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Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Previously Obscure Modernist, Is Having a Moment

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva’s Peggy Guggenheim Collection show. ©Matteo De Fina It’s fitting that a major survey of the maze-like abstractions of Portuguese French artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908–92) is taking place in Venice, a city whose labyrinthine streets unexpectedly burst into piazzas. In these paintings, patchwork planes of vibrant, tile-like squares …

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Archaeologists in Peru Unveil Ancient 3,500-Year-Old City of Peñico

An aerial view of a building structure in Peñico. Courtesy Peruvian Ministry of Culture Peru’s Ministry of Culture recently revealed the archaeological site of Peñico after eight years of research and conservation work. Located in the province of Huaura, the 3,500-year-old “City of Social Integration” dates back to 1800 BCE and was strategically located “to …

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Bonhams to Auction ‘Downton Abbey’ Costumes, Props Ahead of Final Film Release

Dame Maggie Smith and Hugh Bonneville in “Downton Abbey” Series Six. Courtesy Carnival Films/Nick Briggs via WWD BACK IN TIME: Attention all “Downton Abbey” fans who are finding it hard to say farewell to the franchise. To coincide with the release of the third and final “Downton Abbey” film in September, Bonhams is holding a farewell exhibition and auction of props, costumes …

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Nan Goldin Addresses Israel’s War in Gaza During Arles Talk: ‘Whose Lives Matter?’

Nan Goldin. Photo Stpehane Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images The photographer Nan Goldin once again publicly addressed Israel’s war in Gaza this week, this time during a talk given at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in France. Goldin, the recipient of Kering’s Women in Motion award this year, took the stage at the Théâtre Antique on …

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Homeland Security Targets Chicago’s National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture

Security footage of unidentified agents attempting to enter the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture. Courtesy National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture Agents from the Department of Homeland Security descended upon the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in Chicago on Tuesday, with at least 15 DHS vehicles arriving …

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Who Was J.M.W. Turner and Why Was He So Important?

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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