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I hope you all got to savor a long weekend. To extend that summer flavor, enjoy Sandra Cattaneo Adorno's glistening (and not cliché) photos of Ipanema. Also, don't miss the Maya stone monuments that were just added to the Metropolitan Museum's Great Hall.

— Elisa Wouk Almino, Senior Editor

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Met visitors observing a Maya stone monument in the museum’s Great Hall

Two 8th-century Maya stone monuments, known as stelae, wereunveiled in the Metropolitan Museum’s Great Hall on September 2. The massive statues will remain on view at the museum’s iconic neoclassical hall until 2024.

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Sandra Cattaneo Adorno’s photos are an effervescent tribute to the iconic beach and the joy that it inspires. | Lauren Moya Ford

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