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The Louvre and the National Galleries of Scotland lent Chardin's still lifes, sung by Diderot, for Dior's summer collection show in June 2025
Two paintings by one of the greatest realist artists of the 18th century graced the debut show of Jonathan Anderson, the new creative director of Dior's menswear line. Vase of Flowers, 1750s-60s, and Basket of Wild Strawberries, 1761. Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin Everyone is now discussing Dior&
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Katharine Hepburn, aged 80, clearing snow from the roof of her New York townhouse, 1988
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No Better Combo Than Einstein and Mr Bean Could Possibly Be Devised
No better combo than Einstein and Mr Bean could possibly be devised. Any thoughts as to why they are there?
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I wanted to write about this rather pointless exhibition in Hollywood titled Barbi to Anna Karenina, arguing that Barbie and Anna Karenina could only ever have met in Hollywood
I wanted to write about this rather pointless exhibition in Hollywood titled Barbi to Anna Karenina, arguing that Barbie and Anna Karenina could only ever have met in Hollywood. But then I thought: it is only at first glance that Barbie and Anna Karenina have nothing in common. Anna Karenina
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A set of rules on what may and may not be photographed in the USSR, issued to David Bowie and Geoff MacCormack during their Trans-Siberian journey across Russia in 1973
Moreover, for foreigners in the USSR the ban on photographing military, scientific, industrial, railway, power and transport installations applied equally to sketching them
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Daniel Radcliffe at the Bulgakov Museum
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Yesterday the world bade farewell to Brigitte Bardot: the 91-year-old actress was laid to rest in a cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean, where her parents are also buried
Macron did not appear at the farewell ceremony, the funeral or the official requiem mass. The Bardot family did not respond to the presidential administration's proposal to hold a state farewell ceremony. The French media wrote that this was connected with the wishes of the deceased, her attitude
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Xena, Warrior Princess, in the Guise of a Medieval Knight
It turns out that in 2003 Lucy Lawless appeared in the historical television project "Women Warriors", about six female fighters from different historical eras. Besides Joan of Arc, the series features Boudica, Lozen, Hua Mulan and Grace O'Malley. One for the holidays!
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Ladies and Gentlemen!
Ladies and gentlemen! Or, more precisely, my dear Gummi bears, gentlemen and ladies alike! I congratulate you on the New Year! I wish you happiness! May the new year bring you fresh lessons and achievements, may Gummiberries adorn your dwellings, and may good friends come to your aid in foul
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Did you know that the scent of Chanel No. 5 was created by a perfumer from Russia?
Ernest Beaux, a descendant of French émigrés in Russia, became after the Revolution a Russian émigré in France. From the end of the nineteenth century Ernest Beaux worked at the venerable perfumery of Alphonse Rallet in Moscow, on Vyatskaya Street. In 1907 he became technical director of the Rallet factory,
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