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Asia Times journalist Gabriel Honrada writes that reports of a Chinese satellite being refuelled in orbit have sharpened the US–China rivalry in space

Asia Times journalist Gabriel Honrada writes that reports of a Chinese satellite being refuelled in orbit have sharpened the US–China rivalry in space. In September the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post reported that Chinese researchers had announced the first refuelling of a navigation satellite in high orbit.

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The Guardian has published a lengthy conversation with the writer Salman Rushdie, his wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths and the director Alex Gibney

The attack on the writer took place on 12 August 2022 in Chautauqua, in upstate New York, where Rushdie was due to speak. Griffiths was at home in New York that morning and learned of what had happened by telephone from an acquaintance, the details reaching her only later through

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While in France the Musée Picasso prepares to issue officially a new edition of bronze sculptures by the late artist, in Russia a case is raging over the sale of forged casts of works by Ernst Neizvestny and their display at the Tretyakov Gallery

This case has been dragging on since May, and I deliberately refrained from writing about it. In the first place, it seemed to me that for many years now everyone with even the slightest connection to art collecting and the life of Russian auctions has known that our market is

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The president of the La Biennale foundation, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, said in a recent interview with Corriere della Sera that he would readmit Russia to the Biennale all over again, and considers his actions right and proper; as for the regulations…

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I read a column by Marc Spiegler, who ran Art Basel from 2007 to 2022

I read a column by Marc Spiegler, who ran Art Basel from 2007 to 2022. A comical piece. He laments that galleries are struggling, that the market shrank by some ten per cent in 2024, and that young investors are buying bitcoin instead of paintings. Duremar, having caught a pond

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A popular genre, a chat about the brain: on Hugh Groucutt's interesting idea that Homo sapiens took shape slowly and gradually, without revolutionary upheavals

In essence, the cognitive revolution of 40,000 to 50,000 years ago is one of the textbook stories. Homo sapiens supposedly grew clever all of a sudden, drew a bull on a cave wall and set off to conquer the planet. The trouble is that anatomically modern humans appeared

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My expertise has been officially attested 🥹 For the third year running, we are finding the leading lights of cultural production for the RBC Visionaries project

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The Guardian has published a list of the 100 best books ever published in English

The list includes 75 books originally written in English and 25 in translation. There are 5 Russian authors on the list: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Grossman and Nabokov, with 8 books between them: 6. "Anna Karenina" 7. "War and Peace" 25. "Lolita" 28. "The

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Prohibitions Alone Will Not Do

Prohibitions alone will not do. The best defence is attack. A humanitarian intervention must be followed by a clever humanitarian response. The series «GDR» and «Dear Willy» have already appeared, but that is clearly not enough. Nor do these series touch on our own times. That is why I am

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He was physically abused, maybe even sexually abused

A Cambridge lecturer on the childhood of Ivan the Terrible. As the saying goes, this is as far as your education has taken you Fortunately, in this case the British scholar is not, after all, a professional historian, nor indeed a scholar at all, but merely gives lectures in adult

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"The Angel of History," wrote Benjamin, "has his face turned toward the past, but a storm is blowing from Paradise and propels him irresistibly into the future

"The Angel of History," wrote Benjamin, "has his face turned toward the past, but a storm is blowing from Paradise and propels him irresistibly into the future. What to us appears as a chain of events, to him is one single catastrophe." March turned out to

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France's new Culture Minister Catherine Pégard said on France Inter on 30 March that the Louvre renovation plan must be adjusted to take account of security concerns

France's new Culture Minister Catherine Pégard said on France Inter on 30 March that the Louvre renovation plan must be adjusted to take account of security concerns. It is her first public interview in her new post. The occasion was the robbery of the museum on 19 October