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Herzen was finishing "My Past and Thoughts" in London, and visiting compatriots scolded him for having long since left Russia and forgotten it too well. The émigré is always charged with forgetfulness, though it is usually the homeland that does the forgetting. This week, in the rubric of
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“What is our life? A tale we shall not recall twice, once it has been told,” runs the thought from Byron’s “Don Juan”, and so at the end of every month we reassemble the key publications that can be reread and kept in memory. Archaeology and the origins of
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The artist Julio Le Parc, a pioneer of the second wave of kinetic art, died in Paris on 30 May at the age of 97. Le Parc worked with light, mirrors, movement and optical effects: suspended mobiles, vibrating light installations, mirrored rooms, environments of projected light that "came to
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I read that the museum of tiny Martha's Vineyard, off Cape Cod in Massachusetts, is returning to Hawaii a canoe, a pestle for pounding baked taro root, a grass skirt and a piece of tapa, the traditional unwoven cloth made from tree bark, which the indigenous peoples of
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Interestingly, the painting "Allegory of Hearing", executed in 1617–1618 by the Flemish artists Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, captures not merely the collection of curiosities and luxuries belonging to the rulers of the Netherlands, Archduke Albert VII and his wife Isabella, but also music
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Dutch Golden Age, c. 1651/53, Baroque artist Gabriël Metsu. Mauritshuis collection, The Hague. On long-term loan since 2019 to the Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden
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"Everything here is in miniature: a little avenue of lime trees, a pond the size of an aquarium, a little garden and park, little trees, but you stroll about a time or two, look closely, and the impression of smallness vanishes." So Anton Chekhov described the Melikhovo estate
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I have been to the Georges de La Tour exhibition "Between Shadow and Light" at the Musée Jacquemart-André five times, and each time there was a queue at the door, but if I could get in once more, I would gladly go. So I am determined not
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🎭"Uncle Vanya", Elizaveta Boyarskaya and tenderness: how the 26th International Theatre Festival "Melikhovo Spring" opened. Yesterday the Anton Chekhov Museum-Reserve hosted the opening of the "Melikhovo Spring" theatre festival. It will run for 10 days, with companies from 6 countries presenting more than
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The Greeks called the battle of the Olympian gods against the giants a Gigantomachy: creatures born of the earth who rose against the new divine order. The photograph shows a fragment of a relief of the 2nd century BC from Aphrodisias. It is now kept in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
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"The Machine", an installation by the artist Assel Kadyrkhanova devoted to Stalinist repression and the Red Terror, was secretly dismantled by the administration of the pavilion itself before the opening, and the spot where it had been displayed was hung with a black curtain. Officials are reported to
Coming Up · Moscow · Museums
🌟 From space exploration and neurobiology to the cultures of different countries: once again gathering plans for cultural leisure. From 20 to 23 May Moscow will once again host an international festival devoted to museum affairs. Its public programme includes more than 60 free events: lectures, open discussions and interviews, guided