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The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art Opens the Exhibition "Writing in Fire"

The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art has opened the exhibition "Writing in Fire. The Art of Enamel", a large-scale project devoted to one of the most difficult and beautiful branches of the decorative arts. The display brings together masterpieces of the enameller's art from

Art · Madrid · Museums

Ribera's Euclid astonishes with depth of character

Jusepe de Ribera's Euclid astonishes with depth of character. Before us is no abstract sage of antiquity but a living man, immersed in the world of thought. The wrinkles on his face, the heavy gaze, the strong hands and, incidentally, a shirt that is rather more in the

Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris

French Parliament unanimously passes law on restitution of colonial artefacts

The French National Assembly has unanimously passed a law on the restitution of cultural artefacts removed from former colonies between 1815 and 1972. The year 1815 is that of the Congress of Vienna, after which France returned what Napoleon had plundered across Europe. The year 1972 is the date of

Archaeology · Museums

A walker finds a Scandinavian gold fitting of the Migration Period on the ground

In south-western Norway a tourist accidentally picked up a gold mount from a sword scabbard of the first half of the sixth century. Not a treasure hunter, not an illicit digger, not an amateur archaeologist, but simply a walker found a badly worn little piece of gold lying on

Archaeology · Archive · The East · Museums · Science

The National Museum of Denmark has held a collection of some five-thousand-year-old clay tablets from Mesopotamia and Syria in storage for about a hundred years

The National Museum of Denmark has held a collection of some five-thousand-year-old clay tablets from Mesopotamia and Syria in storage for about a hundred years. Since the material is cuneiform, nobody took the tablets seriously. Until the Hidden Treasures project of the University of Copenhagen and the

The East · London · Museums · Society

Museum changes description of Hyksos origin after letter from UK Lawyers for Israel

British Museum Changes Captions Mentioning Palestine. On a panel about the Hyksos people of the 17th–16th centuries BC, the wording Palestinian descent has been replaced with Canaanite descent, and similar amendments have been made in the gallery of Egyptian sculpture. The changes followed a letter from the British lobby

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“Oh, how I feel the accumulated burden of poisoned nights and bitter-sweet days!” wrote Annensky in “The Longing to Return” in 1909, and ever since the burden has gone on accumulating, though the vessels in which it is customarily kept keep changing

“Oh, how I feel the accumulated burden of poisoned nights and bitter-sweet days!” wrote Annensky in “The Longing to Return” in 1909, and ever since the burden has gone on accumulating, though the vessels in which it is customarily kept keep changing. This week our rubric on where to

Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums

Alexander I continued the war against Napoleon in Europe despite Kutuzov's advice

Frederick William III, King of Prussia, with his sons thanks Moscow for the salvation of his state. Nikolay Matveyev, 1896, Tretyakov Gallery. The thanks are for the War of the Sixth Coalition of 1813-1814, and specifically for the fact that Russia did not stop after driving Napoleon from its

Archaeology · Faith · The East · Museums · Heritage

In 1625, in the environs of Xi'an, the ancient capital of Tang China, Jesuit monks discovered beneath creepers and a layer of earth a stone stele almost three metres high, bearing a text in Chinese with Syriac insertions

In 1625, in the environs of Xi'an, the ancient capital of Tang China, Jesuit monks discovered beneath creepers and a layer of earth a stone stele almost three metres high, bearing a text in Chinese with Syriac insertions. The stele is dated to 781. The inscription described the

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April's main publications on “Three Sisters”, the Shroud of Turin, Losev and Oxyrhynchus

From the famous Prigov: “Just stepped out of the bath, and already I remember nothing.” A month is built much the same way. So let me propose recalling the main things from April's publications in the digest. 🎭 At the Taganka Theatre, Alexander Zolotovitsky has staged “Three Sisters”, in

Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums

Five exhibitions of coins and medals in museums this week

Small-scale plastic art is seldom the star of a museum display. Yet for how much these works can tell us about the history and culture of a country, few things can compare. This week's recommendations are devoted to exhibitions of coins and medals that deserve particular attention,

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