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La Casa Kahlo museum on Frida Kahlo's childhood and youth to open in Coyoacán

A new museum devoted to the childhood and youth of the artist will open in the Mexican district of Coyoacán, in the house of Frida Kahlo's parents. The exhibition will include personal belongings, documents and photographs, which were first kept by Frida's parents and then passed

A sick tsar sits on his bed with his hands over his ears, facing ghostly figures in armour, women and children, while two figures in black monastic robes stand at right.

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Mikhail Klodt's drawing of Ivan the Terrible and the shades of his victims, Stavropol

"Ivan the Terrible and the Shades of His Victims", Mikhail Klodt, paper, ink, gouache. Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts

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Notice to Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky, architect of the Hotel Ukraina, that his case has been closed for lack of any corpus delicti: in this same case he had been sentenced to 15 years in the camps

A document from the new exhibition at the Museum of Architecture

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In Cleveland, an abandoned bus is to become a museum of immigration

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Ancient mosaic taken from Italy during the war returned to Pompeii Archaeological Park

Even 80 years after the end of the Second World War, stolen works of art continue to return to their rightful owners. Among the recent high-profile cases of restitution is the return to the granddaughters of the Viennese collector Adalbert Parlagi of Claude Monet's painting "The

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Fine gold Roman helmets of the fourth century from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia

Fine gold Roman helmets of the fourth century from the Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia. These are the so-called Berkasovo-Jarak helmets. Two similar gold pieces were found in one place. They probably belong to a hoard assembled by a barbarian warrior after combing a battlefield. The

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Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art

Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art. From the Daguerreotype to Artificial Intelligence". The exhibition is very large: one can wander happily for several hours, for it occupies two floors of the Manege. It opens with the very first

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The Khludov Psalter, a ninth-century Byzantine manuscript in the State Historical Museum

The Khludov Psalter, created in the mid-ninth century, has been recognised as a UNESCO monument and inscribed in the Memory of the World International Register. The Khludov Psalter is an outstanding work, and one of only three early monuments of Byzantine art to have survived to our day. It

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I cannot describe the feeling with which the museum attendant learned that the figure in Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe's photograph is a man in disguise

I cannot describe the feeling with which the museum attendant learned that the figure in Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe's photograph is a man in disguise. Thank you, Lord, that naivety still lives among people, and a truly holy simplicity

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Yury Nechaev-Maltsov's role in founding the Museum of Fine Arts and his commemoration

How is the memory of Yury Nechayev-Maltsov preserved within the walls of the Pushkin Museum? The Egyptian Hall bears his name, and on the façade of the museum there is a memorial plaque with a bas-relief portrait of Yury Stepanovich. And rightly so: Yury Stepanovich Maltsov was, together

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Exhibition of over 300 works by Ivan Klyun from a family collection runs until 16 September

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Ivan Klyun Foundation present an exhibition devoted to one of the key artists of the Russian avant-garde, Ivan Klyun. Ivan Klyun (1873–1943) was a associate of Malevich, the author of the first kinetic constructions in Russian art, and a theorist

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Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480

Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480. In the nineteenth century the studiolo was bought by a German art dealer and taken to Venice. In 1939 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum