Largest-Ever Vermeer Exhibition Is Coming

December 27, 2022

Good morning. 🌤️ Today we've got news that the largest-ever Johannes Vermeer is opening at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum in 2023. The museum called it a "once in a lifetime opportunity" to see so many works by the Dutch Golden Age master in one place. It's bound to be a blockbuster, that's for sure.

Also exciting is the new discovery of dozens more ancient geoglyphs, or Nazca lines, in Peru. And no, they weren't made by aliens, in case you were wondering.

There's more, including a look at the complex history of textiles in Colonial Spanish America and the 206th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. Would you like to tell us about your studio? Here's how to do it.

— Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor

Largest-Ever Vermeer Exhibition Opening at Rijksmuseum in 2023

From February through June, the Amsterdam museum will display 28 works by the Dutch Golden Age master. | Elaine Velie

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Researchers at Japan's Yamagata University used aerial photographs and artificial intelligence to identify 168 new Nazca line drawings (courtesy Yamagata University)

Archaeologists discovered 168 geoglyphs near the arid Nazca plain in Southern Peru. The new findings, which encompass images of humans, birds, snakes, cats, and killer whales, date between 100 BCE and 300 CE, when the pre-Incan Nazca civilization lived in the region.

The discovery adds to nearly 1,000 straight lines and hundreds of figurative drawings that have so far been identified as part of the vast Nazca lines.

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