Cholita Mona Lisa: Bolivian artist gives famed portrait indigenous makeover
Alla Baja, BoliviaReuters High in Bolivia’s Andean mountains, surrounded by small thatched roofed houses and sheep, Claudia Callizaya, 32, makes the final brushstroke to her newest piece of art: a take on the Mona Lisa as a local indigenous cholita woman. Her adaptation has the same steady gaze as in Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece portrait […]
“Welcome back!” Several famed museums reopen across Europe
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsAP In the Netherlands, the intimate gaze of the Girl with the Pearl Earring can once again startle and entice visitors. Down in Spain, the rusty maze of steel sheets by Richard Serra is a wonderland anew for art lovers. And at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam can drop jaws […]
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