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Head of the Apollo Belvedere
Pen and ink, c. 1532–1536. Berlin Kupferstichkabinett
Alexandr Radayev
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The Sorceress in Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” as a Trial for Gerda, Not an Enemy
The old witch combed Gerda's hair with a golden comb and told her: "You will stay here for ever, my little angel" Illustration by the Scottish artist Eleanor Vere Boyle for an edition of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen", 1872. In
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Maximilian Voloshin's 1919 poem on Rus' in flames and the city of Kitezh
All Russia is a bonfire. An unquenchable flame From border to border, from age to age Hums, roars... And the stone cracks. And every torch is a man. Have we not ourselves, like our forefathers, Set the grass fire? And the hurricane Has fanned it, and in acrid smoke are
Museums · Science · Society
A gathering of museum directors from around the world, Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable 2025, was held in San Francisco on the influence of artificial intelligence on museums; among other things, it discussed the problem of data: most museum…
AI is already used in museum practice: it helps with research, navigation through the galleries, cataloguing and the attribution of works. And the participants called for joint efforts and the creation of a "coordinated body of knowledge about art". What remains the museum's own in the
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Sad
Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
Photograph of a lone gate in a field with a caption about a museum security system
President-Directress of the Louvre: The Museum's Security System Worked to Perfection. The museum's security system:
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Why is Trump called vulgar, while Macrons is not, given all this?
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Glenn Martens presents jewelled lip retractors at the Margiela show
Glenn Martens sent models down the Margiela runway wearing jewelled lip retractors as facial adornments. I do not know whether the new accessory will go on sale or was made for the show alone. The idea is that these are Margiela's signature four stitches, only laid over the
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A Reminder from Leonardo da Vinci: God Is with Us
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Look at this 1904 drawing by Sasha Schneider, “Hypnosis”, reflect that every conversation contains an element of hypnosis, and reconsider your circle of acquaintance
Not medical advice
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I Am Being Painted Again
I am being painted again. Presumably they hope that on canvas I will behave better than I do in life. Serious people, brushes, an easel, inspiration. They say: “We need to capture your inner self.” I say: “Capture the outer one first, so that I can at least recognise myself.