Two bright graffiti-style paintings on a white gallery wall: a cartoon girl with a blue bow and a portrait of a blonde woman.

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Adrien Brody makes his debut as a painter at an exhibition in New York

Paintings from Adrien Brody's debut exhibition in New York as proof that a man cannot be equally bad at two different things. And Brody the painter is even worse than Brody the actor

Architecture · The East · Heritage · New York · Society

Trump's order cutting foreign aid deprives World Monuments Fund of seven grants

Trump's order cutting foreign aid from the USA has struck heritage protection programmes. The US presidential administration plans to cut around $60 billion of foreign assistance, including the closure of almost half of overseas grants. One of the organisations affected is the New York-based World Monuments Fund:

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Russian Ministry of Culture Signs State Contract for Restoration Work on Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square

The Russian Ministry of Culture has signed a state contract for restoration work on Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square. The value of the contract is 19.6 million roubles. The deadline for completing the work under the state contract is 27 August 2026.

Aristocracy · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums

The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets

The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets. The portrait does not gather all of Pushkin's descendants who served in the

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When you feel like a happy walrus

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, 1962

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Photograph of a relief with a portrait medallion and a vaulted hall drawing at an exhibition

Nature · Humour

The Execution of Prometheus, Had It Been Filmed in Present-Day Hollywood

Angela Merkel at the Marlow Bird Park during a visit to her former constituency of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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Euler diagrams showing which identical letters are shared by the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic alphabets

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Paris

In 1896 the Louvre bought the tiara of the Scythian king Saitaphernes for 220,000 francs

In 1896 the Louvre bought the tiara of the Scythian king Saitaphernes for 220,000 francs. Eight of the foremost specialists in antiquity and the history of art pronounced it a masterpiece and assured everyone that it would become the pride of the Louvre. The Imperial Museum in Vienna had

Books · Moscow · Education · Society

Karion Istomin's illustrated Primer, published at the Print Yard in 1694

Presidential adviser Yelena Yampolskaya proposes abandoning the "Azbuka" and calling it the "Bukvar" Well then, I propose that we return to the ancient Primer of Karion Istomin, hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery in Moscow, writer and court poet, who produced the first illustrated Russian alphabet book.

NB! · Moscow · Humour

We would have been the perfect couple, but I am at Chistye Prudy in Moscow, and you are on the outskirts of Inman, South Carolina

Faith · Observations · Society

During yesterday's telephone conversation with Pope Leo XIV, Vladimir Putin once again congratulated the pontiff on his election and wished him success in the discharge of his lofty mission

Both sides noted the great personal contribution of Pope Francis to strengthening relations between Russia and the Holy See. It was agreed to continue efforts aimed at the further development of these ties in the interests of building a more just world order. Particular attention was given to the situation

Alexandr Radayev