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Painting “Enlightenment”, 2013, by Mi-Yon Choi

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Don't Try to Escape from the Giacometti Museum

In a white gallery, a wooden cabinet-like object with framed drawings and the label «Музей меня» stands on a plinth. On the walls hang a painting of mugs with Russian text and a dark looped

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Gallery corner with a cabinet-like object, a painting and a looped cord on the wall

NB! · Archive · The East · Books · Nature

Fabulous Beasts from the Manuscript of the "Book of the Marvels of Marco Polo"

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I, It Turns Out

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“On the Waves”, a Quilt by Setsuko Matsushima, 2017

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In Tehran, the Saint Mary Metro Station Has Opened, Adorned with Images of Jesus Christ, the Mother of God and a Christian Church

Clay figurine of a woman with raised arms on a swing between two tall posts with red patterns, each topped with a dove.

NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Museums · Ethnography

Clay figurine of a woman on a swing from a household shrine of the Late Minoan period

A clay female figurine with a swing, from a household shrine of the Late Minoan period. The uprights of the swing are decorated with a red pattern and surmounted by doves perched upon them. Enigmatic artefacts of bygone ages, whose true meaning one can only guess at

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Magnificent sculptures above the tomb of Louis de Brézé, husband of Diane de Poitiers, who died in 1531, in Rouen Cathedral

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The pig-shaped sausage dish is glad to see no one; it has long since understood everything about everybody

Book page with black capital letters on grey textured paper reading “Traduit de l’américain par Béatrice Vierne”.

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French book translated from American by Béatrice Vierne

Translated from the American. Sheer genius

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