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While in France the Musée Picasso prepares to issue officially a new edition of bronze sculptures by the late artist, in Russia a case is raging over the sale of forged casts of works by Ernst Neizvestny and their display at the Tretyakov Gallery

This case has been dragging on since May, and I deliberately refrained from writing about it. In the first place, it seemed to me that for many years now everyone with even the slightest connection to art collecting and the life of Russian auctions has known that our market is

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Museum with the world's largest Picasso collection funds its “Picasso 2030” project through an edition of bronzes

The Musée national Picasso in Paris will issue an exclusive edition of eight bronze sculptures by the artist to raise money for an extension of the building. The museum holds the largest collection of works by Pablo Picasso in the world. And now, as the "Picasso 2030" project

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Astrophysicist Henriksson finds how Old Uppsala fixed the date of its winter sacrifice

Swedish astrophysicist Göran Henriksson of Uppsala University has established that the pagan inhabitants of Old Uppsala used an exact lunisolar calendar to fix the date of the great winter sacrifice. In the pre-Christian era Old Uppsala was the principal religious and political centre of the Svear, one of the

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Traces of cannibalism found on bones from three Neolithic caves

A team of researchers from the Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution has found traces of cannibalism in three caves in southern Spain. The scholars examined some one thousand human bones and teeth from the caves of Malalmuerzo, Carigüela and Maiolicas. They looked for signs pointing to the

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On 9 June 1994 the British channel ITV broadcast a documentary by the journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in which Prince Charles, now King Charles III, admitted to adultery

On 9 June 1994 the British channel ITV broadcast a documentary by the journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in which Prince Charles, now King Charles III, admitted to adultery. By then Charles and Diana had already been living apart for a year and a half. That same evening Princess Diana arrived at

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Joseph Brodsky's 1990 poem about a shepherds' camp, a star and an infant

No matter what was around them. And no matter what the blizzard was drawlingly howling about; That they were cramped in the shepherd's lodging, That there was no other place for them in the world. Firstly, they were together. The second thing, and the main one, was that

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Leo Tolstoy on the calm of ordinary people in the face of suffering and death

Whereas the cleverer we become, the less we understand the meaning of life and the more we see some wicked mockery in the fact that we suffer and die, these people live, suffer and draw near to death with calm, and more often than not with joy. Whereas a calm

Detail of an old icon: a seated woman with a halo, in golden robes, nurses an infant. Behind her hangs a scarlet curtain; a patterned coverlet lies below.

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Icon detail: a haloed woman nursing an infant before a red curtain

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Among the many museum and gallery events of the past week, I want to single out one: the exhibition "Childhood. Adolescence. Sanctity"

Among the many museum and gallery events of the past week, I want to single out one: the exhibition "Childhood. Adolescence. Sanctity" at the Andrei Rublev Museum, which runs from 3 September to 15 November 2026. More than a hundred works from the late fifteenth to the early

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DNA from Song-era melon seeds in a flooded port at Wenzhou points to a South Asian origin

This melon seed is more than 1,000 years old, and its DNA proves that melons reached China from South Asia. Melon seeds found during the 2024 excavations at the submerged medieval port of Shomen Gugan, in the present-day city of Wenzhou in south-eastern China, have preserved their

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Decorrelation stretch from a NASA laboratory and the DStretch program in archaeology

A NASA Method for Processing Satellite Images Is Now Used to Read Faded Rock Art. The technique is called decorrelation stretch. The algorithm was developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and its description was published in 1996 by a member of the laboratory's

Pale facade with arched windows, stucco ornament and a rusticated base above a brick wall with round openings. Tree shadows fall across part of the wall.

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