Art · Museums · People · Rome
The outstanding Netherlandish painter and draughtsman of the 15th and 16th centuries Jan Gossaert, also known as Mabuse or Johannes Malbodius, travelled to Rome in the autumn of 1508 in the retinue of Philip of Burgundy. Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands, had sent Philip as ambassador to Pope
Observations · Science · People · Humour
Vasily Belokurov, one of the 2026 Kavli Prize laureates in astrophysics, is a galactic archaeologist. I have read his article about intruders and learnt that the constancy of the starry sky, to which people have prayed from the Palaeolithic to our own day, is an optical illusion the length of
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Ever seen a Pushkin like this? Not the most popular nor the most comprehensible of his portraits, usually called the "Linyov" portrait after an unidentified amateur artist, Ivan Logginovich Linyov. The authorship of this work, like its provenance, is enigmatic. Originally the portrait was signed simply "I.
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The AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art has opened "The Wrong Horizon", an exhibition of Anya Zhelud, assembled to coincide exactly with the anniversary of the artist's death. Paintings, objects and installations spanning twenty-five years, among them early works of 2000-2001 that the public
Faith · People · Pop Culture · Rome
Robert Prevost, while still a cardinal, admitted that he considered himself "quite the amateur" on the court, and regretted that after many years of mission in Peru he had hardly any opportunity to practise. Having moved to Rome, he took up the racket again and, according to the
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John Paul II really was a sportsman, and a keen one, but he did not play baseball, and that is not him in the photo. The picture is genuine, but it shows Gene Greytak, an American estate agent who made his name on his resemblance to the pontiff and worked
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Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · People
"Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" has eclipsed the legacy of Vera Mukhina, and that injustice is at last being put right. From 3 June to 27 September the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art on Delegatskaya Street is showing a large retrospective of the work of the world-famous
Art · Cinema · Moscow · Observations · People
The posthumous fate of an artist is rarely decided by the artist himself. It is decided by those who remain: an heir, a pupil, a gallerist, an executor, the sort of person who will gather the scattered works, arrange them by year and spend decades patiently reminding the world of
Art · London · Museums · Paris · People
Le Parc worked with light, mirrors, movement and optical effects: suspended mobiles, vibrating light installations, mirrored rooms, environments of projected light that "came to life" only in the presence of the viewer. He was guided by a single principle: art should turn the spectator from a passive observer