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British artist Eileen Agar's straw hat with Schiaparelli gloves at the exhibition Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, which opened in March at the V&A. Agar attached to the straw hat a pair of gloves with painted red fingernails, as a reference to a Schiaparelli design of 1928.
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Sergey Kuznetsov has left his post as Moscow's chief architect, which he had held since 2012. After almost 14 years in the position, he intends to turn to projects of his own
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Last night the Great Hall of the Conservatoire was sold out. The Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theatre was marking its 90th anniversary, and did so on the country's foremost academic stage. The programme: Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Leonid Desyatnikov's Opera in a new
Architecture · Art · Museums
Possibly one of the greatest works of the furniture-maker's art: the pair of sofas with sea deities, made in 1765 by John Linnell, one of the first English cabinet-makers. The sofas still occupy their place in the drawing room of Kedleston Hall in central England, in
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Museums · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
A mother dinosaur watches over her brood. This is a photograph of the display at the Museum of the Rockies, where in the 1980s and 1990s the skeleton of Maiasaura stood beside a model of a dinosaur nest with growing hatchlings. The point is that just such a Maiasaura nest,
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An Open-Air Reading Room in the Village of Sovetskoye, Nizhny Novgorod Region. The appetite for reading in an ordinary Russian village in 1932
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The hive is now kept in the museum of the Research Institute of Beekeeping in Rybnoye, in the Ryazan Region
NB! · Architecture · Geography · Moscow · Heritage
A circular locomotive depot. One of these survives in Moscow, in the Komsomolskaya district; last autumn a graphic art fair was held there
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The Russian publicist Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky, a Kammerherr (chamberlain) of Emperor Alexander II, wrote in 1870 to Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich and Maria Feodorovna: All those who are not at court, all who work honestly for the good of the government and of Russia, who are selflessly devoted to
Faith · Art · Museums · New York
A Painting by Garofalo in the Metropolitan Museum Depicts One of the Most Touching Miracles of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino. An ascetic, he refused meat even during a grave illness. When a dish of roast partridges was brought to him, the saint merely made the sign of the cross over