View of the Orangerie and Château de Versailles from the Garden, Engraving
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Emmanuel Marre's film “Our Salvation” about his great-grandfather in Vichy opens in France
On 30 September the film "Our Salvation" (Notre salut) by the Belgian-French director Emmanuel Marre opened in French cinemas. In May 2026 it won the prize for best screenplay in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Strangely enough, this large-scale political picture appeals to
National Museum of Korea director criticised over misattributed work from his own collection
Yu Hong-jun, Director of the National Museum of Korea, is being criticised for lending the museum a work from his own collection that turned out to have been misattributed. At the exhibition "Korean Table: Food, Nature and Life", which opened on 1 July, the museum displayed a
The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre Prepare “Rembrandt and the Ancients” for New York in 2027 and Paris in 2028
The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre are jointly preparing the exhibition "Rembrandt and the Ancients". It will open in New York in November 2027 and travel to Paris in 2028. For the first time in more than twenty years, the Metropolitan will show so full a retrospective of
Patriarch Kirill blesses recognition of remains from Oryol cemetery as relics of Athanasius of Oryol
Patriarch Kirill has blessed the recognition of the remains discovered at the Krestitelskoye Cemetery in Oryol as the holy relics of Athanasius of Oryol. The Church canonised Athanasius on 14 May 2026 as a holy fool and confessor. Athanasius was born in 1887 in the village of Danichevo in the