A black-and-white photo of a Palace of the Soviets model fragment in a pale frame on a red wall; a label naming Abram Sorkin is at left.

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Abram Sorkin's photograph of a Palace of the Soviets model on display

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You Couldn't Wish for a Better Education

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Parrot, Kees van Dongen, 1910

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Did You Recognise Yourself?

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At the Vladey gallery at 14 Neglinnaya Street, an exhibition by Vlad Kulkov / Leonid Tskhe, "The Risk-Taker and the Magus", has opened

Black and white photograph of elegantly dressed spectators applauding in a theatre auditorium, men in evening wear and women in gowns.

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Theatre audience applauding, a photograph by Robert Doisneau, 1950s

At the theatre, 1950s. Robert Doisneau

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The day before his death, on 11 October 1963, the 74-year-old Jean Cocteau compared his life to the progress of a roller-coaster car and said that he still wanted the rails to climb once more

Black-and-white ink drawing of a three-masted sailing ship at anchor in a bay, with a boat and a kayak with a paddler nearby and mountains in the distance.

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The ship Glory of Russia in Beaver Bay, Unalaska Island, drawing of 1790

Two worn blue pieces on a white background: a long curved strip like an eyebrow above and an open almond-shaped eye outline below.

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Two curved blue elements shaped like an eyebrow and an eye

Two pairs of blue appliqué pieces shaped like eyebrows and eyes, with small golden pins, on a white background.

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums

Inlaid eyes from ancient Egyptian funerary equipment, usually made with glass and obsidian inserts

Eye-shaped elements of ancient Egyptian funerary furnishings. Such inlaid eyes usually contained glass and obsidian imitations of the pupil and the eyeball

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The Aesthetics of Jacques Tati

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