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Finnish customs detained more than 200 Russian museum exhibits at Vaalimaa in 2022

Finnish customs conclude investigation into Russian cultural treasures detained in spring 2022. Finnish customs officers detained vehicles carrying works of art from Russian museums in April 2022. More than 200 exhibits were placed under arrest, among them items from the collections of the State Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery, and the

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Works by the contemporary Scandinavian artists Elmgreen and Dragset at the Musée d'Orsay: the works from the L'Addition series were created specially for the Orsay exhibition, in dialogue with its iconic sculptural decoration and the museum's permanent co

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Bologna in the Snow, Christophe Jacrot

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Alicia Martín's sculpture "Biografías", Casa de América, Madrid, 2005

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"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering

"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering. To many it seems that if there is innocent suffering, then there is no God, no divine providence. This is one of the arguments of

A portrait head made of a gnarled tree trunk with branches and ivy, wearing a woven straw cloak, with a lemon and an orange on a twig, against a dark background.

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s painting “Winter” of 1563 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

Winter, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563. Strange that there are no tangerines. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, 1784, Sir Henry Raeburn, National Galleries of Scotland

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A Snow Statue of Queen Victoria, Made in the Winter of 1890

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A Few Words on the Tretyakov Gallery's Exhibition Plans

The Tretyakov Gallery will open the year with a retrospective of the artist Francisco Infante, "The Formula of Infinity". In spring the New Tretyakov will host the exhibition "The Road to the East", a project about the Russian artists who worked in Central Asia in the

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“Repin. Details” exhibition for Ilya Repin’s 180th birthday opens at Academy of Arts Museum

The Academy of Arts Museum in Saint Petersburg has opened the exhibition "Repin. Details." The project marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of Ilya Repin and is devoted to the world of objects in the paintings of the great Russian artist, to his approach to work, and

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Yevgeny Rukhin archive studied at Tretyakov expert institute ahead of 2025 exhibition

At the Tretyakov Independent Research Expertise Centre, specialists are studying the archive of one of the most prominent representatives of non-conformism, Yevgeny Rukhin, the initiator of the famous Bulldozer Exhibition in Moscow. A year ago the artist Yan Ginzburg bought the archive from the heiress of the artist'

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