Chadwick Boseman in 2018. The star of 'Black Panther,' who died on Friday at age 43, was beloved in Africa. Evan Agostini/ Invision/ AP hide caption
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Monet's Water Lilies, 1907 Bequest of Alexander Cochrane/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston hide caption
First Lady Melania Trump, center, in a bright, lime green dress at last night's Republican National Convention. It's a color begging to be photoshopped, and the Internet reliably delivered. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
An exterior view of the Whitney Museum of American Art last October in New York City. Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Audi hide caption
A woman enters a public restroom with transparent walls in Tokyo's Shibuya ward. Architect Shigeru Ban designed the bathroom in a way to reassure anyone entering the toilet. Satoshi Nagare/The Nippon Foundation hide caption
The house dress is having a 2020 renaissance. "I think #stayathome made people realize that we need to not just dress to go outside — we need to dress to be inside, love what we wear and feel comfortable," designer Malgosia Archer says. Żaneta Mieszczak/Malgosia Archer hide caption
A Vhils work at La Condition Publique in Roubaix, in northern France, in March 2017. Philippe Huguen/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Photographer Nadiya Nacorda's siblings Khaya (left) and Thandiswa whispering at a fence. Nadiya Nacorda hide caption
Slam poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Emi Mahmoud performs at the Sziget Festival in Hungary in 2019. László Mudra/Rockstar Photographers hide caption
The Rodin Museum in Paris is selling sculptures to pay the bills — and that's exactly as the artist intended. When he died in 1917, Auguste Rodin left the museum plaster casts for just this purpose. Above, The Thinker (Le Penseur) is pictured ahead of the Musée Rodin's reopening in November 2015. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Good Thinking: How Rodin Ensured The Financial Future Of His Paris Museum
In Jennifer Steinkamp's digital animations, trees gradually change color, lose leaves, sprout new leaves, grow flowers, and drop petals to the ground. She's done a series of such trees in honor of teachers who've had a profound influence on her. Jennifer Steinkamp/Lehmann Maupin hide caption
Artist Ekene Ijeoma on the set of "Deconstructed Anthems" at Houston's Day For Night Festival in 2017. Katrina Barber /Resnicow and Associates hide caption
This Audio Portrait Of The 2020 Census Asks: Whose Voices Really Count?
Es Devlin speaks at TED2019: Bigger Than Us. April 15 - 19, 2019. Bret Hartman/Bret Hartman / TED hide caption
Alfredo Ramos Martínez was regarded as a Father of Mexican Modernism, but his name is not widely known in the U.S. Above is Flores Mexicanas, a painting he worked on for 15 years. Dallas Museum of Art hide caption
The Annenberg Space for Photography closed permanently in June. In a survey of museum directors, 33% said there was either a "significant risk" of closing permanently or that they didn't know if their institutions would survive. Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Annenberg Space for Photography hide caption
Paradise Road, Waldo, Kan. Eliot Dudik hide caption
An employee sews a miniature dress in Dior's sewing workshop in Paris on July 4. This year Dior created a miniature collection for its haute couture show and presented it as a film. Francois Guillot/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The "Confusion" mini-wardrobe, designed to express the conflicting feelings sparked by social media. Casper Kofi hide caption
Cunningham shot this image of Paige Alms during a free surf in Maui on Jan. 12, 2018 Sachi Cunningham hide caption
Need A Day At The Beach? Tag Along With Big Wave Photographer Sachi Cunningham
Arthur Jafa, photographed in Milan, Italy on Jan. 14, 2020. Daniele Venturelli/Daniele Venturelli / Getty Image hide caption