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A new exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens is shedding light on the lives of ancient Greek women through 180 artworks and antiquities. The show, titled "Women in Antiquity: New Perspectives," reveals gems of Cycladic art featuring goddesses, religious icons, and everyday women.

The exhibition challenges traditional narratives about women in ancient Greece, showing them not just as passive figures but as active participants in society, religion, and culture. Through carefully selected artifacts, the show demonstrates how women were involved in various aspects of life, from religious ceremonies to economic activities.

Using technology from Factum Arte in Madrid, the museum will enhance its collection of 19th-century plaster casts of Michelangelo masterpieces, such as the head of David and the Medici Madonna, with newly created 3D-printed replicas. These replicas provide access to works that are otherwise unattainable due to immobility or location.

The show's curator, Matthias Wivel, said he is not concerned that the use of replicas might be off-putting to audiences. "We will achieve a beautiful exhibition with them that will be compelling to the public," he said. "The appreciation and study of art has always relied heavily on reproductions. Without them both would be much more limited. Used responsibly, there is huge potential and value in using reproductions."

A new exhibition at Prague City Gallery's Stone Bell House arrays hundreds upon hundreds of Bruce Weber's photographs. They represent the iconic body of work he's created over a six-decade career, capturing his fashion photographs, magnetic images of celebrities, photojournalistic outings, and sweeping landscapes.

It's an unlikely venue for a photographer who has long been entwined with American culture—from his portraits of such figures as Madonna and Joan Didion, to his commercial work with the likes of Calvin Klein, to his cinematic tribute to Chet Baker. Yet, over email, Weber, now based between Miami and New York, professed an abiding connection to the Czech capital, one that's only grown since he first alighted on the city to photograph Heath Ledger for Vanity Fair 25 years ago.

"Surrealism" at the Centre Pompidou, Paris Through January 13, 2025

There's still time to catch the expansive, traveling "Surrealism" show on its Paris leg, where the movement originated. This trailblazing exhibition, which changes drastically as it travels—it began at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels, and heads to Madrid, Hamburg, and Philadelphia next—is a celebration of the movement's centennial.

French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own career off the ground (his first solo exhibit at Ambroise Vollard's gallery in 1904 was far from successful), Matisse took a liking to the prints, which offered a whole new way of looking at the world.

The exhibition also highlights stylistic differences related to taste, culture, and history. Where Matisse typically placed his models in an indoor setting, either undressed or in revealing, sensual clothing, Japanese artists generally depicted female figures in public places, wearing elaborately patterned kimonos that commanded as much attention from the viewer as the individuals wearing them.

Conservators at The Courtauld Institute in London have discovered an image of a mystery woman hidden beneath one of Picasso's most famous Blue Period paintings. The unknown image was discovered when The Courtauld took x-ray and infrared images of Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901), revealing the outline of an unidentified woman with a distinctive chignon hairstyle, which was fashionable in Paris at the turn of the century.