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A barricade set up in the autumn of 1917 across Ostozhenka, by the Church of the Resurrection of the Word. In the bell tower of the church is a Bolshevik firing point. This is dreadful not only as a fact of civil war but as a symbol. A bell tower,
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Every human being, every member of the human family, bears responsibility for the peace of the whole world. No one has the right to cast off the lofty and beautiful duty of creating good. No one has the right to burn Joan of Arc. Who has been given the right
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The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. To mark the centenary, the exhibition Paris 1925 has opened at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in the Trocadéro, in
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On the desk lies a note with a quotation from Romain Rolland: All the joy of life lies in creation; to create is to kill death
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The string of absurd updates to the file on the disgraceful Louvre robbery seems destined never to end. New glaring details have come to light, but the chief detail remains unchanged: so far, we have not seen a single resignation. How about this? A month and a half before the
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The Louvre and the National Galleries of Scotland lent Chardin's still lifes, sung by Diderot, for Dior's summer collection show in June 2025. Two paintings by one of the greatest realist artists of the 18th century graced the debut show of Jonathan Anderson, the new creative
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Aeschylus, The Persians Illustration: The Battle of Salamis by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1868
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The screen around us. A robot converses with visitors at the "Electrification of the USSR" pavilion. Do you know what year it was? 1959. It looks like the future, yet it was sixty years ago. So what is it that surprises us all so much now? Photo from
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No better combo than Einstein and Mr Bean could possibly be devised. Any thoughts as to why they are there?