Archaeology · Faith · Art · New York

A Landmark Event for the History of Art and Culture and for Collectors Alike

A landmark event for the history of art and culture and for collectors alike. The oldest known tablet bearing the “Ten Commandments” from the Book of Exodus has been sold at Sotheby's in New York, fetching twice its pre-sale estimate. The artefact is considered the only surviving

Faith · Moscow · Museums · Heritage

The State Historical Museum Begins the First Stage of Restoring a Unique Nineteenth-Century Icon, "The Saviour of Smolensk with Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn Kneeling", from Saint Basil's Cathedral

The State Historical Museum has begun the first stage of restoring a unique nineteenth-century icon, "The Saviour of Smolensk with Saints Sergius of Radonezh and Varlaam of Khutyn Kneeling", from Saint Basil's Cathedral. The icon has been handed over to the Grabar restoration workshops. The

Dark silhouettes of trees and a house, a lit street lamp and a glowing window reflected in water, beneath a pale sky with white clouds.

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René Magritte, The Empire of Light: a night street under a daytime sky

Art · Books

René Magritte's paradoxical series "The Empire of Light": a bright daytime sky above a night-time landscape of houses and trees

The series comprises no fewer than 17 works, titled for the most part "The Empire of Light", together with "God's Drawing Room" and "Luck". By various estimates, as many as 27 paintings are counted in the series. They were painted over many

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Comet NEOWISE in the sky above Stonehenge in the summer of 2020

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Oh, Those Mothers

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Armchair in the form of ginkgo biloba leaves by the French designer and Surrealist artist Claude Lalanne (1924–2019)

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Shall we ask Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti whether he had extraterrestrials in mind when he painted this picture?

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The Bracelet of Ramesses II with Ducks

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It Is Exactly as Vanessa Stockard Showed It

Cinema · Observations · Humour

Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalugina in the film "Office Romance" is, by the plot, only 36

Lyudmila Prokofyevna Kalugina in the film "Office Romance" is, by the plot, only 36. Alisa Freindlikh was 43 at the time of filming. In short, take care of yourselves, stress included, so that at 36 you are not played by a 43-year-old lady.

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Alexandr Radayev