Chichen Itza, Mexico Getty Images. One of the largest Maya cities, with an estimated population of 35,000 at its peak, Chichén Itzá was founded around the sixth century on the Yucatán peninsula. Its name roughly translates to “at the mouth of the Itzás’ well,” the Itzá being a subgroup of the Maya people who eventually …
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J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, c. 1842 Collection of Tate Britain. Wikimedia Commons. Joseph Mallord William Turner ranks among Britain’s most famous artists, celebrated today for landscapes that rankled his 19th-century contemporaries with their unbridled light and color. His radical legacy lives on in the Turner Prize, awarded annually to …
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The British Museum, London Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images. The British Museum, the world’s first free-to-the-public national museum, opened its doors in 1759. Founded in 1753 by an act of Parliament, after the physician and collector Hans Sloane bequeathed his collection to the nation, the museum immediately had a base of 71,000 items to …
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Sandy Rodriguez, Resistance Map of Gulf of Mexico (detail), 2025. ©Sandy Rodriguez/Courtesy The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art/Collection of the artist In the paintings on paper of Los Angeles–based artist and researcher Sandy Rodriguez, each color has a defined function. “Each pigment carries symbolic power,” she recently told ARTnews. “Maya Blue connects us …
Madalena Santos Reinbolt, Untitled, 1969–77. Photo João Liberato Earlier this spring, artist Julia Isídrez led an informal guided tour at the São Paulo gallery Gomide & Co. The occasion was a joint exhibition featuring her work alongside that of Maria Lira. At face value, the two artists don’t seem to have much in common. They …
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Salvador Dalí, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 Digital image copyright © The Museum of Modern Art, licensed by Scala/Art Resource, New York. Artwork copyright © 2025 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism’s most famous …
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Liz Collins Christopher Garcia Valle /ARTnews Liz Collins had her work cut out for her when she conceived the two 16-foot-long tapestries she showed at last year’s Venice Biennale. Both textiles feature mountain ranges whose peaks emit rainbows that twist through a dark sky, and though they were among the largest works in the Biennale, …
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Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) Courtesy of the artist. ArtNews kindly asked me to write about ten artists of the trans experience • but because there are so many I keep mental notes on • here instead are 25 • lists can sometimes feel so detached and I’m very attached to this subject • so …
Carlos Agredano with his FUME sculpture. Photo Adali Schell/Courtesy the artist Artist Carlos Agredano grew up on a dead-end street in the shadow of the 105 Freeway in Lynwood, a city that borders South Los Angeles. In the early days of lockdown, he would trace a path that ran parallel to the interstate highway, an …
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Cara Romero. ©Cara Romero/Courtesy the artist The photographs of Cara Romero operate on the precipice between the risk of death and possibility of self-dissolution. A woman buried in sand stares resolutely at the viewer, or a figure floats in a body of water below an oil field. Her lens fuses Indigenous ancestral memory with the …
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