The September issues of fashion magazines are big events and often laden with stars on their covers. This year British Vogue features actress Nicole Kidman, while American Vogue has model actress Kaia Gerber (daughter of model Cindy Crawford) and actor Homer Gere (son of Richard Gere). Both covers, noted The Guardian recently, have stirred controversy. Not so, Dogue, Vogue's digital feature that celebrates pup culture, which has a cover shot of Bad Bunny's four-year-old beagle Sansa Martinez Berlingeri. In today's digitally retouched, AI world, noted the newspaper, dogs are seen as "more real, certainly more characterful."

  Missouri native Thomas Hart Benton painted America Today, a 10-panel mural on canvas, to adorn a boardroom at the New School for Social Research, in NYCs Greenwich Village, New York. Eight of the America Today ten panels depict life in different regions of the United States based on studies he made from observation on various trips throughout the South, the Midwest, the West, and New York. Although the artist received no fee for his work on this commission, he was "pa...