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Alexandr Radayev
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Peter II and Tsesarevna Elizabeth Out Hunting with Hounds, Valentin Serov, 1900
Peter II and Tsesarevna Elizabeth Out Hunting with Hounds, Valentin Serov, 1900. Tempera and gouache on paper mounted on board
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As They Say, Take It Away!
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US soldiers with Manet’s “In the Conservatory”, looted by the Nazis, in the Merkers mines in 1945
US Army soldiers in the Merkers mine vault with Édouard Manet's painting "In the Conservatory", looted by the Nazis. 25 April 1945
NB! · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Eros Stringing His Bow
Eros stringing his bow. The Hermitage. Roman marble copy of the 2nd century AD after a Greek bronze original of the second half of the 4th century BC.
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They Stand There Swapping Jokes, Delighted
They stand there swapping jokes, delighted. Recalling, no doubt, the secret memoirs of Edward VIII on his collaboration with the Third Reich and his plans to regain the throne with Hitler's help.
Faith · Observations · Society
Guterres's metaphor of the gates of hell and its meaning in ancient and Christian tradition
The UN Secretary-General's words about humanity having opened the gates of hell caught our attention: "Our focus here is on solutions to the climate crisis – and our task is urgent. Humanity has opened the gates of hell. Horrifying heat has horrifying consequences. Fires are raging. The
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"In the Air, Brenner Island", 1996 and "Island Roses", 1978
"In the Air, Brenner Island", 1996 and "Island Roses", 1978. The magic realism of the American artist Jamie Wyeth
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Embossed metal artwork on a blue ground in a gallery
NB! · Art · Observations · Society Pages · Humour
And There My Review of the Contemporary Art Fair Comes to an End
And there my review of the contemporary art fair comes to an end. In all the photographs for the society pages I shall appear with the KM20 bag; when the photographers offered to shoot me without the carrier bag, I replied: I am not ashamed of carrier bags.
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I Could Not Get a Word with the Artist, but One of the Plasticine Women, the One on the Right, Appears to Be Interacting with a Giant Tardigrade
I could not get a word with the artist, but one of the plasticine women, the one on the right, appears to be interacting with a giant tardigrade. And there is, after all, a great deal of interest to discuss with a tardigrade; I would gladly have had a chat
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