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The cover of Bryan Ferry's album Olympia with Kate Moss is a reference to Édouard Manet's painting "Olympia". The musician says he wanted to convey the spirit of the picture without copying the pose. Doubtful, of course. The resemblance is, in truth, nil. Presumably
Paris · People · Pop Culture
Walt Disney in Paris on the Place de la Concorde in 1935 recalls the French origin of his surname, which was originally d'Isigny. The name derives from that of the town of Isigny in Normandy. Walt Disney's ancestors were Norman French who emigrated to England, and
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Yesterday Sistema Gallery opened three exhibitions at once, to mark the gallery's third birthday. The project that impressed me most was Daria Pasechnik's "Posts from Nowhere", done in an enchanted, fairy-tale style. The artist explains that she is exploring the longing for visual
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Museums · Heritage · Pop Culture
The South African studio Nyamakop has recently released Relooted, a side-scroller about a crew of thieves who, in the near future, break into the private collections of Western museums to return African artefacts to their homeland. According to the plot, the countries have signed a repatriation treaty, but it
Cinema · People · Pop Culture
Borisov is on a list of 534 performers and film industry professionals who have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the USA, the organisation that awards the Oscars each year. The list includes recent Oscar winners and nominees, among them Kieran Culkin, Ariana
Coming Up · Moscow · Pop Culture · Reportage
Today at the Moscow Variety Theatre the first chords sounded of one of the most anticipated premieres of this autumn: a press conference was held there to present the musical “Waltz-Boston”. There was as yet no orchestra and no full glare of the footlights, but there were sketches of
Cinema · Books · Pop Culture
Rowling is an executive producer of the project and is not involved in writing the scripts. Filming of the series will begin in summer 2025. Each season will be devoted to one book of the original series. Pictured: the new Severus Snape, Paapa Essiedu, a British actor whose parents came
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Military chess, invented in the USSR in 1939, whose pieces include the regiment, platoon, army, division, company, battery, sapper, fortress, aviation and landmine. And the board is divided by a river. It can be seen in the Underground Museum of Zaryadye at the exhibition “The Chess Code”