Are schools ready for Prop 28?
Bright and early one recent morning, Jessica Sheldon stood before a crowd of third graders in Sunnyvale. She was playing a ukulele as a microphone hung from her ear — …
Visual arts
Reggie Wells, Oprah’s longtime personal makeup artist, dies at 76
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags BALTIMORE — Reggie Wells, who spent more than 30 years as Oprah Winfrey’s personal makeup artist and worked with former first lady Michelle …
Now you see it, now you don’t: Banksy stop sign taken from London street soon after it appears
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags LONDON — The elusive artist Banksy displayed his latest work on a London street corner and it was taken less than hour after …
A vibrant art scene in Uganda mirrors African boom as more collectors show interest
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags KAMPALA, Uganda — Lilian Nabulime hasn’t forgotten the time in the 1990s when the Ugandan capital had just one commercial art gallery, a …
Oprah Winfrey portrait — featuring the color purple — unveiled at National Portrait Gallery
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags WASHINGTON — It seemed only fitting that Oprah Winfrey chose to wear a flowing, full-length purple dress for her portrait unveiled Wednesday at …
Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts ‘zero-COVID’ after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state
SHENZHEN, China — In one painting, a child sits, mouth wide open, as a worker in white medical garb extends a long cotton swab toward her tonsils. In another, a …
Artist Zeng Fanzhi depicts ‘zero-COVID’ after a lifetime of service to the Chinese state
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags SHENZHEN, China — In one painting, a child sits, mouth wide open, as a worker in white medical garb extends a long cotton …
Censored art from around the world finds a second opportunity at a Barcelona museum for banned works
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags BARCELONA, Spain — A drawing of a nude Donald Trump. A punching bag sculpture shaped like a woman’s torso. A display of women’s …
Even Picasso had to practice, practice: Sketchbooks on display show whimsy, humor, determination
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags NEW YORK — He was a giant of 20th-century art, but that doesn’t mean Pablo Picasso needed a big canvas. Matchbook covers, postcards, …
Philadelphia picks winning design for Harriet Tubman statue after controversy over original choice
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags PHILADELPHIA — The city of Philadelphia has picked the winning design for a Harriet Tubman statue outside City Hall after facing criticism over …