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Swimming Lesson, Vienna, 1911
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A Paris footbridge over the Canal Saint-Martin is renamed after Jane Birkin
Singer Lou Doillon, youngest daughter of Jane Birkin, told an anecdote from life at the opening of a bridge named in honour of the actress:. My son asked me: is your mother still dead? I answered him: yes, but today she is becoming a bridge. One hopes it was the
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The Soyuzmultfilm studio has officially confirmed that Vladimir Putin will appear in a future episode of the series "Prostokvashino"
Art · Observations · New York
Christie’s and Sotheby’s forecast annual sales of $6.2 billion and $7 billion
Good Lord, how tired one is of Rothko and Klimt. The auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s have tallied up the year. Christie’s projected sales came to $6.2 billion, almost 7% more than last year. After a quiet first half, sales picked up considerably in the autumn.
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Why do women so rarely wear their hair in the style of the 1920s nowadays?
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The Entombment
The Entombment. Fresco by Fra Angelico, painted in 1441 in the Convent of San Marco A dream for 2026: to visit Florence once more and see this beauty
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Etruscan funerary urn of the 4th century BC and the loss of its 19th-century additions
Etruscan Art: Enigmatic and Alluring. In this case we are dealing with a monument described in the books: a funerary urn of the early 4th century BC bearing the image of the spirit of the deceased and of a guardian spirit. As you can see, the present state of the
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This is roughly how I picture the passengers of comet 3I/ATLAS
Everyone has suddenly stopped talking about it, and yet it is right on the approach to our planet
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ARTnews has compiled a list of the most talked-about archaeological discoveries of 2025:
Beneath the Palace of Westminster, flint tools of the Mesolithic and Neolithic eras, about 6,000 years old, have been found, together with artefacts dating from the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages In Shaanxi Province in China, a network of 573 ancient stone fortifications has been found, the earliest
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Gorky, Brodsky and Bunin had no higher education but became writers
The Russian Ministry of Labour Has Approved a Professional Standard for “Writer”, to Take Effect on 1 September 2026. One of its provisions states that a writer is a person with a higher education. No, Maxim Gorky did not have a higher education. He tried to enter Kazan University, but
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