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Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage painted Curfew after a violent flare-up in Mombasa, Kenya, during the early days of the pandemic. One art critic calls it a "modern masterpiece."

Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem has acquired a work by painter and fiber artist Stephen Towns. It comes from his recent exhibit, “Declaration & Resistance,” a collection of paintings and story quilts that explored the roles enslaved and free African American laborers played in building the region’s economy. 

For decades, ice hockey goalies have carried on a tradition of painting their masks. Less visible, though, are the artists who design them — and the thriving cottage industry they've quietly built.

The print, called Edmond de Belamy, is a blurry depiction of what could be a "a man of the church" floating within a gilt frame. In place of the artist's signature is a math equation.

When museum conservators examined Vincent Van Gogh's Olive Trees, they found something curious stuck in its paint: a grasshopper. Could it be just some weird leftover — or a crucial clue?