Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art has opened the exhibition "Writing in Fire. The Art of Enamel", a large-scale project devoted to one of the most difficult and beautiful branches of the decorative arts. The display brings together masterpieces of the enameller's art from
Art · Madrid · Museums
Jusepe de Ribera's Euclid astonishes with depth of character. Before us is no abstract sage of antiquity but a living man, immersed in the world of thought. The wrinkles on his face, the heavy gaze, the strong hands and, incidentally, a shirt that is rather more in the
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Science · Palaeontology · Nature
540-Million-Year-Old Microfossils from Brazil, Long Regarded by Palaeontologists as Traces of the Movement of the Earliest Worm-Like Animals or Meiofauna, Turn Out to Be Fossilised Colonies of Bacteria and Algae. The discovery casts doubt on the hypothesis that complex, mobile animals were widely active before the
Cinema · People · Nature
The American actress Tippi Hedren, famed for Hitchcock's The Birds, and her "domestic" big cats. Tippi, whose full name is Natalie, is the mother of the actress Melanie Griffith and the grandmother of Dakota Johnson. In 1969, with her second husband, Noel Marshall, she made the
In the Press · Interviews · Cinema · Books · Society
Prohibitions alone will not do. The best defence is attack. A humanitarian intervention must be followed by a clever humanitarian response. The series «GDR» and «Dear Willy» have already appeared, but that is clearly not enough. Nor do these series touch on our own times. That is why I am
Observations · Society · Humour
Friends, painting even the largest swimming pool in the world cannot possibly cost 13 million dollars. Unless it is the pool of some middling river with its tributaries. Officials, for all that, are the same the world over. And the most dreadful thing is that the social order which allows
Archive · Art · Moscow · Pop Culture
Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov", orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in the version of Leonid Baratov, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. Alexander Pirogov as Boris, Bronislava Zlatogorova as Fyodor, Nikandr Khanayev as Shuisky, Alexander Peregudov as the boyar Khrushchov. Photo by Semyon Mishin-
Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
The French National Assembly has unanimously passed a law on the restitution of cultural artefacts removed from former colonies between 1815 and 1972. The year 1815 is that of the Congress of Vienna, after which France returned what Napoleon had plundered across Europe. The year 1972 is the date of
Art · Society · Reportage
🇮🇱 The backstory to the jury's April resignation has come to light. On the eve of it, Belu-Simion Fainaru, artist and commissioner of the Israeli pavilion, sent the foundation a legal notice, construing the jury's declaration as antisemitism and discrimination on grounds of nationality. In other
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Portraits of the First Twelve Caesars, and of 63 of Their Wives and Relatives, Engraved from Ancient Coins; Together with Their Lives and Deeds, Gathered from Various Authors. Primorum Caesarum et LXIII Ipsorum Uxorum et Parentum, by Levinus Hulsius. A rare Renaissance numismatic book, published in 1597 and 1599. It