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Jo Vickery on the results of 2024 in the Russian art market in London
“For three years now London has held no Russian sale, the famous auction that had existed in one form or another since the late 1980s. It was a golden age: the descendants of Russian émigrés and celebrities such as Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, or Prince and Princess Michael of
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Jamie recreates a frame from the shower scene in “Psycho”, shot over a week in 70 takes
Wow, I had no idea that Jamie Lee Curtis is the daughter of Janet Leigh, the actress from "Psycho", and Tony Curtis, the actor from "Some Like It Hot" In this photograph Jamie poses in imitation of the shot from the shower scene in "Psycho&
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Since we are speaking of luxurious interiors today, here is another, in Ulyana Sergeenko's new "Orient Express" boutique
Since we are speaking of luxurious interiors today, here is another, in Ulyana Sergeenko's new "Orient Express" boutique. There is a great deal of polish and lacquered surface, magnificent work with veneer, combined with generous draping in velvet and vintage lighting: Murano chandeliers and vintage Art
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Table setting with a Le Train Bleu plate
Architecture · Heritage · Mores · Paris
The Le Train Bleu restaurant at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, a historic monument
The popular French restaurant Le Train Bleu, at the Gare de Lyon in Paris, is officially classed as a historic monument. The refined establishment takes its name from the famous luxury passenger train that ran to the French Riviera. But at the outset it was simply a buffet, the lavish
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Talleyrand's childhood injury, which sent him to seminary instead of military service
The Shoes of the Devil upon Two Sticks, and Louis-Philippe Supporting a Barely Upright Talleyrand. As you can see, old Talleyrand, author of the remark "Whole nations would be horrified if they knew what petty men rule over them", is wearing the orthopaedic footwear of his age.
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The Mariinsky Theatre to stage Wagner's “Ring of the Nibelung” at the Bolshoi Theatre in March
In March the Mariinsky Theatre will give its most ambitious tour in recent years on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. As part of a festival of the operas of Richard Wagner, Valery Gergiev and the company will twice present updated productions of the tetralogy The Ring of the
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Kate Bush in a 1979 Photograph by Claude Vanheye and the Story of Wilhelm Reich
Kate Bush, photographed by the Dutch photographer Claude Vanheye in a car park in Amsterdam in 1979. The crocodile is not real. I know nothing about Kate Bush, except that she is a singer and in her day made, together with Terry Gilliam and some celebrated actors, a video for
Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage
About 200 Iron Age tombs found during restoration of a building in Trento, Italy
In Trento, Italy, a large Iron Age burial ground with some 200 tombs has been found during the restoration of a historic building. The burials survived thanks to ancient floods, which "sealed" the site for 2,500 years. The tombs contained cremated remains, as well as objects such
Archaeology · The East · Museums · Heritage
Cleveland Museum of Art to return bronze statue of Marcus Aurelius from Bubon to Turkey
A bronze statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, held by the Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), is to be returned to Turkey after years of scholarly and legal inquiry. The statue, dated to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD, was illegally removed from the ancient city of Bubon in the
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Near Oryol, at the Turgenev Museum-Reserve Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the exhibition "Invisible Threads
Near Oryol, at the Turgenev Museum-Reserve Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the exhibition "Invisible Threads. Christian and Historical Subjects in the Work of Russian Artists" is open until 30 March. A rare opportunity to see masterpieces of Russian art in regional museum halls. The exhibition presents works by Repin, Vasnetsov,