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Review of the month from Serebrennikov's “Hamlet” to the robberies of French museums

For those who skipped a great many lessons, let me remind you that we began October with an introductory course in alchemy, and then spoke.

📌 about works of art stolen by the Nazis

📌 about the fate of Pompeii after the eruption of Vesuvius

📌 about why one should not refuse Donald Trump

📌 about the turbulence in the Anglican Church following the appointment of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury

📌 about the place of beauty and ugliness in the modern world

📌 we recalled the standard Soviet club; where would we be without nostalgia for the USSR?

📌 we discussed the much-talked-of premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov’s Hamlet at the Théâtre du Châtelet

📌 and the Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

📌 we spoke of how to keep one’s dignity even on the scaffold, and of how modern France has lost its own, dancing on the bones of Marie Antoinette

📌 the month did not pass without sad news, for example, the closure of the Antico Caffè, the oldest café in Rome

📌 and about the thrifty methods of restoration

📌 yet alongside the robberies of French museums, the worst news of the month was the desecration of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

They were served stewed spoiled eggs, roast suckling pig, seaweed, ginger preserve, goose livers, shark-fin soup with crab roe, toasted almonds, soup with pigeon eggs, ham and chicken, boiled young bamboo, green peas, boiled chicken with bamboo shoots, bird's-nest soup with eggs and ham, fried frogs

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

"Madonna with Cherubim" was long considered the work of Giovanni Bellini, until in 1885, during restoration, features characteristic of his chief rival, and incidentally his relative, Andrea Mantegna, came to light. What misled viewers was a softness uncharacteristic of Mantegna. Despite the established title, the Madonna and Child

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection of Peter Ludwig, the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the

Review of the month from Serebrennikov's “Hamlet” to the robberies of French museums

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The Betrothal Feast in Vlas Doroshevich's Satirical Novel “Mu-Xiang”

Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

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