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Chanel kept Karl Lagerfeld's personal library intact after his death
Karl Lagerfeld's Art Library in Paris, on the 7th Floor of 7 Rue de Lille. Lagerfeld's personal library consists of tens of thousands of books, gathered and arranged by Karl himself. The library occupies a room beneath a large glass skylight. In the adjoining space was
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Leonardo da Vinci disapproves of our forgetting to congratulate him yesterday on his 572nd birthday
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Installation: a cotton-wool cloud over an ashtray, with ward models in the windows
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Exhibition “Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel” on Zoya Boguslavskaya at the Voznesensky Center
The exhibition "Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel" at the Voznesensky Centre is remarkably cohesive, although it embraces so many different incarnations of Zoya Borisovna: science, journalism, literature, civic engagement, art, all the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, the stories of the great figures who became part of her
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Zoya Boguslavskaya on the eve of her hundredth birthday with her son Leonid Boguslavsky at the opening of the exhibition "Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel" at the Voznesensky Centre
Zoya Boguslavskaya on the eve of her hundredth birthday with her son Leonid Boguslavsky at the opening of the exhibition "Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel" at the Voznesensky Centre, devoted to the creative and personal path of Zoya Borisovna
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Klimentovskaya Church in Zamoskvorechye with red walls and white columns
I am very fond of the Church of St Clement. Such a smartly dressed Roman lady, but in Zamoskvorechye
Architecture · Heritage · Mores · Paris
The proverb about the 13th arrondissement town hall in Paris and the history of the building
The French have a saying: to be married at the town hall of the 13th arrondissement. It means to live outside lawful wedlock. For until 1860 Paris had only 12 arrondissements. The 13th arrondissement appeared only in 1867, when construction of its town hall began. The building took 10 years
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Early realist paintings by Piet Mondrian, later a pioneer of abstraction
Both paintings are by Piet Mondrian. Yes, the pioneer of abstraction began as a realist painter
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Came to the Bookshop to Look at My Beloved Self
Art · Moscow · Museums
Erik Bulatov’s painting “Razrez” from the Tretyakov Gallery collection on show at MAMM
Cross-section. Erik Bulatov, 1965–66. Collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. On view at the Erik Bulatov exhibition at the MAMM
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