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Exhibition of architect Hans Hollein at Gallerie 4 of the Centre Pompidou until June

The Centre Pompidou has closed, but there is still a reason, and a chance, to visit it. Gallerie 4, which remains open until June, is currently hosting an exhibition of the architect and conceptual artist Hans Hollein (1934–2014), who worked in extreme design and architecture for more than fifty

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Ulyana Sergeyenko Continues to Delight with Her Devotion Not Only to the Hollywood Films of the Golden Age but to Refined Masterpieces of World Art

Ulyana Sergeyenko continues to delight with her devotion not only to the Hollywood films of the golden age but to refined masterpieces of world art. This time, the sketches for a couture collection inspired by old circus acts, cabaret divas and the dance shows of the early twentieth century reveal

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Saint Francis Preaching to the Birds

Two panels of a Crucifixion triptych, circa 1374

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About 2,000 works from the museum will go to French and foreign museums

Today one of the finest museums of modern art, the Centre Pompidou, closes for five years of renovation. Around 2,000 works of art will be dispatched to other French and foreign museums. Part of the museum's collection can be seen quite soon, for instance, at the Grand

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The Holy Trinity from the Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours of the Earl of Ormond

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Angels Help Human Souls Ascend to Paradise

"The Ascent of the Blessed", Hieronymus Bosch, 1505-1515, from the cycle "The Blessed and the Damned"

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Let Us Preserve Our Monuments of Culture

Yefim Semyonovich Tsvik, 1967

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Henri Cartier-Bresson's Famous Photograph of Young People Gazing at a Ceiling Was Taken Not in the Louvre but in the Rotunda of the American Capitol in 1957

Henri Cartier-Bresson's famous photograph of young people gazing at a ceiling was taken not in the Louvre but in the Rotunda of the American Capitol in 1957. The young people are looking not merely at a ceiling but at one of the most beautiful domes in the

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Sergey Bocharov's portrait of the Night Witches and the 46th Guards Regiment's combat record

Group Portrait of the Heroine Airwomen of the 46th Guards Taman Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, Order of the Red Banner and Order of Suvorov, by Sergey Bocharov, 1985. The painting was acquired by the Central House of Aviation and Cosmonautics of DOSAAF, where it is on display to this day.

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Hansken and other known elephants in Europe, and doubts over six elephants in Mantua

A festive float drawn by three pairs of elephants at Mantua, during the celebrations in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1640. Most probably we are looking at a diverting fantasy, for elephants in the Europe of that age could be counted on the fingers of one hand. To

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In the Netherlands, local police, with the help of art detective Arthur Brand, have found Pieter Brueghel the Younger's painting "Woman Carrying Coals", stolen from the National Museum in Gdańsk half a century ago. At present the Polish authorities…

During the theft in 1974 the criminal replaced the original with a reproduction, and also made off with a sketch by Anthony van Dyck. According to Brand, the trail of the painting was first picked up by a reporter for the Dutch magazine Vind, who spotted it at an exhibition

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Yesterday the West Wing of the New Tretyakov opened "Experiments in Contemplation", an exhibition by Valery Yurlov, the living patriarch of Soviet nonconformism

Yesterday the West Wing of the New Tretyakov opened "Experiments in Contemplation", an exhibition by Valery Yurlov, the living patriarch of Soviet nonconformism. The works on show include, for instance, pieces from 1957 and 1958. The retrospective of Yurlov's career spans more than 70 years. But