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The Sun King's collection of unique diamonds, lost in the nineteenth century, recreated as full-size models for an exhibition at L'Ecole Van Cleef in Paris in 2018. The blue stone is called the Hope
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🌆On 21 April the Art Moscow fair opens, in case anyone still has money left for art. 🧱From 21 April the Shchusev Museum of Architecture is showing the paintings of Nadezhda Krestinina 👑From 21 April to 5 July the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts continues its 25-year tradition
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European Commission threatens to strip Venice Biennale of $2.3 million grant unless it drops the Russian pavilion. In a letter of 10 April addressed to the Biennale's president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, the European Commission accused the organisers of breaching sanctions against Russia. The substance of the complaint: the
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🦖The solo exhibition by Rinat Volgami, "Wind", at Gallery 11.12 🌎Dani Pirogov's exhibition "Light Comes from Underground" at the Futuro gallery 🩺The contemporary art exhibition "Together" at Skolkovo 🏺The exhibition "Vladimir Salnikov and Nina Kotel. Two" at the Blar
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It was taken by Pyotr Ivanovich Vedenisov in Yalta in the 1910s, using the technology of the Lumière brothers. Pyotr Vedenisov graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1888, moved to Yalta and spent the rest of his life there as a pianist, local historian, meteorologist and amateur photographer with a
In the Press · The East · Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
"The Angel of History," wrote Benjamin, "has his face turned toward the past, but a storm is blowing from Paradise and propels him irresistibly into the future. What to us appears as a chain of events, to him is one single catastrophe." March turned out to
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📌 Exhibition “Legacy of an Era. Semyon Chuikov”: until 12 July, Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya The founder of Kyrgyz fine art: shepherds, mountain landscapes, “Daughter of Soviet Kyrgyzstan” and other canvases from the Tretyakov, the Russian Museum and the Kyrgyz National Museum. 📌 Exhibition “Beatrissa Sandomirskaya”: until 21 June, Pushkin State Museum
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Mores
In 1918 the Council of People's Commissars allotted Lenin and his family a flat and a study in the Senate Palace within the Kremlin. More precisely, the layout of the third floor in the south-western part of the palace, on the side facing Senate Square, where the
Archaeology · Art · Museums
One of the most famous masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art, found in the temple complex beside the pyramid of the pharaoh Khafre at Giza: the diorite statue of Khafre, dating from around 2570 BC. Diorite is one of the hardest stones. But the remarkable feature of this sculpture is its
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British artist Eileen Agar's straw hat with Schiaparelli gloves at the exhibition Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, which opened in March at the V&A. Agar attached to the straw hat a pair of gloves with painted red fingernails, as a reference to a Schiaparelli design of 1928.
Architecture · Art · Museums
Possibly one of the greatest works of the furniture-maker's art: the pair of sofas with sea deities, made in 1765 by John Linnell, one of the first English cabinet-makers. The sofas still occupy their place in the drawing room of Kedleston Hall in central England, in
Museums · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
A mother dinosaur watches over her brood. This is a photograph of the display at the Museum of the Rockies, where in the 1980s and 1990s the skeleton of Maiasaura stood beside a model of a dinosaur nest with growing hatchlings. The point is that just such a Maiasaura nest,