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The table at which Verochka Mamontova sat for Valentin Serov's painting "Girl with Peaches" has survived and stands in the main manor house of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve
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In August 1939, Jacques Jaujard, Director of the French National Museums, carried out the largest and most secret operation to save the world's art
In August 1939, Jacques Jaujard, Director of the French National Museums, carried out the largest and most secret operation to save the world's art. A few days before the outbreak of the Second World War, the Louvre was suddenly closed to the public on the pretext of routine
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
At the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, a Touching Exhibition, "Flowers
At the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, a touching exhibition, "Flowers. A Symbol of Beauty", is running without much fuss, devoted entirely to the presence of flowers in Russian art. It opens with Kramskoy's "Bouquet of Flowers. Phloxes" of 1884, the only pure flower
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In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region
In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region. Vsevolod Pavlov, a specialist in Ancient Egypt who had
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Lenin's Study at the Lenin Museum-Estate at Gorki
Lenin's study at the Lenin Museum-Estate at Gorki. The handsomeness of the furnishings owes everything to the fact that they survive from the estate's pre-revolutionary mistress, Zinaida Morozova, with the exception of the clothed office desk delivered specially for Ilyich
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Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes
Fet begged to “drive the living boat off with a single push”, to catch the fleeting before it vanishes. The monthly digest has a more modest task, though the same one: to hold on to what matters before the flood of news washes it away. Here is the main news
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Head of Odysseus from the sculptural group “The Blinding of Polyphemus”, found in 1957 in the grotto of the villa of the Emperor Tiberius at Sperlonga
The work illustrates the episode from the “Odyssey” in which the hero and his companions blind the Cyclops Polyphemus. Because of its stylistic closeness to the “Laocoön” sculpture, this Odysseus is sometimes linked with the work of the Rhodian masters Hagesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus. After many years of restoration, the
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In early September 2025 the US State Department, which is responsible for the American pavilion, formally notified the curator John Ravenal that his project with the artist Robert Lazzarini had been selected for the Venice Biennale
In early September 2025 the US State Department, which is responsible for the American pavilion, formally notified the curator John Ravenal that his project with the artist Robert Lazzarini had been selected for the Venice Biennale. The project was called History Maker, and its institutional partner and sponsor was the
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The vandals who tried to attach a propaganda photograph to Picasso's 1901 "Motherhood" and poured paint on the floor of the National Gallery have been found guilty of criminal damage
The vandals who tried to attach a propaganda photograph to Picasso's 1901 "Motherhood" and poured paint on the floor of the National Gallery have been found guilty of criminal damage. Sentence will be passed in the autumn. It is all, of course, very stupid and dreadful,
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At the Paul Éluard Museum of Art and History in Saint-Denis, the exhibition "Believing and Healing. And Deliver Us from Evil" runs until 15 November
At the Paul Éluard Museum of Art and History in Saint-Denis, housed within the walls of a former Carmelite convent of 1625, 400 metres from the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the burial place of the kings of France, the exhibition "Believing and Healing. And Deliver Us from Evil&
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Marc Chagall's 1924 etching L'Acrobate au violon spent twenty years in a French customs warehouse and has now been handed over to the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Besançon
Marc Chagall's 1924 etching L'Acrobate au violon spent twenty years in a French customs warehouse and has now been handed over to the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Besançon. In 2006 the French authorities stopped a lorry that was taking works of art out