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Watching Trump demolish part of the White House to build a vast ballroom of some 8,000 square metres, I think that America is approaching a perfect balance of the outer and the inner, a complete accord of form and idea

Watching Trump demolish part of the White House to build a vast ballroom of some 8,000 square metres, I think that America is approaching a perfect balance of the outer and the inner, a complete accord of form and idea. But the age of plenty is drawing to a

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Five exhibitions for October and November, from Moscow nonconformists to early photography

A new selection of Moscow exhibitions that I recommend visiting this week:. 📌 Group exhibition “Moscow Nonconformists. In Search of Identity” at Arts Square Gallery, until 26 October 📌 24 October: opening of an exhibition from Polina Bondareva's private collection in the new space masters:dom on Sofiyskaya Embankment 📌 Collective

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Or, as the critics put it, the work turns to the theme of the authenticity of the gesture and the contingency of form, the artist calls into question the boundaries between creator and observer, a subversion of the academic tradition

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The Gioconda Is Finished

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Louvre security footage published:

Colour lithograph of Visigothic votive crowns and crosses from Guarrazar, with a large suspended crown with lettered pendants at the centre.

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Theft of the Guarrazar treasure from the Royal Armoury in Madrid on 4 April 1921

On 4 April 1921 the legendary Guarrazar treasures of the Visigothic hoard, including the crown of Suintila presented to Queen Isabella II, were stolen from the Royal Armoury of the Royal Palace in Madrid. The jewels were never found

Collage of newspaper clippings about the theft of the Irish jewels from Dublin Castle, with drawings of the insignia of the Order of St Patrick.

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Theft of the Irish Crown Jewels from Dublin Castle discovered on 6 July 1907

On 6 July 1907 it was discovered that the Irish Crown Jewels, kept in a safe at Dublin Castle, had been stolen. Among the items taken were the insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick, an elite British chivalric order based in Ireland. The jewels were never found

NB! · Monarchies · Humour

Come on, lads, own up nicely: why did you take the crown off?

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In the robbed Galerie d'Apollon, single, non-armoured glazing units in plain wooden frames have been installed

In the robbed Galerie d'Apollon, single, non-armoured glazing units in plain wooden frames have been installed. The maximum of protection is an "anti-vandal" film on the panes

Observations · Society · Humour

Emmanuel Macron among France's peacetime rulers, from Grévy to Hollande

The Macron Years in Two Pictures. It has been worse: in the Hundred Years' War, during the Wars of Religion, under the Jacobin Terror, in the First World War and under German occupation. But for peacetime, Emmanuel Macron is undoubtedly one of the worst rulers of France. Off the

NB! · Art · Pop Culture · Humour

Alarm: a statuette of 1925 is impersonating Renata Litvinova

Gold brooch shaped like a crowned eagle, with wings set with small rubies, a large red heart-shaped stone, a sceptre, an orb and a hanging pearl, displayed in a case.

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