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Exhibition on the dark side of the Thaw in visual art, from Sveshnikov to Prokuratova
The Thaw, one of the great milestones of our twentieth-century culture, had its shadow side too, and that is the canvas of the exhibition "The Dark Thaw" at the Voznesensky Centre. What are these dark places? Little-known art that stayed in the shade. Names that never
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“The Angel of the Chronicles” (The Recording Angel): William Blake's illustration to the Divine Comedy, 1827
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Paris Jetem
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Last Night at the Vatican
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Yet Another Day of Disapproval of Skyscrapers in Particular and of Modern Architecture in General
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Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich as Onegin and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna as Tatyana in a palace production of Eugene Onegin, 1890s
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French Author Vincent Delacroix's Book on Illegal Migrants, "The Little Boat", Longlisted for the International Booker Prize for Literature
French author Vincent Delacroix's book on illegal migrants, "The Little Boat", has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize for Literature. Vincent Delacroix, winner of the Académie Française's Grand Prix du Roman in 2009, examines the tragic deaths of illegal migrants who try to
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Pope Francis shows signs of improvement, but prognosis remains cautious on the thirteenth day of hospitalisation
This is how Pope Francis looked at the general audience in the Vatican on 12 February 2025, two days before his hospitalisation. Although the Pope's condition is reported to be showing signs of improvement, Vatican officials have stressed that "the prognosis remains guarded", as his hospitalisation
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Since there are no significant political forces opposing the transformation of our world into a universal marketplace, the conflict of our time is a struggle to preserve one's humanity in an ever more artificial world
Julius Evola
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Émile Lévy’s painting “The Death of Orpheus”, painted in 1866
"Orpheus is dead!" "What?" "Wake up, I'm telling you" The Death of Orpheus. Émile Lévy, 1866
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A farmer ploughs a field with oxen beside the ruins of an ancient temple
A farmer ploughs his field beside the 1st-century Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi, Turkey, 1970. And no tourists disturb his contemplation of this magnificence