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Igor Shelkovsky, it turns out, on 99% of contemporary artists

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Igor Shelkovsky exhibition “Celestial City. The Artist’s Workshop” at MAMM until 15 December

The Multimedia Art Museum is hosting a major exhibition of Igor Shelkovsky, "Celestial City. The Artist's Studio". Together with the retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery and MAMM, it is the largest exhibition of the master's work. Shelkovsky is one of the outstanding nonconformists, a

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Beloved Beauty Moscow

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The Getty Museum bought a kouros for 10 million dollars, but later checks pointed to a forgery

At the close of 1983 the art dealer Gianfranco Becchina approached the Getty Museum in California, offering to sell it a beautifully preserved marble statue of the 6th century BC for a record 10 million dollars. The museum people naturally took the two-metre kouros away for examination, which pointed

Colour lithograph: a man in a blouse holds a flag on a throne under a red canopy, surrounded by an armed crowd, scattered papers and an ermine robe.

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Insurgent with a tricolour flag standing on a throne in a ransacked palace hall

NB! · Architecture · Monarchies · Observations · Heritage · Paris

The restored furnishings of Louis XVIII's throne room in the Louvre raise one question: why do the proportions and appearance of the canopy differ so greatly from the dome above the throne under Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III?

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Good Lord, how touching!

Good Lord, how touching! A memorial notice of the death of Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon king of England, in the Hastings Observer

Page 75 of an old Russian book in pre-reform spelling, describing a booklet of virtues ruled with red ink.

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A table of virtues for daily self-examination following Pythagoras

No Life Coach Will Ever Teach You This. Draw up a table of virtues, and whenever you commit an offence against any one of them, put a little mark in the appropriate column. The moment you complete a bingo card, congratulations: you have lost

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Should Earthlings Offer the Cosmos Darya Dontsova and Barbara Cartland, or the Brontë Sisters and George Sand After All?

Should Earthlings offer the cosmos Darya Dontsova and Barbara Cartland, or the Brontë sisters and George Sand after all? That is the question

A white crenellated wall with arches beside a red-brick building with white decoration and a green canopy. Above them, a blue sky with wispy clouds.

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White wall and red-brick annex beneath a cloudy sky

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Novodevichy Convent after restoration

A pale two-handled pot with floral garlands, with a figure of Napoleon in a blue uniform with a yellow collar inside.

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English chamber pot with a figure of Napoleon inside, early 19th century

Chamber pot with a figure of Napoleon. 1803-05, England. Can you imagine how afraid the English were of this man?

Alexandr Radayev