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José Clemente Orozco, Rear Guard, 1929, lithograph. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the Cullen Foundation, the Friends of the McNay, Charles Butt, Margaret Pace Willson, and Jane and Arthur Stieren
José Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico
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José Clemente Orozco / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico
Joe Bryant, a 12-year-old superfan of German pro soccer, visted Weser Stadium in Bremen a year ago to show off his recreation of Werder Bremen's home field.
Phil Bryant
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Artist Mo Willems is leading a doodle session on election night for children and adults. On the Kennedy Center's website, he will encourage self-expression for anyone who tunes in.
Mo Willems
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Raymonde Elian no longer does her hair and makeup before work. No more earrings. But she still aims to look "neat and clean" as it helps her feel in good spirit.
Melissa Bunni Elian
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Looks like your spice rack on steroids? Nope. Although the colors are a feast for the eyes.
Caitlin Cunningham Photography/Forbes Pigment Collection at the Harvard Art Museums
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Caitlin Cunningham Photography/Forbes Pigment Collection at the Harvard Art Museums
Mark Loughney, Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration, 2014-present. Graphite on paper (series of more than 600 drawings)
Mark Loughney
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Medusa cutting her hair and Hercules exercising at home are two examples of Jonathan Muroya's Greek Quarantology illustration series.
Jonathan Muroya
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The formerly missing panel is titled, There are combustibles in every State, which a spark might set fire to. --Washington, 26 December 1786, Panel 16, 1956.
Anna-Marie Kellen/The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Increased car and foot traffic coupled with rising sea levels have driven parts of the Tidal Basin area underwater.
Sam Kittner/Tidal Basin Ideas Lab
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"The Writing On The Wall" art installation projects writings by incarcerated people onto the sides of buildings, such as The New York State Supreme Court Building, above.
Chemistry Creative
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After making a new life in the U.S., Jacob Moscovitch's mother, or Imma, raised three kids and led the household while working a part-time job. Moscovitch says his older sister Simone told him, "Imma is my superhero, no cape necessary." Here, Imma stands for a portrait in her bedroom on May 8.
Jacob Moscovitch
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