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The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts

The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. To mark the centenary, the exhibition Paris 1925 has opened at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in the Trocadéro, in

Bronze statuette of a woman warrior in a helmet with spear and shield, on a marble plinth in a museum display case.

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Carlo Sarrabezolles sculpture of 1925 at the National Museum of French Monuments in Paris

The Triumphal Dance of Pallas Athena. Carlo Sarrabezolles, 1925. Paris, National Museum of French Monuments

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The Work Desk from Rimas Tuminas's Study at the Vakhtangov Theatre

On the desk lies a note with a quotation from Romain Rolland: All the joy of life lies in creation; to create is to kill death

View through black balcony railings onto a snow-covered street lined with brick and pale high-rises; a skyscraper fades into the snowy haze.

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Snowfall over a city street between high-rise buildings, seen from a balcony

Old black-and-white photograph of a bespectacled man holding the head of a tiger figure frame with bared teeth.

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A craftsman works on the frame of a stuffed Amur tiger at a nature reserve, Primorsky Krai, 1960s

Mikhail Yakovlevich Volkov, Taxidermist of the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve. Most likely with the frame for a future figure of a tiger: the reserve is, after all, one of the world's principal centres for the study and protection of the Amur tiger Primorsky Krai, 1960s

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Leo Tolstoy’s 1851 diary on falling in love, an unneeded horse and rules for himself

25 January. Fell in love, or imagined that I had, was at a party and lost my head. Bought a horse that I have no need of whatsoever. Rules. Never offer any price for a thing one does not need. On entering a ball, at once ask someone to dance

Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Heritage

Wooden tower of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery survives at Kolomenskoye in Moscow

The tower of the monastery at which the first English expedition, led by Richard Chancellor, landed in the sixteenth century. The only wooden structure of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery to have survived to our day stands in Moscow, on the grounds of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve. The monastery, at the

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Poster for Sergei Bondarchuk's "War and Peace" with Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Prince Andrei, Pushkin Square, 1966

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The marriage of Maurice Goudeket and Colette, his 1941 arrest and his memoir

Colette with her third husband, the Jewish businessman Maurice Goudeket, in 1950, four years before her death. Maurice Goudeket entered the life of the French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in the early 1930s, when she was already a national celebrity. They met through mutual acquaintances from literary circles. At first

Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris

Paris police warned Louvre management about outdated security systems before the robbery

The string of absurd updates to the file on the disgraceful Louvre robbery seems destined never to end. New glaring details have come to light, but the chief detail remains unchanged: so far, we have not seen a single resignation. How about this? A month and a half before the

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Golden vase depicting winged bulls, found in a tomb at Marlik, in north-eastern Iran, that is, on the south-eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, in the territory of the ancient satrapy of Hyrcania

Golden vase depicting winged bulls, found in a tomb at Marlik, in north-eastern Iran, that is, on the south-eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, in the territory of the ancient satrapy of Hyrcania. 12th-10th centuries BC. National Museum of Iran, Tehran

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Cyberattack of 21 January 2026 halts online services at Dresden museums

The Dresden State Art Collections were hit by a cyberattack on 21 January 2026. As a result, online services have stopped working: the web shop, ticket sales and visitor services. The museums remain open, the security systems are functioning, and tickets purchased before the attack remain valid. The police and

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