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An apartment complex damaged by Hurricane Katrina is shown in this aerial view Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 in Long Beach, Miss. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

The image shows a woman in a black dress, wearing a gold medal engraved with an icon of a book. She smiles brightly, looking slightly to the left of the camera. The woman is Jesmyn Ward, having just received the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction.

Clusters of sheep in one main area

This is the cover of *Maus: A Survivor’s Tale*, a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that tells the true story of a Holocaust survivor—his father—through powerful, symbolic art.

At the top, the title “MAUS” is written in bold, harsh, red letters.…

"Dinosaur" is a colorful and playful sculpture of a large bird, located on the High Line Plinth. It stands out against the greenery and lively environment of the urban park.

Literature: A historical fiction about an Iraqi scholar who, after meeting a bookseller documenting the devastation of war, is drawn into the haunting stories of lives and places destroyed by conflict.

AI image of a boy riding an ox while playing music from a flute

Andy Goldsworthy creates sculptures using natural materials found in the environment where he's working. These materials include leaves, stones, twigs, ice, snow, flowers, and thorns. A key aspect of these works is their ephemerality – they are…

Oil paints on four canvases with painted fabric, mixed media and string

This depicts the war that goes on between the seasons by using bacteria to paint it.