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Everywhere art criticism is in decline, intellectually corrupted, mired in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctness and, alarmingly, addressed only to other critics and their like

The English art critic Brian Sewell

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Much like us, only without the telephones

Martin Parr (1952-2025)

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Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, who has departed to the Lord at the age of 75, bore the name Panteleimon in Orthodox baptism

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The Marquise de Montespan as Judith, Thriftily Holding the Severed Head of Holofernes

Once more, then: the Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV and mother of seven of his children, in the guise of the Old Testament heroine Judith, the young widow who saved besieged Judea by cutting off the head of Nebuchadnezzar's seduced general Holofernes while he slept. A

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A Good Poet, Alexander Volovik

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Tolkien's own illustrations for "Letters from Father Christmas", the series of letters he wrote to his children every year

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Mikhail Nesterov's "Tsarevna": a masterly embodiment of the Russian winter and a lament for a beloved wife

Mikhail Nesterov's "Tsarevna" is a masterly embodiment of the Russian winter and a lament for a beloved wife. Nesterov painted this picture in memory of his late wife, giving his heroine the eyes and the expression of the woman he loved. That is why the tsarevna

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We Were Instructed to Draw Up an Updated Five-Year Programme for the Development of Museums, and We Have Prepared It

Mikhail Piotrovsky has summed up the work of the Union of Museums of Russia. The occasion: the Union of Museums has presented a strategy for the development of the sector over the next five years. Among its proposals are the legislative definition of the terms "museum" and "

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Sergei Rachmaninoff with ladies on the steps of the manor house at the Krasnenkoye estate, Voronezh Governorate, in 1899

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff with ladies on the steps of the manor house at the Krasnenkoye estate, Voronezh Governorate, in 1899. Posing with Rachmaninoff are two charming dogs, together with Natalya Alexandrovna Satina, Yelena Yulyevna Kreutzer, Natalia Nikolayevna Lanting and Madame Mayevskaya.

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“My Eyes at the Moment of Apparitions”, a painting by the German outsider artist August Natterer, 1913

A meme a hundred years old, then

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The legendary tale of two college dropouts who, working in a California garage, changed the world of computing usually omits Apple's third founder, Ronald Wayne (who, incidentally, created the first…

On 1 April 1976 Wayne drew up the partnership agreement for the Apple Computer Company, typing it out on his own IBM typewriter. He received a 10 per cent stake in the start-up, but the trio did not last long: twelve days later, fearing financial liability, Wayne withdrew from

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Philadelphia Museum of Art has filed a lawsuit against its former director and CEO Sasha Suda, reports Artguide

Philadelphia Museum of Art has filed a lawsuit against its former director and CEO Sasha Suda, reports Artguide. The suit states that she “misappropriated the museum's funds and lied to conceal the theft”. Suda was recently dismissed from the museum after three years in the post, despite the