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Robert De Niro first visited Moscow in February 1982, on the eve of filming Emil Loteanu's "Anna Pavlova", in a cameo as the ballerina's impresario Sol Hurok

Robert De Niro first visited Moscow in February 1982, on the eve of filming Emil Loteanu's "Anna Pavlova", in a cameo as the ballerina's impresario Solomon Yurok. The participation of a Hollywood star might have secured the film a release in the United States,

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Robert De Niro in Moscow

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Paris auction house Bonhams to offer Salvador Dalí's largest painting, or rather a theatre backdrop measuring 20 by 30 metres

Dalí created the backdrop for the ballet Bacchanale, a surrealist production of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dalí also wrote the libretto and designed some of the costumes for the production. Besides Dalí, the creation of the ballet involved Coco Chanel and Prince Alexander Shervashidze, the legendary set designer

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As for the ladies' fever for fashion weeks and new collections, I can only recall the words of Leo Tolstoy in "A Calendar of Wisdom":

Nothing stands so much in the way of a good life as the concern that one's clothes should be handsome and fashionable

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Serge Gainsbourg died 35 years ago

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The South African game Relooted, about the theft of African art from Western museums, was released a couple of weeks ago and at its peak attracted just 57 concurrent users on the leading online gaming platform

A studio with thirty full-time employees and a host of outside consulting firms worked on the game for seven years, yet it is estimated to have sold fewer than 2,000 copies. Although nobody is actually playing Relooted (in Russian, Pereukradeno), it has received wide coverage in the leading

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Good Lord, Gucci creative director Demna Gvasalia has issued a manifesto on his vision of the brand

Good Lord, Gucci creative director Demna Gvasalia has issued a manifesto on his vision of the brand. These manifestos are always one and the same, but this time reading it leaves a particularly odd sensation. A little water and pathos to begin with: "A house that has lived many

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Canadian Supermodel Yasmin Ghauri with Friends

Photograph by Albert Watson for German Vogue, 1992 Mood: Tamara de Lempicka

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Here is a question I keep turning over: which is the better role, the protocol droid C-3PO or Joe Biden?

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As early as 1903, the German philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel described the effect of scrolling through a social-media feed:

This results in the nerves reacting with maximum intensity for so long a time that they finally cease to react at all. [ ... ] Thus there arises an incapacity to react to new sensations with the appropriate energy

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In the "Object of Desire" column: the new book "Death to the World"

New in the "Object of Desire" column is the book "Death to the World. Volume One: Genesis", which gathers all the material from the original Orthodox American samizdat "Death to the World" of the 1990s, published by the monks of the Monastery of St

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Alexander Gradsky during the filming of Andrei Konchalovsky's "A Romance of Lovers" in 1973

photo by Yevgeny Umnov