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A touching, warm exhibition has opened at the Space 1618 gallery in Staromonetny Lane: Saule Madiyeva presents a series of conceptual works in felt. On the one hand, the artist turns to traditional techniques and uses the favourite material of the nomadic world; on the other, she attempts a personal,
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Graffiti on a Wall as a Factor in Investment Appeal? In Bristol, England, a building has been put up for sale bearing a Banksy graffito, left on the wall of a former clinic in 2006. The work is called “Well Hung Lover”. The property is valued at $900,000, and
Coming Up · Observations · Society
It cannot but please that with each passing year cultural initiatives receive ever more institutional support, and that membership of specialist communities is becoming prestigious among the young. This year the annual Russian Creative Awards, to be held tomorrow, has added a special category for young figures in culture, the
Cinema · Museums · Mores
The travelling dentist's carriage at the National Automobile Museum in Compiègne, France, recalls the wagon in which the dentist Dr King Schultz travelled in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" This mobile dental surgery belonged to Sorino, the inventor of galvanic water, that is, to all
Observations · Mores
Remember the expression "to land like a hen in the plucking"? It is a mangled pronunciation of the winged phrase "to land like a hen in the ощип", where the ощип (oshchip) is the plucking of feathers from a chicken carcass.
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Sympathy for the sorrows of a once great lady. Cartoon by Tom Merry. 28 November 1891 Old Mother Britannia, impoverished by liberal reforms, and her Lion beg for alms against the backdrop of a ruined Palace of Westminster
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Yves Breyer: fine by me
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Federation Council approves law on leasing cultural heritage sites under concession agreements. The law is intended to attract more private investment for the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage sites. Concessionaires will be obliged to carry out restoration and conservation work on such sites, observing the requirements of the norms
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A new version of "The Three Musketeers" will appear in 2025, with women as the musketeers and d'Artagnan. The synopsis runs thus: when Sarah, a young girl on the run, discovers that the three musketeers protecting the Queen of France are in fact women, she decides
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A replica of Noah's Ark is for sale in the Netherlands. The price is 350,000 euros.