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A traditional priest and fisherman was buried inside a giant blue teapot in Ghana’s Central Region in 2009. The teapot was chosen as his coffin as the priest would use a blue teapot in rituals, according to photographer and academic Regula Tschumi, who has spent decades documenting colorful funerals across Ghana.

Photographer shows the secretive, colorful world of Ghanaian funerals

Artistic coffins and elaborate wakes. Photographs of Ghana’s flamboyant funerals are featured in a new book.

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With his new exhibition “Drawing Awareness,” acclaimed British Nigerian hyperrealist artist Kelvin Okafor aims to celebrate different skin conditions. The inspiration for came from his 2019 portrait of fashion model Winnie Harlow, who has the skin condition vitiligo.

These hyper-realistic pencil portraits are raising awareness of visible skin differences

Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro posing in front of the Grande Sfera, being created for the Exhibition in the Palais-Royal gardens in Paris, in Milan, on June 19, 2002.

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Arnaldo Pomodoro, whose bronze spheres decorate prominent public spaces around the world, dies at 98

Grosse told CNN that she hopes the work makes visitors reconsiders what a painting can be. It “doesn’t have to be like a pancake on a wall,” she says.

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This artist just spray painted a public square in Switzerland

Alice Austen, The Darned Club, 1891, Original glass plate negative, 4 x 5 in, Collection of Historic Richmond
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A new art exhibition says we’ve gotten sexual identity all wrong

Tourists wait in line outside the Louvre museum which failed to open on time Monday, June 16, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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Louvre museum shuts its doors as staff say they are overwhelmed

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This South Korean artist is turning strangers’ Instagram posts into portraits

NEW YORK - AUGUST 27: Taylor Swift performs during the Fearless Tour at Madison Square Garden on August 27, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Why is Friday the 13th unlucky? The cultural origins of an enduring superstition

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This painting survived the Beirut explosion. Here’s how conservators restored it

John Lennon's letter to his future wife, Cynthia, could sell for up to £40,000 ($54,000) at auction.

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John Lennon’s ‘smutty’ love letter to first wife up for sale

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A photograph shows a marble sculpture by French sculptor Auguste Rodin entitled "Le Desepsoir" (The Despair), created between 1892 and 1893, in Villandry, on May 13, 2025. This marble sculpture by Rodin will be sold at auction on June 8, 2025, by the auctioneer Aymeric and Philippe Rouillac, starting at a price of 500,000 euros. (Photo by GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP) (Photo by GUILLAUME SOUVANT/AFP via Getty Images)

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A family thought the sculpture on their piano was a ‘fake’ Rodin. Now it’s sold for nearly $1 million

1. Anonymous, Condom with print, c. 1830. Acquired through the F.G. Waller Fonds

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Rare 19th-century condom with erotic etching goes on display at Dutch museum

Greenpeace environmental activists place a wax statue of depicting France's President Emmanuel Macron in a box in the back of a van - they say they stole earlier at the Grevin Museum - after an action against France's gas and fertilizer imports from Russia, outside the Russian Embassy in Paris on June 2, 2025. According to a police source, two women and a man entered the Grevin Museum posing as tourists and, once inside, changed their clothes to pass for workers. The activists slipped out through an emergency exit with the 40,000-euro-statue, which they had covered with a blanket. (Photo by Emma DA SILVA / AFP) (Photo by EMMA DA SILVA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Macron wax statue stolen from Paris museum for anti-Russian protest

Georgette Chen. Self-Portrait. c. 1934.

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Asian painters were ‘othered’ in Paris a century ago. Now, the art world is taking note

View of the Weston Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse. Visitors in the central Weston Collections Hall at V&A East Storehouse, a working store and new visitor attraction from the V&A located in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London, opening this Saturday, May 31. Issue date: Wednesday May 28, 2025. PA Photo. V&A East Storehouse is home to over half a million creative works, including a section of the now-demolished housing estate, Robin Hood Gardens, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1930s Kaufmann Office – the only complete Frank Lloyd Wright interior outside of the US.

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In this museum space, the objects are yours to touch

"Refreshments" by Caroline Walker.

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How motherhood is being reframed in art

Commuters pause in front of the newly unveiled high relief depicting Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in a passage at Moscow's Taganskaya subway station on May 15, 2025.

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New Stalin monument in Moscow subway stirs debate

Banu Mushtaq, author of 'Heart Lamp' holds the trophy after winning the International Booker Prize, in London, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.

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Indian author Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize with short story collection

FRANCE - JUNE 01: The tomb of Jim Morrison in Paris, France in June, 1985. (Photo by Laurent MAOUS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Jim Morrison’s stolen grave bust found after 37 years

South Vietnamese forces follow after terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang after an aerial napalm attack on suspected Viet Cong hiding places, June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. The terrified girl had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. The children from left to right are: Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, who lost an eye, Phan Thanh Phouc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc, Kim Phuc, and Kim's cousins Ho Van Bon, and Ho Thi Ting. Behind them are soldiers of the Vietnam Army 25th Division. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

Who took ‘Napalm Girl’? World Press Photo ‘suspends’ attribution of historic Vietnam War image

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Visitor stop to look upon Marlene Dumas' 'Miss January' painting estimated at $12-18 million, on display during Christie's press preview for Spring 20/21 Marquee week, York, NY, May 2, 2025. [Editor's note: image contains representation of feminin nudity] (Photo by Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

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Marlene Dumas painting sets new record for living female artist

Wave Murano Glass is a glass factory on the island of Murano in Venice, Italy, founded by Roberto Beltrami, believed to be the youngest Murano glass master.

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How this Boston physics student became one of Murano’s youngest master glassmakers

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Koyo Kouoh, history-making curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale, has died, age 57

Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla unveil their official Coronation State Portraits during a visit to the National Gallery, in London, Britain, May 6, 2025. Chris Jackson/Pool via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

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Coronation portrait of UK’s King Charles unveiled

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