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British architect Sarah Wigglesworth shows what the Christmas atmosphere looks like from an architectural point of view
Museums · Observations · Heritage · Paris · Humour
Protective Makrolon layer installed on Apollo Gallery window at the Louvre
Probably the most long-suffering window opening in the world. Yesterday the notorious window of the Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre was at last fitted with a protective layer of Makrolon, a polycarbonate of exceptional strength with fire-resistant properties. Not yet bulletproof glass, but already a very
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"What Is This, Madame?" "It Is Called 'Art'"
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16 December: the Feast of the Housing Saviour
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage
The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val Ceases to Organise Exhibitions
Following a recent expert appraisal, the condition of the building has been judged unsatisfactory. The museum's director, Yelena Pronicheva, expressed the hope of beginning work on a renovation project for the New Tretyakov Gallery next year. What on earth? It's a perfectly good building, Soviet quality
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Or at Least Magic Realism
Art · Moscow · Museums
The Magnificent Léon Bakst from the Russian Museum Collection at the GES-2 Exhibition
One of the key works of the Silver Age artist Léon Bakst, a meditation on the fate of the classical heritage amid the social and political catastrophes of the early twentieth century. Painted after the Russo-Japanese War and the revolution of 1905-1907, the picture gave expression to the
Observations · Mores · Paris · People
I had never before met such an original definition
Coco Chanel was dubbed a "horizontal collaborator" from the Ritz, a hint at her long liaison with Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage, a German lawyer and NSDAP official who was also, in his spare time, a secret agent and special representative attached to the Reich Ministry of Propaganda.
Archive · Cinema · Pop Culture
Photograph of Natalie aged 13 and Jean aged 46, born in 1948
Natalie Portman and Jean Reno on the set of Léon in 1994. Natalie is 13 here, Jean is 46; it turns out he was born in 1948
Art · Books · Observations · Humour
I wrote that I was impressed to hear Wagner performed by Currentzis's orchestra; a music critic replied: a mediocre performance of a mediocre arrangement
I recommended Smirnov von Rauch's book "The Board of Dionysius" to my book club, and my fellow members say: a dreadful book, Alexandr, why did you choose it? I find no answers; such, it seems, is my taste 😭 The photograph shows a portrait of Pushkin by
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