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Uninhabited geometric landscapes by Krüger, a painter of the New Leipzig School

It seems I have a new favourite contemporary artist: Markus Matthias Krüger, the German reformer of academic landscape painting, born in 1981 in Gardelegen. Krüger received his professional training at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig (the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst), under Professors Annette Schröder and Ulrich Hachulla.

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Pyotr Konchalovsky's painting is called "Begonias", but actually there is a gloxinia standing beside the begonias, and behind them, it seems, some alocasias

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Chagall's 1924 etching goes to Besançon museum after twenty years in French customs

Marc Chagall's 1924 etching L'Acrobate au violon spent twenty years in a French customs warehouse and has now been handed over to the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Besançon. In 2006 the French authorities stopped a lorry that was taking works of art out

Archaeology · Art · Science · Nature

That Magdalenian art is not a random jumble of animal figures but a specially ordered structure is, on the whole, not a new idea

That Magdalenian art is not a random jumble of animal figures but a specially ordered structure is, on the whole, not a new idea. André Leroi-Gourhan wrote about it in the 1960s. He arranged the Stone Age herd around the horse and the bison. The scheme was discussed from

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European Union confirms cancellation of long-term two-million grant to Venice Biennale Foundation over Russia's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale

The European Union has confirmed the cancellation of a long-term two-million grant to the Venice Biennale Foundation over Russia's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale. The pavilion, meanwhile, was open for only a few days. The European Commission had threatened to halt funding as early as

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We Are Tired of Using “You” to the Stars, We Have Learned the Sweetness of Roaring

The programme of the Futurists in two lines of Khlebnikov, written around 1908. We wish to say “thou” to the stars We are tired of saying “you” to the stars We have learned the sweetness of roaring Be fearsome, like Ostranitsa, Platov and Baklanov, Enough of your bowing To the

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Julio Escámez’s mural “Beginning and End” found under layers of paint in Chillán in 2021

In the Chilean City of Chillán, a Monumental Mural Painted Over on Pinochet's Orders Is Being Restored. Julio Escámez's mural "Beginning and End" was commissioned in 1969 for the ceremonial hall of the municipal building and took two years to complete. Its theme will

Painted double portrait of an elderly man and woman against a golden-green background, the woman wearing an ornate turquoise dress.

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Gala and Dalí in a 1983 double portrait by Sighard Gille

Gala and Dalí. Siegfried Gille, 1983 Just as I had pictured them

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In the early 2000s Eduard Steinberg, a representative of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a nonconformist, one of those whose art turned away from the Soviet norm towards pure geometry and metaphysics, built a house in Tarusa, which he made his

In the early 2000s Eduard Steinberg, a representative of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a nonconformist, one of those whose art turned away from the Soviet norm towards pure geometry and metaphysics, built a house in Tarusa, which he made his working studio, where he painted and

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Alice Mackler ceramics among over seventy works donated to the Zimmerli Art Museum

And they lived happily ever after! A very charming piece of ceramics by Alice Mackler, 2014. Mackler is a most interesting artist who began to win recognition as a sculptor only after the age of eighty, when a solo exhibition of her work was held in New York in 2013.

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The bureaucrat kindled the fire of indifference

A poster of the Perestroika era

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The Zeckendorf family of New York developers has filed suit against the heirs of the Weis collectors, claiming that a 1958 painting by Pierre Soulages, sold at Christie's last autumn for almost five million dollars, was stolen from their family…

The Zeckendorf family of New York developers has filed suit against the heirs of the Weis collectors, claiming that a 1958 painting by Pierre Soulages, sold at Christie's last autumn for almost five million dollars, was stolen from their family between 1977 and 1980. The canvas came from