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07/08/2023 by: Ryan Lutz

NPR focuses on US based contemporary art galleries, museums, and art fairs in its art and design section. With in-depth reporting, interviews, and analysis, NPR's coverage provides insights into the art world's latest developments, trends, and controversies. From emerging artists to established masters, NPR's journalists bring a fresh perspective to art news, highlighting the social, cultural, and political implications of contemporary art.  As one would expect,  NPR's coverage of the arts is well written, informative, and engaging.

Christie's AI art auction inspires protests – and more art

The upcoming Augmented Intelligence sale represents the first time a major auction house is focusing entirely on works created using machine learning. Artists have mixed feelings about it.

Prize-winning pictures: Images from this photo contest show tech changing the world

The website Rest of World got entries from 45 countries for a photo contest focusing on technology. Here are their top picks — from facial scans for migrants to kids

Squeeze into a photo booth for a Valentine's Day smooch

In honor of Valentine's Day, we stop in at the new Photo Booth Museum in San Francisco to find out how people are using the booths to celebrate their love.

A hidden Picasso painting from the early Blue Period is revealed by new technology

Experts analyzing the painting have several theories about why this unidentified woman has remained submerged for more than a century.

Greenland, Still Not For Sale. And the Mona Lisa Gets Its Own Room.

Even if Greenland were for sale, buying the Artic territory would be complicated. And French President Emmanuel Macron promises to renovate the Louvre, which is falling into disrepair.

The Smithsonian will close its diversity office and freeze federal hiring

The Smithsonian isn't a federal agency, but it gets much of its funding from federal appropriations.

Mona Lisa's roommates may be glad she's moving out

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get

The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room

French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic says Macron is aiming for another success after restoration of Notre

A museum's confession: Why we have looted objects

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.

Will all new federal buildings look like ancient Rome now? Not quite.

Among his day one actions, President Trump is reviving his first-term efforts to promote classical architecture for federal buildings.

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NPR ART & Design News
Updated July 8, 2023  by Ryan Lutz