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Strauss’s waltz “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” triumphs in Paris in 1867 and draws Brahms’s remark

Old Friends Johann Strauss the Younger and Johannes Brahms. When Brahms looked through the score of Strauss's waltz "The Blue Danube", he wrote beneath it: "Alas, not by Johannes Brahms." This waltz became Strauss's triumph, eclipsing the successes of his father, Johann

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Imaginary Lego sets are always better than real ones

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Could Vincent van Gogh Have Dreamed of Such Fame?

A reproduction of Van Gogh's self-portrait in the setting of the 2003 Bollywood romantic comedy "I'm Going Mad with Love"

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Why does Alexander I look like Junior from Duolingo?

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In the 1947 film "Spring", Lyubov Orlova plays both a scientist and an actress

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The day before his death, on 11 October 1963, the 74-year-old Jean Cocteau compared his life to the progress of a roller-coaster car and said that he still wanted the rails to climb once more

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Fashion Week in Paris

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Charles Aznavour on the Champ de Mars in front of the Eiffel Tower

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Gillian Anderson recalls working with Michael Gambon on Viceroy's House in 2017

The film is devoted to the end of British rule in India. Lord Mountbatten, who presided over the partition of British India into Pakistan and India, is played by Hugh Bonneville. His wife, Lady Edwina, is played by Gillian Anderson. Michael Gambon plays Lord Ismay, the Chief of Staff, who

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In 1948 Robert Doisneau secretly photographed passers-by at a gallery window with a nude painting

In 1948, the French photographer Robert Doisneau made a series of secret photographs of people who had caught sight of a nineteenth-century painting of a female nude in the window of an art gallery. Doisneau hid his Rolleiflex behind an antique chair, so that he was nowhere to be

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François-Marie Banier, perhaps one of the foremost celebrity photographers of the twentieth century

François-Marie Banier is perhaps one of the foremost celebrity photographers of the twentieth century. I remember how, at the exhibition of his work in the Manege some 15 years ago, I was struck by the number of remarkable people whom Banier had managed to capture. But he is known

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