
Custom suits and mannequins on display for the current exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." Adrianna Newell for NPR hide caption
Custom suits and mannequins on display for the current exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." Adrianna Newell for NPR hide caption
A diptych showing a "Hapa Project" participant's answers to the question, "What are you?" On the left, the participant is shown in 2001, and then again in 2025 on the right. Kip Fulbeck hide caption
Sahana Kargi tries on the crown she received after competing in the Miss Utah Volunteer pageant in Salt Lake City on Nov. 14, 2024. Kavya Krishna hide caption
Cartoonist Scott Adams, pictured in 2014, said Monday he has metastatic prostate cancer and does not expect to survive the summer. Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images hide caption
Shen Yun dance troupe on a billboard advertising an upcoming performance in Leavenworth, Kansas. Michael Siluk/Universal Images Group/Getty Images hide caption
Ruth Asawa, Albert's Rose Bouquet (PF.564), 1990; private collection. This bouquet, given to the artist around Mother's Day in May 1990 by her husband, Albert Lanier, was among the many Asawa sketched over the years. © 2025 Ruth Asawa Lanier Inc., courtesy David Zwirner; photo: James Paonessa hide caption
Teyana Taylor at the 2025 Met Gala Theo Wargo/FilmMagic hide caption
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Ada Limón Shawn Miller/Library of Congress hide caption
Durham, N.C. - April 26th, 2025: Former Carolina Chocolate Drop member Rowan Corbett (left) and a shopper look at banjos inside a pop-up shop at the Biscuits and Banjos festival. (Cornell Watson for NPR) Cornell Watson for NPR hide caption
Artist Ana Inciardi's vending machine prints feature food items and the tools that are associated with them. Ana Inciardi hide caption
Ronald Reagan, Amelia Earhart, Kobe Bryant and Albert Einstein will be among those honored in the National Garden of American Heroes. Getty Images hide caption
"Correspondence is a leap of faith, and that is part of what makes it wonderful," says Rachel Syme, author of Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence. "You may never know if the person you are writing to will write you back." Illustration © by Joana Avillez, Reprinted with permission from Syme's Letter Writer by Rachel Syme/Clarkson Potter Publishers hide caption
This panel is from the "Slingshot Spiders" comic that describes the manuscript "Ultrafast launch of slingshot spiders using conical silk webs", published in the journal Current Biology. Lindsey Leigh/Bhamla Lab hide caption
Arewà Basit poses in front of Trans Forming Liberty (2024), a 10-foot oil painting by Amy Sherald for which she served as the model. Sansho Scott/BFA.com hide caption
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, Jamese Jefferson and Gloria Bollock, 1992, acrylic on Hydrocal plaster life cast Anacostia Community Museum/Smithsonian Institution hide caption
The Gamble House in Pasadena
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The site of a former lead and zinc mine in Kabwe, Zambia. Thirty years after the closure of the mine, the land remains highly contaminated — and artisanal miners continue to work here, exposing themselves daily to dangerously high levels of lead. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption
A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Many ancient statues were scented, a researcher says. China Photos/Getty Images hide caption
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 24: Vincent D'Onofrio attends the Daredevil: Born Again red-carpet launch event at The Hudson Theater on February 24, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Disney) Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Disney hide caption
The Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kan., says more young people have been attending exhibitions since it decided to stop charging admissions for its permanent collection in 2023.
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