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Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Epistle to the Romans, 7:24 The Apostle laments and complains of the flesh, calling the earthly and voluptuous body a body of death, since it suffers within itself under the law of sin. But
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⚡️Where to begin planning your cultural leisure for the first half of the year? With the regular fixtures, of course. In April, from the 23rd to the 26th, Nizhny Novgorod will once again host the Intervals Festival, the international media art festival: the first of its kind in Russia, running
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By night Hero would light a fire on her tower so that her beloved could swim the strait and meet her. But one night the wind put out the flame, and Leander drowned. Seeing Leander's body, Hero threw herself from her tower into the sea. Peter Paul Rubens,
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The Face Has Slipped. An installation by the British artist and sculptor Alex Chinneck in the town of Margate, in the county of Kent, Great Britain. The project is a visual illusion in which the façade of a brick house appears to be "sliding" downwards and partly detaching
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Every human being, every member of the human family, bears responsibility for the peace of the whole world. No one has the right to cast off the lofty and beautiful duty of creating good. No one has the right to burn Joan of Arc. Who has been given the right
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Museums
Where to go: a selection of Moscow exhibitions worth visiting this week. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "Krasnopevtsev. The Balance of the Unequal" at the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art on Maroseika, until 1 February 📌 The exhibition "New Gothic" at the HSE ART GALLERY in the
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You called my likeness out of stone, You breathed God's fire into it. My double, He is alien to me, other and yet alike. Here he stands, clear and stern, And his featurelessness frightens me: Some god Revealed in the primordial stone. Literal translation Maximilian Voloshin, 1911
Archive · Architecture · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. To mark the centenary, the exhibition Paris 1925 has opened at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in the Trocadéro, in
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The Triumphal Dance of Pallas Athena. Carlo Sarrabezolles, 1925. Paris, National Museum of French Monuments
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The Louvre and the National Galleries of Scotland lent Chardin's still lifes, sung by Diderot, for Dior's summer collection show in June 2025. Two paintings by one of the greatest realist artists of the 18th century graced the debut show of Jonathan Anderson, the new creative