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Robert Siegel talks with artists Alex Schweder and Ward Shelley about their collaborative piece, Stability And Other Tenuous Positions.

Many Olympic athletes competing in Beijing face tracks and terrain they've never competed on before because of COVID-19 limitations. They are scrambling to learn the turf during test runs.

The king of ragtime published his hit tune 120 years ago. Pianist Lara Downes believes the piece helped shape the future of American music.

The Smithsonian Institution has returned more than 200 sacred artifacts to the Yurok Indian tribe in Northern California in one the largest repatriations of Native American artifacts in U.S. history. "Words can't explain how we feel," says Thomas O'Rourke, chairman of the Yurok tribe. "Today, when I thought about it, I cried."

William Faulkner spent two years as the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, where many of his lectures and readings were recorded. Stephen Railton, an English professor at UVA, has digitized those recordings and made them available online.

Painter Matthew Mitchell's project is deceptively simple: He's painting 100 portraits of people who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. The process has taken on a much more powerful reality than he realized it would.

The Daily Beast editor joins Steve Inskeep to chat about the best things she's been reading lately. This month, the selections focus on three contemporary American icons and the ways in which they are presented and understood.

For the first time a major museum exhibition focuses on gay and lesbian portraiture. The National Portrait Gallery's expensive, expansive new show examines how modern art was influenced by GLBT painters, photographers and printmakers.

The Daily Beast editor-in-chief joins NPR's Steve Inskeep for another chat about the best reading she's been doing lately — books and articles about an iconic Depression-era photo, campaign promises and a country that has a way of flying too close to the sun.

Some of China's most treasured antiquities were meant to headline a Philadelphia exhibition. A last-minute bureaucratic snag meant the understudies had to go on.