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Remembering Goethe today, 188 years since his death. I do like the way that, in the portrait by his friend Johann Tischbein, who won his fame precisely through his portraits of Goethe, he has settled himself in the pose of an ancient Roman upon a ruined Egyptian obelisk, beneath an
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The heart of the exhibition, as Max Boxer himself puts it, is a special space that holds exclusively family things: the works of his father, Anatoly Boxer, his grandmother's personal belongings, furniture from his mother's flat (remember, I wrote of how she lamented the emptying of
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Eighteenth-century silver and table curiosities made from nuts. I wrote once about similar exhibits in the Armoury Chamber and in the Metropolitan Museum. But some people simply keep such things at home
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One of the best-known works in the collection: Konstantin Somov, “Alexandra Levchenko”, 1936. A preparatory study for La Belle Simonetta. I give here the text from Somov's diary of 1934. But Maxim himself says that for him this is, above all, Alexandra Levchenko in the guise of
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Friends! I invite you to the private view of Maxim Boxer's exhibition A Collector's Dream at the In Artibus foundation. Max is in the photograph and sends his regards; he kindly answered a few simple questions by way of a first introduction to his collection. The
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In particular, the admission of visitors to museums and to organisations engaged in exhibition activity is suspended; a temporary ban is introduced on the staging of plays, musical concerts, circus performances and other mass events. Similar recommendations have been sent to the regional bodies governing culture. In addition, the activities
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🧼🦠The Ministry of Culture has decided to close all federal institutions for quarantine🧪🔬. upd some sources in federal cultural institutions deny the reports that they are closing at all, or closing to visitors; staff have been offered a shortened working day, masks and new safety measures, and have preferred to
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In view of the spread of coronavirus, the Hermitage announces the following. - A crisis management plan has been drawn up, which includes possible options for the museum's operation should the situation deteriorate. - The Hermitage does not plan to hold any mass cultural events with more than 1,000
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The Tretyakov Gallery only recently announced with pride that it was ready to receive the public and to furnish its guests with hand sanitiser. Until thunder strikes, the peasant will not cross himself.
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In the exhibition of the Bishop's Chambers at the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve, one can see a women's monastic conical hat of the 1910s, made of dark blue velvet and cotton fabric. This article employs an interesting device that contemporary couturiers would do well to note:
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Overdosing on fillers: when the Emperor Trajan cannot be told from the Emperor Vespasian. The large marble so-called Bosham Head of AD 121 was found in West Sussex in 1800 and is on display at the Chichester District Museum.