Maurice Sendak, the author and illustrator of children's literature who was best known for his book, "Where the Wild Things Are," died early Tuesday in Danbury, Conn., at age 83. He had suffered a stroke on Friday.

Seward Johnson's "Forever Marilyn," a 26-foot high statue of Marilyn Monroe on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, is dismantled Monday as it prepares to travel to its new home in Palm Springs, Calif.

Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of several books of poems, including most recently, You "Transfer" (BOA Editions, 2011) and "Yours" (BOA Editions, 2005), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.

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Three New Looks on the National Mall

The National Mall here in Washington, D.C., is indeed a national treasure, but it's one that is in some disrepair. The Trust for the National Mall has just held a competition to design three new sections in oft-neglected areas on…

A woman passes a large print of an original Bauhaus poster on the wall of the Barbican in London. "Bauhaus: Art as Life" is the largest British exhibition in over 40 years of the Bauhaus school of art, includes more…

Villagers in Zhengyangguan, in China's eastern Anhui province, raise two children dressed as a deities onto poles. The "floating ballet" is an annual ritual once celebrated in many other villages, but is now on the decline with fewer children now…