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Eighteen years ago, Miyoko Ihara, a graduate of the Nippon Institute of Photography, began photographing her grandmother Misao, who was grieving the death of her husband together with her extraordinary white cat named Fukumaru, and a whole photobook came out of it. The project ended 8 years ago, and what
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Vladimir Semyonovich Semyonov's collection is customarily spoken of as outstanding, and the man himself is revered not only as a politician, diplomat and scholar but as a great Soviet patron of the arts. Only in its day his collection drew no small amount of reproach and displeasure from
Art · Moscow · Museums · People
At the exhibition "Not Forever" in the New Tretyakov hangs a portrait of the diplomat Semenov with his wife and daughter by the artist Dmitry Zhilinsky. Oil on chipboard and gesso. My attention was caught by the pointedly rich apartment of a high-ranking official, with costly canvases
Architecture · Art · Cinema · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
As a native of Khamovniki, I find the name of the sculptor Alexander Burganov stirs mixed feelings in me: I recall his ungainly studio in the lanes off Prechistenka, but also, on the other hand, some of his remarkable works. Several of them adorn the ruined château of Lacoste in
Faith · Art · Humour
ps little Eve is sheer charm
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Dürer: That'll Do
The East · Art · Museums · New York · Paris
The press office of Malmaison reports that Jacques-Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St Bernard Pass has at long last returned to the native walls of the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Before that, the canvas was
Coming Up · Art
Listings for subscribers in Krasnodar Krai, neighbouring regions, and anyone planning to spend the warm autumn days well in the South of Russia. The Golubitskoe Art Foundation, on the grounds of the Golubitskoe Estate winery on the Taman Peninsula, invites you to Alisa Ioffe's exhibition "Taman Diary&
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Museums
One of the eight parts of the famous series of tapestries of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. The tapestry was made in 1466 in the millefleurs technique, popular in the 15th and 16th centuries, that is, "a thousand flowers", which make up the main artistic body of
NB! · Art · Cinema · Humour
Portrait of Dracula from Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film adaptation vs Dürer's portrait. Neither coincidence nor accident)