilion at the 59th Biennale of Arts exhibition in Venice, Italy, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Antonio Calanni/AP hide caption MILAN " The international jury of the Venice Biennale resigned Thursday, just nine…...

3+ mon, 2+ hour ago  (370+ words) Once derided as Britain's ugliest building, London's Southbank Centre is now a protected historic monument " beloved by symphony-goers as well as skateboarders, who've taken over its Brutalist ramps. Southbank Centre is a big brutalist landmark in London. It now has…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (691+ words) NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with Fab 5 Freddy, a pioneer of graffiti art and hip-hop filmmaking, on his new memoir Everybody's Fly. As a young man in 1979 New York City, Fred Brathwaite dreamed of making his mark on the world or…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (202+ words) In his stand-up, films and TV shows, Julio Torres considers the beauty and absurdity of the structures that make up the world around him, and tries to make sense of them. In his latest HBO special, "Color Theories," he explores…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (807+ words) A rendering from Refik Aandol's Machine Dreams: Rainforest, the inaugural exhibition at Dataland. The museum dedicated to AI art is scheduled to open on June 20. Refik Anadol/Dataland hide caption Los Angeles has been the nexus of splashy museum developments…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (422+ words) Philadelphia's Rocky statue gets as many visitors as the Statue of Liberty. Now the Philadelphia Museum of Art is trying to use it to create dialogue between people who disagree. (SOUNDBITE OF BILL CONTI SONG, "GONNA FLY NOW") A new…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (181+ words) Breslin brought a few pinhole cameras into the studio " one made of teak and brass, and one made of an old cookie tin. Breslin explained how the cookie tin camera works. First, you need a light tight container. Then you…...