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Keith Haring at his Pop Shop in SoHo, 1986 Tseng Kwong Chi / Muna Tseng Dance Projects Inc./The Keith Haring Foundation hide caption
An exhibition of Keith Haring's art and activism makes clear: 'Art is for everybody'
The CPSC commissioned new stock photos showing Americans with disabilities using a variety of home safety devices, including portable generators. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission hide caption
Three days before her gender-affirming surgery, Chedino Martin poses for the camera in the home she shares with her fiancé, Keagan, and his deaf parents, Maria and Keith, in the Hanover Park neighborhood of Cape Town, South Africa, in 2017. Julia Gunther hide caption
Miss Trans Africa's Long Wait for Freedom
Best friends Elora and Kayla practice their Bollywood routine for a community Diwali event in Virginia. The holiday celebrates light in the darkness, renewal and rebirth, and the triumph of good over evil. Maansi Srivastava hide caption
Through her grief, an Indian American photographer rediscovers her heritage
A portrait of Prince taken by Lynn Goldsmith (left) in 1981 and 16 silk-screened images Andy Warhol later created using the photo as a reference. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States hide caption
John R. Gossage, Portrait of Walter Hopps, 1969. Photograph. The Menil Collection, Houston, Promised Gift of Caroline Huber and the estate of Walter Hopps. John R. Gossage hide caption
The parking lot at Hilltop Mall in Richmond, California. The U.S. has devoted huge swaths of its cities and suburbs to storing cars. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Twenty-two timber cabins, built for enslaved people, are on the Evergreen Plantation in the West Bank of St. John the Baptist Parish, La. Brian M. Davis/Louisiana Trust for Historic Preservation hide caption
Visitors to "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined" at the New Museum are greeted by "In Two Canoe" (foreground) and "For Whom the Bell Tolls," two sculptures by the Kenyan-born artist that feature fantastical hybrid creatures set against a landscape that uses gray emergency relief blankets to depict the silhouette of Mount Kenya. Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni hide caption
Gabriel García Márquez attends a Latin American film festival in Havana, on Dec. 5, 2006. A previously unpublished novel by the late Colombian author is due out next year. Baltazar Mesa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An iteration of Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" has previously sold for $120,000, most famously at Art Basel Miami in 2019. A college student who recently viewed the art in a Seoul museum said he ate the banana after skipping breakfast. Cindy Ord/Getty Images hide caption
Designer Mary Quant, one of the leading lights of the British fashion scene in the 1960s, having her hair cut by Vidal Sassoon in 1964. Ronald Dumont/Getty Images hide caption
The entrance to an exhibit by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is seen at the Orlando Museum of Art on June 1, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. A former Los Angeles auctioneer has pleaded guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. John Raoux/AP hide caption
Mad Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee attends an event to honor veteran contributors to the magazine at the Savannah College of Art and Design and the National Cartoonists Society on Oct. 11, 2011, in Savannah, Ga. Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102. Stephen Morton/AP hide caption
Irish artist Pan Cooke combines his love of graphic storytelling with a passion for education and advocacy to create comic strips highlighting prominent cases of police violence. Here, one of his latest strips tells the story of the beating death of Tyre Nichols, who died on Jan. 7 in Memphis, Tenn. Pan Cooke hide caption
Kwame Brathwaite, Self-portrait, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1964; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019) Kwame Brathwaite/Aperture hide caption
Portrait of Myrlande Constant. Courtesy of Faena Art. hide caption
Nam June Paik, a Korean-born artist who blazed a trail in the fine art world by using video as a medium, is the subject of the new documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV. Above, the artist in 1982. Elliott Erwitt/© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos hide caption
There's more to this painting than meets the eye. Nivaagaards Malerisamling hide caption
How these art sleuths reunited a family after centuries apart
Balloons are seen wrapped around a tree in caution tape at Robb Elementary School on May 31, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas, a week after the school shooting. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption
The new Harriet Tubman monument, titled 'Shadow of a Face' by architect Nina Cooke John, is in Newark, New Jersey, on Thursday, March 9, 2023. Ted Shaffrey/AP hide caption
Pascale Sablan was once told she'd never become an architect because she's Black and a woman. Now she works for one of the world's most prestigious firms and she wants more people who look like her to join the field. Aundre Larrow/Pascale Sablan hide caption