The Ukrainian women who make art in the face of war
Activists as well as artists, these women are responding in paint, photographs and videos to the Russian invasion.(Image credit: © Lesia Khomenko)
View ArticleAmerica, the (disappearing) beautiful
Robert Adams' obsession with the decay and beauty of the American landscape is on display at the National Gallery's exhibition "American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams."(Image credit: ©...
View ArticleA Texas town gets its portrait on a silo
Australian artist Guido Van Helten is known for his large-scale murals, often painted on abandoned industrial sites. Now he's telling the stories of McKinney, Texas, on the sides of its grain...
View ArticleArt and advertising collide in 'Objects of Desire'
An exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art takes the vocabulary of ads (bright color, shiny surfaces, slick lighting) and manipulates, repositions, rearranges it into fine art.(Image credit:...
View ArticleTwo painters, two women, two portraits — one fascinating story of artistic...
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Pablo Picasso painted these portraits more than 75 years apart. But there's a clear connection between the two — and you can now see them on display together.(Image...
View ArticleWhen turkey met cranberries — a dinner date from the 1700s
Turkey and cranberries were linked in print for the first time in a 1796 cookbook. Not long after, (give or take 180+ years), Susan Stamberg began sharing her family's cranberry relish recipe on...
View Article'Visualizing the Virgin' shows Mary in the Middle Ages
An exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum explores how Jesus' mother was portrayed before Renaissance artists painted her with golden curls, perfect skin and blue eyes.(Image...
View ArticleSince candy is popular on Valentine's Day, let's find out where chocolate...
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, a museum in Los Angeles, is honoring the Latin American roots of chocolate. The exhibition is called: The Legacy of Cacao.
View ArticleA quirky museum in Hollywood casts a nostalgic glow on movies' golden era
The Oscars will be handed out on Sunday. Ahead of this year's Academy Awards, we visit the Hollywood Museum in Los Angeles, a chance to browse through movie artifacts from years gone by.
View ArticleBroadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir
In Chita: A Memoir, Rivera recounts her career originating roles in major Broadway shows. Now 90, Rivera remembers West Side Story from the beginning: "I was there at the first flicker of the...
View ArticleMeet the eye-opening curator behind hundreds of modern art exhibitions
Walter Hopps was a visionary and — long before Instagram — an influencer. The Menil Collection in Houston is showing works by 70 artists Hopps spotted, acquired, encouraged or enabled as a...
View ArticleSmithsonian exhibit tells America's history through objects of entertainment
NPR's special correspondent Susan Stamberg visits with curator John Troutman at the Smithsonian exhibit "Entertainment Nation."
View ArticleWhen Whistler's model didn't show up, his mom stepped in — and made art history
Susan Stamberg, one of NPR's "founding mothers," pays a visit to a painting of another famous mother at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: James Abbott McNeill Whistler's 1871 oil on canvas.(Image credit:...
View ArticleThe backstory of 19th-century masterpiece 'Whistler's Mother'
The painting known as "Whistler's Mother" is on display in Philadelphia for the first time in nearly 150 years. It's one of the best-known paintings in the world — and it has a backstory.
View ArticleThis year, Mama Stamberg's relish shares the table with cranberry chutney
It's tradition: Every year, Susan Stamberg sneaks her mother-in-law's relish recipe onto the air. This year, she's also recommending another recipe, too — from actor and food writer Madhur...
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