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Crossword clues for the across entries, numbers 3 to 29

The Brilliant "Void Crossword" by Anton Olshvang, 1999. Across: 3. A gradual advance 8. Work without a contract 11. The part of a pencil that is not the lead 12. A simulation of good health 13. A superfluous plant in the house 14. An intention repeated many times

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Yesterday the West Wing of the New Tretyakov opened "Experiments in Contemplation", an exhibition by Valery Yurlov, the living patriarch of Soviet nonconformism

Yesterday the West Wing of the New Tretyakov opened "Experiments in Contemplation", an exhibition by Valery Yurlov, the living patriarch of Soviet nonconformism. The works on show include, for instance, pieces from 1957 and 1958. The retrospective of Yurlov's career spans more than 70 years. But

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Federico Fellini adjusts Marcello Mastroianni's hair on the set of 8½, 1963

Archive · Architecture · Faith · Paris

Cathedral without its spire, draped in mourning for the funeral of the Duke of Orléans

The oldest photograph of Notre-Dame de Paris is a seven-centimetre daguerreotype of 1842 by Marc-Antoine Gaudin. If you have noticed, the cathedral is captured without its famous spire: it was taken down in the eighteenth century, having grown badly decrepit over six hundred years. The spire was

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Something of interest about the Western powers and their tender concern for Eastern Europe and Christian civilisation: in the nineteenth century the Russian Empire could several times have wrested Constantinople from the Ottomans, but France and Great Bri

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Christie’s sale on 27 February raised $21.3 million, led by a work by Helen Frankenthaler

The total proceeds of Christie's "Post-War to Present" sale, held on 27 February, came to $21.3 million, reports artnews.com. The most expensive lot of the evening was Helen Frankenthaler's abstraction Concerto, dated 1982. The lot went under the hammer for $2.

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Silver medal of the Saint Petersburg merchants commemorating the accession of Alexander I

This silver medal was commissioned by the merchants of Saint Petersburg to commemorate the accession of Alexander I. It was struck in Prussia, at the Royal Mint in Berlin. The engraver was Abramson. On the obverse: Minerva, holding a pike in her left hand and in her right a shield

A painting on a white gallery wall: a large fragment of a face in black and grey tones, with a wide open eye and a slightly open mouth.

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A dialogue of arts between Natalia Turnova and Alexandre Cabanel

Natalia Turnova and Alexandre Cabanel: A Dialogue of the Arts

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Catherine Deneuve Turns Up at the César Awards in a Monkey-Fur Coat?

Catherine Deneuve turned up at the César Awards ceremony in a monkey-fur coat? So she did kill her husband in «The Brand New Testament» after all?

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Timothée Chalamet and Antoine Vollon's "A Piece of Butter"

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Woman with a Letter in London, photographed by Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1940

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Nataliya Turnova’s exhibition “Unceremonial Portrait” at the Multimedia Art Museum

Natalia Turnova at the Multimedia Art Museum. Let us begin by recalling the artist's biography, which I gleaned from some interview or other. A childhood in Kabul and in Myanmar. You see now where those bright, Eastern monochromes and colour combinations come from? She traced her first artistic

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