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“I hate flowers
“I hate flowers. I paint them because they are cheaper than models and they don’t move,” - Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), the first American modernist woman artist
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Napoleon at the sacking of the Tuileries on 10 August 1792 in Maurice Réalier-Dumas's painting
Napoleon during the sacking of the Tuileries on 10 August 1792. Painting by Maurice Réalier-Dumas. In time Napoleon would come to be ashamed of the horrors he witnessed and took part in. From the wall, Louis XVI gazes down at the then lieutenant Buonaparte, in a recent portrait of
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A small white dog in a wicker pram in a 1980 painting by Jamie Wyeth
What a sweet little dog! She looks just like her mistress! Jamie Wyeth, 1980
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Do not tell me you have ever seen a more bewitchingly frail image of a writer in infancy than this engraving, "The Birth of Victor Hugo", of 1881, from the collections of the municipal library of Besançon, where the future classic of world…
Do not tell me you have ever seen a more bewitchingly frail image of a writer in infancy than this engraving, "The Birth of Victor Hugo", of 1881, from the collections of the municipal library of Besançon, where the future classic of world literature came into the world
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Very young Yevgeny Korenev (played 1927-1952, dates of life unknown to me), Dmitry Kamernitsky (1897-1972) and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858-1943) in the roles of warriors
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Stanislavski House Museum opens “Lessons of VKHUTEMAS” exhibition with works by Ariadna Arendt
The Museum of the Moscow Art Theatre continues its parade of VKhUTEMAS exhibitions. At the Stanislavsky House-Museum in Leontyevsky Lane, "Lessons of VKhUTEMAS" opened today. The focus is on the work of VKhUTEMAS graduates Ariadna Arendt and her first and second husbands, Meer Aizenshtadt and Anatoly Grigoryev.
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The blazar fair announces an open call for artists and gallerists for September
The blazar young contemporary art fair, where we shopped so merrily last autumn, announces an open call for artists and gallerists for September. It is a genuinely good opportunity for emerging creators to make themselves known, meet the public, and find a gallery and an audience of their own. Details
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Madly glad to see the dearest Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova in good health today
Madly glad was I to see the dearest Francisco Infante and Nonna Goryunova in good health today. Charming people, artists who outran their time, and such old-world good souls. It was said that only friends would attend the opening of the legendary pair's new exhibition at the
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Plaster ghosts by Jakub Hadrava revive an abandoned church in the Czech village of Lukava
At one time I was surprised by the large number of abandoned churches in the Czech Republic. One fourteenth-century church, 200 km from Prague, had stood empty since 1968, when its roof collapsed and people were injured. That lasted until a young artist from the capital, Jakub Hadrava, took
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There is much talk about this portrait of Alexei Tolstoy by Pyotr Konchalovsky: about the accents the artist has placed, about the subtext, about Tolstoy's reaction to the still life that had sprung up around him, whether it is mockery and derision or rev
There is much talk about this portrait of Alexei Tolstoy by Pyotr Konchalovsky: about the accents the artist has placed, about the subtext, about Tolstoy's reaction to the still life that had sprung up around him, whether it is mockery and derision or reverence, whether it is proper
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Pavel Pepperstein’s exhibition “Visions of Stars” on three floors of the Ekaterina Foundation
I went to Pavel Pepperstein's exhibition "Visions of Stars" at the Ekaterina Foundation. I must say it has been a long time since an exhibition project pleased me so thoroughly from beginning to end. One would think that Pepperstein is always highly recognisable and even somewhat
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