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The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre is launching “Managing Turbulence”, a project to help people cope with stress. What is it? Open training sessions for adults and an evening lecture series. I never thought I would find myself recommending anything with the word “training” in its title. But in our
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The park created by the architect Brodsky at the Veretyevo art estate needs help restocking its library, scattered across tiny pavilions over 7 hectares of wooded marsh. Anna Narinskaya, curator of the Veretyevo book project, has already written that many visitors to the park, for some reason, take the bookshelves
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A stag made of dung and sticks may nowadays turn out to be the altar of a forest deity, the centrepiece of a spa salon's lounge area and a showpiece at an art exhibition. This handsome fellow is the work of Ho Gui, an art collective that calls
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Several years ago Vogue Ukraine ran a piece on the celebrated Kyiv artist Nelli Isupova. The vivid, instantly recognisable works of this woman, who became one of the centres of cultural life in the Ukrainian capital and stood at the origins of the artistic destiny of Andriivsky Descent, can at
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René Block, an 80-year-old German gallerist and collector, has been appointed curator of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2022. Block opened his first exhibition 58 years ago and was in his day the youngest gallerist in Germany, and it is particularly gratifying that even now
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It is very beautiful! The online presentation of the Ulyana Sergeenko Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2022 collection can be viewed on the website of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode. I remind you that the House of Ulyana Sergeenko is the only Russian fashion house to
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An allegorical portrait of Dante, painted in 1532‒1533 by the Medici court artist Agnolo Bronzino, will be on show in Moscow at the Voznesensky Centre until 20 February, in an exhibition curated by the Pushkin Museum's chief research fellow Victoria Markova. The painting, which was considered lost
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The Queen's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, home to works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Claude (Gellée) and Van Dyck, will show canvases by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few women artists of her time to win renown. The Italian painter enjoyed the patronage of Charles I,
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Why does everything most beautiful happen just before New Year? The exhibition “Beauty and Style. A History of Fashion Photography. From the Collection of the Still Art Foundation” at the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Hermitage Museum. It presents the photographers’ own prints by Erwin Blumenfeld, Horst P.
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In March a retrospective of Lydia Masterkova (1927–2008) will open, also showing works by Yefrosinya Yermilova-Platova and Eva Levina-Rozengolts. In the photograph by Igor Palmin: Masterkova during preparations for an exhibition in the Izmailovo forest park in 1974. At the same time the museum will present new
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Lest you get lost among portraits of theatrical figures, composers, playwrights and drawings by masters of the twentieth century no less famous, and sometimes more so, add to your collection of masterpieces, for the reproductions of the Arbat Courtyard are already forlorn on the refrigerator door. A Couple in White