"The Departure" from Aïda Muluneh's "The World is 9" collection. The title comes from a saying of Muluneh's grandmother â meaning that the world will never be a perfect 10. Aïda Muluneh hide caption
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The Fearless Girl statue stands facing Charging Bull as tourists take pictures in New York on April 12, 2017. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A statue of surgeon J. Marion Sims is taken down from its pedestal in Central Park on Tuesday. A New York City panel decided to move the controversial statue after outcry, because many of Sims' medical breakthroughs came from experimenting on enslaved black women without anesthesia. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
As artist David Hockney recovered from a minor stroke, he decided to paint portraits of his friends. The result is "82 Portraits and 1 Still-life," an exhibit now on view at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima/LACMA hide caption
What's It Like To Pose For David Hockney? We Asked The People In His Portraits
It took Brynjar Karl Birgisson 11 months to complete the world's largest Titanic replica, using only Legos. Courtesy of Titanic Museum Attraction hide caption
Builder Of World's Largest Titanic Replica In Lego Says His Autism Is A Gift
Kendrick Lamar, whose album DAMN. won this year's Pulitzer Prize for music, performs in London earlier this year. Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The exhibit "Persistence of Vision" had been up since December, months before the allegations against Nicholas Nixon became public. Meredith Nierman/WGBH News hide caption
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New York's Metropolitan Museum Announces Max Hollein As New Director
Dayanita Singh's Museum Bhavan contains nine accordion books that expand into a 7.5-foot-long gallery of black and white photographs. Bilal Qureshi hide caption
Visitors look over the Cloud Gate sculpture, also known as "The Bean," in Millennium Park in Chicago. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
The Hungarian-born French photographer Brassaï (born Gyula Halasz) is one of three photographers currently being featured at MOCA in Los Angeles. Baron/Getty Images hide caption
A 2017 congressional committee report singled out this picture of Donald Rumsfeld as one example of the high cost of official portraits. Unveiled in 2010, after Rumsfeld's tenure as secretary of defense had ended, this official image — Rumsfeld's second — cost more than $46,000. Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
The oil painting Cider Making by William Sidney Mount is on display at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 758. Purchase, Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, by exchange, 1966 hide caption
Jasper Johns, pictured in his New York City studio in 1964, was known for transforming common objects like flags, numerals and archery targets into unsettling paintings. Bob Adelman/© Bob Adelman Estate hide caption
In a full-issue article on Australia that ran in National Geographic in 1916, aboriginal Australians were called "savages" who "rank lowest in intelligence of all human beings." The magazine examines its history of racist coverage in its April issue. C.P. Scott (L) and H.E. Gregory (R)/National Geographic hide caption
French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy at his design house at the Plaine Monceau in Paris, circa 1955. Givenchy has died at age 91. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Doshi's design for Bangalore's Indian Institute of Management was inspired by traditional maze-like Indian cities and temples. Courtesy of VSP hide caption
'Architecture Is A Backdrop For Life,' Says 2018 Pritzker Winner Balkrishna Doshi
A statue of a Native American sitting below a vaquero and a missionary in San Francisco. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Erich Berger and Mari Keto have made radioactive jewels, part of their Inheritance Project, that are unwearable by humans — and remain locked in a concrete vault equipped with radiation measurement devices. Courtesy of Erich Berger hide caption