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Strange as it may seem, Pushkin and Eugene Onegin are mentioned in Epstein's correspondence. The context is yet another girl whom he is being urged to take on. It is reported that she is connected to the Russian imperial family, and that her great-great-grandfather, a certain
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A photograph by the Hungarian photographer André Kertész, 1971
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Leningrad-born journalist Katya Kazakina has been awarded, for the second time, the prestigious Front Page Award for women in journalism, presented by the New York Newswomen's Club. Kazakina is a senior reporter at Artnet News, where she writes the popular weekly column The Art Detective, covering the
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Good Lord, how tired one is of Rothko and Klimt. The auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s have tallied up the year. Christie’s projected sales came to $6.2 billion, almost 7% more than last year. After a quiet first half, sales picked up considerably in the autumn.
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Tibetan culture, late nineteenth to early twentieth century. Metropolitan Museum
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Yesterday at Sotheby’s in New York a self-portrait by Frida Kahlo entitled “The Dream” was sold for $54.7 million. The sale set a record price for a painting by a woman artist, surpassing the previous maximum of $44.4 million for “Jimson Weed” by the American artist
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New York's odious mayor and his wife have already managed to publish a children's book about themselves. How sweet they are, how sugary and cartoonish. They tell the story of their wedding in the subway. On the one hand, they go on constructing the myth of
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The most interesting thing about the election of a Ugandan-born, half-Gujarati, half-Punjabi Muslim socialist as Mayor of New York is that in the USA the inhabitants of almost 30 of the largest cities can choose their mayors, whereas in Russia, tell me, where else besides Moscow and
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Jesus Christ knocks at the door of the United Nations building in New York. The painting is evidently meant to convey that true peace can be found only through Christ. One might, however, put a question on the side to the moneychangers driven out of the temple: why has Bethlehem
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An unknown Kerouac manuscript has been found among the effects of a mafia boss. Evidently he, too, believed that real jazz is when they shoot off the beat. Jack Kerouac, author of the cult novel On the Road and symbol of the Beat Generation. A film adaptation of the same