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Brooklyn artist Jeremy Olson dresses the windows of the Hermès flagship on Madison Avenue in New York as a surrealist installation: a body sinking into a sofa, surrounded by biomorphic furniture and lamps

Brooklyn artist Jeremy Olson has dressed the windows of the Hermès flagship on Madison Avenue in New York as a surrealist installation: a body sinking into a sofa, surrounded by biomorphic furniture and lamps. Hermès wanted to play on its signature motifs and the equestrian theme, hence the appearance of

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Anti-British propaganda in Japan in 1941 plays on Churchill's initials W.C., the international sign for a lavatory, water closet

Anti-British propaganda in Japan in 1941 plays on Churchill's initials W.C., the international sign for a lavatory, water closet. The gesture, frequently found in manga, anime and comedy scenes as an exaggerated reaction to something foul-smelling, may in the broader context of visual culture be

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Incidentally, Madonna came rolling into Russia in 2006 all the same, protests notwithstanding

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Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov", orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in the version of Leonid Baratov, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre

Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov", orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in the version of Leonid Baratov, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. Alexander Pirogov as Boris, Bronislava Zlatogorova as Fyodor, Nikandr Khanayev as Shuisky, Alexander Peregudov as the boyar Khrushchov. Photo by Semyon Mishin-

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King Charles III and Camilla attend King's Trust gala dinner at Christie's in New York

Yesterday King Charles III and Camilla dropped in at Christie's in New York. Not for the sale, it must be said, but for a gala dinner in aid of the King's Trust, which turns 50 this year. At the preview of lots for the forthcoming sales,

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Keaton’s Annie Hall script, art collection and personal items go up for auction

Bonhams announces the sale of 550 lots from the personal effects of Diane Keaton, who died six months ago. Among the lots are the original script of "Annie Hall" with no title on the cover (estimate $2,000-3,000), a Ralph Lauren Purple Label houndstooth jacket ($200-

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Syncretism Imperceptibly Shades into Idiocy: Katy Perry Tossed a Credit Card into the Trevi Fountain Because She Couldn't Find Any Small Change

Syncretism imperceptibly shades into idiocy: Katy Perry tossed a credit card into the Trevi Fountain because she couldn't find any small change. She might as well have gone for bitcoin

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Mary GrandPré and her illustrations for the seven Harry Potter books

Unpublished Illustrations for "Harry Potter" by the Now-Legendary Artist Mary GrandPré. Mary GrandPré was offered the illustration of the first Harry Potter book in the late 1990s by an editor at Scholastic, and at first she declined: her schedule simply would not allow so large a project.

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Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet in Nadezhda Lamanova's dresses made of towels and tablecloths

The sisters Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet show off dresses by Nadezhda Lamanova before the lens of the photographer Germaine Krull during a shoot in Berlin in 1925 for the newspaper Excelsior-Dimanche. Lilya Brik and Elsa Triolet were not mannequins. One was Mayakovsky's beloved and the chief

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84 musical theatres in the USSR by 1984 and Russia's opera houses opened in the Soviet period

By 1984 the USSR had 84 musical theatres, including 50 opera and ballet theatres and 34 theatres of musical comedy and operetta. There were theatres in every capital of the union republics, as well as in the large cultural and industrial centres: Leningrad, Novosibirsk, Perm, Irkutsk, Rostov-on-Don and

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Isabella Rossellini and Monica Bellucci, 1992

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