When I pick the top stories every week, I try to make sure people are always front and center. But for some reason there were loads of amazing art stories that cropped up this week — and after all, isn't art just a different form of people doing good stuff? So take a tour of an epic new Disney castle, marvel at record-breaking paintings and wonder just what, exactly, a medieval English artist was thinking when they made a little silver snail "meme." (He or she was probably giggling, to be honest.) It just goes to show that no matter the time or place, people have always been the same — a little weird, and endlessly, incandescently creative.

P.S. For extra credit, who knows what piece of art inspired today's illustration? I'll put the answer down with the video!

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Disney magic for everyone
Take a good look at the new Castle of Magic Dreams at Hong Kong Disneyland. Among its eclectic turrets and spires you'll see designs honoring all kinds of Disney princesses and the cultures they represent. There's a tower for Mulan, topped with pink cherry blossoms and crossing spears, a nod to her military achievements. Merida's tower is laced with Celtic designs, and Pocahontas' is ringed with swirling leaves. The dome of Moana's is ocean blue, of course, and Elsa and Anna share one topped with, what else, a shining snowflake. Together, the castle is a fascinating celebration of diverse Disney women with plenty of little details for Disney lovers to pore over. (You can see more details in CNN Travel's story here.) "We're understanding different parts of the world, so we can't just focus on one group, or one princess or one location," said Hilcia Pena, a senior architect at Walt Disney Imagineering. "Our stories continue to grow, and we get to learn about different cultures around the world. So how do we put that into the buildings and stories we try to tell?"

Something big and new ...
The world's largest canvas painting is so large, at times British artist Sacha Jafri threw paint on the canvas by the bucketful, and used his hands to bring his vision to life. "The Journey of Humanity" measures more than 17,000 square feet — about the size of four regulation basketball courts. At one point Jafri cut it into 70 different parts, hoping to sell them separately to raise money to help children across the world affected by the pandemic. But at a recent charity auction, a Dubai businessman ponied $62 million for the whole thing. What inspired Jafri to create such a massive work of art? "I wanted to create something poignant, something that would mean something," Jafri told CNN last year, while he was working on the painting. "Something that could potentially make a really big difference." Jafri called for children around the world to contribute their own artworks about connection, separation and isolation during the pandemic. The submissions were printed out on paper and incorporated into the huge canvas.

... and something small and old
I don't know about you, but I love strange medieval art. No one really knew what animals looked like, bored monks filled up manuscript margins with inscrutable doodles, and you can almost feel the sense of humor reaching out to you from the past. Take, for instance, this little silver snail, a piece of art historians are calling a medieval "meme." The piece dates from A.D. 1200-1350 and shows a knight, probably praying, stepping out of … a giant snail shell. Oh, and the snail is on a goat. Snails were used to symbolize cowardice during this time period, and knights were used to symbolize good winning over evil. But all together? Experts think it could be parody or satire, or some sort of joke someone had a good chuckle over 700 years ago. Thank you, nameless medieval British artist. All these centuries later, we still get it … kind of.

Raise a glass to...

Sister Jean, everyone's favorite 101-year-old basketball-loving nun. Sister Jean is a March Madness icon, and a beloved good luck charm for Loyola University Chicago's basketball team. The nun reached TV fame in 2018 after cameras showed her pre-game prayer and her cheering from the sidelines as the team went on a Cinderella run at the NCAA tournament. This year, fully vaccinated from Covid-19, she's getting to watch the Ramblers from the stands. And yes, she's still praying for them. "I plan them — every one," she recently told CNN. "You should see the collection I have in my room. I never say the same prayer, any time, over the years. It's always different for every game." It's helped so far as Loyola defeated No. 1 seed Illinois last week, and will face off against Oregon State in the Sweet 16 today.

Heroes among us

For more than a decade, Zannah Mustapha has devoted his life to providing hope and peace for children caught in the epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency. The militant group's name means literally "Western education is forbidden," and its fighters have terrorized schools for years. Mustapha, a Nigerian-born attorney, humanitarian and 2021 CNN Hero, started educating children affected by this ongoing violence in 2007. Now, he and his staff teach more than 2,000 students from both sides of the conflict at the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation School in Maiduguri. That includes the orphaned children of insurgent fighters, and children displaced by the conflict. So far, he says, 1,023 students have graduated and many have gone on to college or careers. Mustapha did even more lifesaving work four years ago when he helped mediate the release of 103 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram.

Wanna get away?

The Seychelles, a sweeping archipelago nation off the coast of East Africa, doesn't just want you to come enjoy their aquamarine waters and rich jungles. They want you to feel as safe as possible while doing it. After a huge tourism downturn during the pandemic, the country's leaders have almost entirely reopened the country's borders, and are well on their way to completing an aggressive national vaccination strategy. In fact, the Seychelles is just behind Israel in the race to become the first country to vaccinate its entire population. So when you drop by to bask in the year-round warm weather or contemplate the breathtaking granite boulders towering over the beach of Anse Source D'Argent, the only thing you'll have to worry about spreading is sunblock.

Impact your world

In the fight against racial hatred, knowledge can be both a sword and a shield. Esther Lim, a Korean American woman living in Los Angeles, has created a hate crime booklet for Asian American seniors to prepare them in case they are racially targeted. Sadly, seniors are often victims of this type of hate, and Lim noticed a lot of these community members couldn't speak English very well and didn't know what they needed to do to get justice. Last year, she put together a booklet called "How to Report a Hate Crime" with information to guide her parents in case they ever found themselves in that situation. Now, she's published the booklet in seven languages — English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese. More than 4,500 copies have been distributed, and thousands more digital versions have been downloaded online.