New Takes on Girl with a Pearl Earring, an Ancient Bronze Returns to Turkey & Gold Toilet Whodunnit

On a mood-brightening, happy March note, let’s talk Vermeer, specifically Girl with a Pearl Earring. It’s a marquee work of art, very much loved, and owned by the Mauritshuis in The Hague. The Mauritshuis is the perfect blossom of loveliness among European art museums. It’s intimate, in a compact old building with a collection focused on the best Dutch Golden Age painting. The Mauritshuis has been inviting the public to submit interpretations of Girl with a Pearl Earring. Thousands of Girl groupies responded, and selected photos are now displayed in My Girl with a Pearl, which opened this week. The show’s 60 works include animal, mineral, vegetable, video, and AI interpretation. Kudos to the Mauritshuis, which obviously embraces and honors creativity and isn’t afraid to laugh.

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On a mood-brightening, happy March note, let’s talk Vermeer, specifically Girl with a Pearl Earring. It’s a marquee work of art, very much loved, and owned by the Mauritshuis in The Hague. The Mauritshuis is the perfect blossom of loveliness among European art museums. It’s intimate, in a compact old building with a collection focused on the best Dutch Golden Age painting. The Mauritshuis has been inviting the public to submit interpretations of Girl with a Pearl Earring. Thousands of Girl groupies responded, and selected photos are now displayed in My Girl with a Pearl, which opened this week. The show’s 60 works include animal, mineral, vegetable, video, and AI interpretation. Kudos to the Mauritshuis, which obviously embraces and honors creativity and isn’t afraid to laugh.

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