Teotihuacán, Mexico Apolline Guillerot-Malick/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. We aren’t the first generation to be impressed by the pre-Columbian megalopolis of Teotihuacán, in central Mexico. The ruins seemed ancient even to the Aztecs, who encountered it centuries after it was abandoned. Awed, the Aztecs gave the site its name: Teotihuacán, or “the place where gods …
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Yinka Shonibare. Photo Andrew Esiebo/©G.A.S. Foundation and Andrew Esiebo In April 2011, Yinka Shonibare visited the Nigerian city of Lagos following an invitation from celebrated curator Bisi Silva, who’d invited the London-based artist for a talk about his practice and to host a show. There was no space to mount the show Silva and Shonibare …
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Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, c. 1890 Collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. A spa city in the South of France founded by the Romans in 122 B.C., Aix-en-Provence is the birthplace of French painter Paul Cezanne (1839–1906). Ironically, however, until 1984 you could not view any of Cezanne’s works in his hometown; …
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Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884–86. The Art Institute of Chicago A view of weekend day-trippers at a popular Parisian park overlooking the Seine, Georges Seurat’s Post-Impressionist masterpiece, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–86), is a study in contradictions: a painting of modern life that doesn’t capture a moment so much …
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Jeff Koons, (Sleeping Hermaphrodite) Gazing Balls, 2025, installation view. Photo: ©2025 Marc Domage/Centre Pompidou-Metz; Art: ©Jeff Koons Just over a year ago, some 100 high-profile contemporary artists—from Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy to Julie Mehretu and Camille Henrot to Claire Tabouret and Julien Creuzet—were invited to copy masterpieces from the Louvre’s collection. Their imitations now form …
Archaeological site of Carthage (Unesco World Heritage List, 1979), Tunisia Getty Images. Modern Carthage is a residential suburb (population 26,000) of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. But in its heyday, the seaside town was the seat of the Carthaginians, whose North African empire gave ancient Greece and Rome a run for their money. Established in …
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Offline director Mika Bar-On Nesher. Courtesy of Offline Earlier this month, Offline, a new, brick-and-mortar gallery created by digital marketplace SuperRare, opened the evocatively titled group exhibition, “Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time.” While Offline did a soft launch in April, the current exhibition is the first open to the public, and it has been …
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Clara Peeters, Still Life with Cheeses, Almonds and Pretzels, 1615 Collection of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. A few years after art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”in a 1971 ARTnews article, she and fellow professor Ann Sutherland Harris came up with an answer of sorts, in the …
Solange Pessoa. Photo Miro Kuzmanovic/Courtesy the artist On a recent summer day in the Colorado resort town of Aspen, while some were hiking through the Rocky Mountains and enjoying the heat, the artist Solange Pessoa was indoors, strewing bones around the basement level of the Aspen Art Museum. She worked with purpose, careful not to …
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1490–1510 Collection of the Prado Museum, Madrid. Digital image: Wikimedia Commons. The word most often used to describe The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1490–1510), surreal, is, in fact, an anachronism. No such term existed when it was created, and there was nothing about it that didn’t …
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