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Herzen was finishing "My Past and Thoughts" in London, and visiting compatriots scolded him for having long since left Russia and forgotten it too well. The émigré is always charged with forgetfulness, though it is usually the homeland that does the forgetting. This week, in the rubric of
Archaeology · Art · Books · Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Science · Society
“What is our life? A tale we shall not recall twice, once it has been told,” runs the thought from Byron’s “Don Juan”, and so at the end of every month we reassemble the key publications that can be reread and kept in memory. Archaeology and the origins of
Cinema · Books · Heritage · Paris
The French are to make a film about the Louvre robbery. The director is Romain Gavras, and the source is a book by three journalists from Le Parisien, Le Monde and Paris Match, entitled Main Basse sur le Louvre, or “A Hand on the Louvre”, published by Flammarion this week.
The East · Monarchies · Observations · Heritage · Society · Humour
The Fund for the Royal Private Collections commissioned an appraisal of roughly a thousand objects. Under suspicion are a golden amulet necklace and historical weapons from Indonesia, acquired in the colonial era. I can just picture how the Dutch East India Company would have laughed at so modest a discovery.
Museums · Observations · Heritage · Ethnography
I read that the museum of tiny Martha's Vineyard, off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, is returning to Hawaii a canoe, a pestle for pounding baked taro root, a grass skirt and a piece of tapa, the traditional unwoven cloth made from tree bark, which the indigenous peoples of
Faith · Art · Heritage
The Veiled Christ, 1753. In Italian the sculpture is known as “Cristo velato” The sculpture was to have been carved by Antonio Corradini, but after his death, when only a terracotta sketch remained, it was decided that the project would be completed by Giuseppe Sanmartino, who was 33 years old
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Know what solution they came up with? Since 2018, a group of artists has been painting murals across Rio with portraits of figures of Afro-Brazilian culture, each placed at a spot where the person in question once lived
Archaeology · Heritage · Science
The earliest iron production in the territory of Angola dates to the 5th to 8th centuries. Since 1974 the Ndalambiri rock shelter in Angola has been protected as a monument of national heritage, thanks to a painted frieze 60 metres long with almost 1,200 figures. A team led by
Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
Look how beautifully the exit of La Fourche metro station has been restored in Paris! Officials very rarely, but still occasionally, manage to discharge their duties properly; in this case they needed the direct participation of the residents of the neighbourhood, who proposed precisely this design in place of the
Heritage · Society
A deeply moving people's memorial at Ramsgate to the many "little ships" of Dunkirk, which took part in the evacuation of British and French troops in June 1940 and never returned. Among them were fishing boats, pleasure craft, small coastal cargo vessels, ferries and even private
Archaeology · Heritage · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
The 17th-century "Whalers' Cemetery" on Spitsbergen, by the Likneset station, has begun to thaw after 400 years. And now Norwegian archaeologists are examining knitted woollen stockings, finely woven woollen trousers, blue silk neckerchiefs, fragments of blue-striped linen shirts, caps and blankets found in remarkably well-
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Heritage · People
A new monument to Alexander Tairov and Alisa Koonen, founders of Moscow's legendary Kamerny Theatre, on Tverskoy Boulevard, where they staged upheavals and discoveries in world theatre. Today the Kamerny is called legendary because it has literally entered the textbooks and become part of the great heritage of