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Marina Loshak said many interesting things in a recent interview. But as someone who has been inseparably bound up with museums for almost ten years, and who has been collecting art for about as long, and a rather original, non-standard collection at that, I found the following passage especially
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Saint Martin and the Beggar. El Greco, 1597-1599. The episode of the cloak and the beggar is the best known in the life of Saint Martin. The Serbian bishop Nikolai Velimirovich gives the following version: Martin was born to pagan parents in the Pannonian town of Sabaria in the
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A Mark Rothko painting in IKEA's corporate colours, sold for $32.5 million, has become the fourth most expensive Western work of art ever sold in Asia, at least. Which means that this year some very, very rich person will be able to claim a rather substantial tax
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What a Longing for a Plum! And also for forcing oneself to believe that this picture of a basket of plums was painted in 1629 by the French artist Louise Moillon! Louise Moillon won renown for her exact still lifes. In the course of her life she produced only some
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Lotte Laserstein painted "Evening over Potsdam" in 1930, in response to the Nazi Party winning 18% of the vote at the elections. When these people came to power, Lotte, the first woman admitted to the Berlin Academy of Arts and a graduate with distinction, was persecuted as a
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The Jewish Museum, housed in the Constructivist building of the Bakhmetevsky Garage, has opened the first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years, "Lyuba, Lyubochka. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova. 1889–1924". The exhibition presents more than 280 works, many of them shown for the first time. It offers
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Wrapped Oranges. William Joseph McCloskey
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An allegory of the Church as a ship, which provokes rejection and hostility from the people on the shore. The ship is filled with saints. The mast is the cross of Jesus Christ, crowned with the nest of a pelican feeding its young with its own blood. On the keel
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“Reigning Queens” in the pop art style. In the Netherlands, at Het Loo Palace, a series of portraits of women on the throne, created by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s, has been put on show. At that time four queens headed monarchies: Elizabeth, the United Kingdom; Beatrix, the Netherlands;
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Photograph from the exhibition "Andy Warhol's Queens", which includes a series of portraits of reigning queens
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The final week of the remarkable exhibition "Faith in Yermolayeva" is under way at Galeev Gallery. It is not merely a weighty event from the curatorial point of view, but also an important account of Vera Yermolayeva (1893-1937), whose name, though little known, has become one of