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Artist Maria Katkova and ink made from the inky cap mushroom
I came across an account by the artist Maria Katkova of how she once made several works using mushroom ink. What is that, you ask? The artist explains the recipe: if you pick an ink cap (a dung-loving one, to be precise), place it on a saucer and watch,
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Ilya Repin painted “Walk with Lanterns” at Abramtsevo on 1 September 1879
An unexpectedly Impressionist Repin! Ilya Repin painted A Walk with Lanterns in 1879, during his five years in Moscow, but the picture was created not in Moscow but at Abramtsevo. In the painting we see Elizaveta Grigoryevna Mamontova, the mistress of the Abramtsevo house, surrounded by children on an avenue
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How Twenty Years Have Slipped By Since the Wedding of Charles and Camilla
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Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was also a rather good artist
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was also a rather good artist. In this photograph of 1979, Leonov is at work on his painting “The Voskhod 2 Spacecraft”
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Who would have thought that Elizabeth Bowen could be so popular among wasps!
More precisely, among the sceliphron wasps, that is, the digging kind, which make out of clay such charming capsules, as though excavated in the land of Lilliput, and stuff them with little spiders and small insects. The growing wasp larva feeds on the provisions stored in these mud-walled cells,
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Design and contemporary art within the walls of a cultural centre housed in Milan's Palazzo Litta, where Napoleon once stayed
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White bouclé pouf on a terrazzo floor before old panelled doors
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Contemporary design objects in a palace hall with a painted ceiling
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Michel Henry’s “Barbarism” Republished Through the Efforts of Jean-Luc Marion
Evil is not the absence of good, but a force in its own right, full and substantial. "Barbarism" by Michel Henry (1922-2002). Henry is the greatest representative of French phenomenology, and sadly little known in present-day philosophical circles. Happily, however, he has very recently been reissued
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