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Alla Demidova at 33, in Rome
Alla Demidova at 33, in Rome. Today this beauty turned 90!
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Hockney's Portrait of His Dachshund to Come Under the Hammer for the First Time
Hockney died in June 2026 at the age of 88. In 2018 his painting "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sold at Christie's in New York for $90.3 million, and Hockney was then considered the most expensive living artist. In the painting Hockney
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Christie's Creates a Separate Global Pop Culture Department
The auction house Christie's has created a separate global pop culture department, which will hold several sales a year and offer objects connected with cinema and television, music and musical instruments, sport, science and technology, natural history, fashion and popular design. Christie's spent several years studying
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A scandal is brewing in American religious circles over Meryl Streep voicing Aslan the Lion
Greta Gerwig's film "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" is due to reach cinemas in February 2027. Clive Staples Lewis wrote seven books in the "Chronicles of Narnia" cycle, and since 1950 readers have bought more than 100 million copies of them. The talking
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Lyudmila Gurchenko with a falcon in one of Moscow's apple orchards, 1991
Photo by Igor Gnevashev
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Ralf Lauren's Autumn/Winter 1993 Collection Was Dedicated to Russia
Ralf Lauren's Autumn/Winter 1993 collection was dedicated to Russia. Not only the pieces shown on the catwalk but also a line of footwear, accessories and household items appeared in a peculiar Russian style.
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As soon as you say "enough", all your gold will turn to potsherds
The Central Bank will issue collectable roubles dedicated to the cartoon The Golden Antelope. The issue will form part of the series "Russian (Soviet) Animation". In all there will be three versions of the coin. The silver coin with a face value of 3 roubles will be released
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German Vogue, October 1992
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During Art Basel this year, Sotheby's will open an exhibition apartment on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, overlooking the Tuileries Garden, with works worth nearly $150 million on display
During Art Basel this year, Sotheby's will open an exhibition apartment on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, overlooking the Tuileries Garden, with works worth nearly $150 million on display. None of them will go under the hammer: all are offered for private sale, that is, a transaction
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On 9 June 1994 the British channel ITV broadcast a documentary by the journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in which Prince Charles, now King Charles III, admitted to adultery
On 9 June 1994 the British channel ITV broadcast a documentary by the journalist Jonathan Dimbleby in which Prince Charles, now King Charles III, admitted to adultery. By then Charles and Diana had already been living apart for a year and a half. That same evening Princess Diana arrived at
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At Lamoda's "Pygmalion's Fitting Room", one of the strangest stands at Cosmoscow, created by Valeria Titova and Daria Tishkova, they recall the story told by Ovid of the Cypriot sculptor who carved a figure from ivory and…
At Lamoda's "Pygmalion's Fitting Room", one of the strangest stands at Cosmoscow, created by Valeria Titova and Daria Tishkova, they recall the story told by Ovid of the Cypriot sculptor who carved a figure from ivory and fell in love with it. People usually
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Daniela Bianchi and Sean Connery during the filming of Terence Young's From Russia with Love, 1963
In the film based on Ian Fleming's novel, Sean Connery plays James Bond for the second time, while Daniela Bianchi plays Tatiana Romanova, a clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. The young woman does not suspect that she is being manipulated by the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which