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At the Zurbarán exhibition at the Louvre I made the acquaintance of Rossy de Palma. Everyone who has seen Almodóvar's films of the eighties and nineties knows her, from "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" to "Kika". Madame Rosa Elena was invited
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The Da Vinci theme is unexpectedly continued by one of the most uncanny of French Symbolists, Odilon Redon, with a head of the Virgin inspired precisely by Da Vinci's unfinished painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (3 photos). I photographed the Redon at the opening of
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One might say that the Moscow art season truly began yesterday: the Cosmoscow fair opened, and there will be much talk of it in the days ahead. I was fortunate enough to survey the year's achievements in contemporary art and the leading galleries during the Beluga morning mediation,
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At Lamoda's "Pygmalion's Fitting Room", one of the strangest stands at Cosmoscow, created by Valeria Titova and Daria Tishkova, they recall the story told by Ovid of the Cypriot sculptor who carved a figure from ivory and fell in love with it. People usually
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On Friday I breakfasted in Kandinsky's flat, in a room whose windows look out over Zubovskaya Square. Where did Rodchenko and Stepanova live in Moscow? E. L.: At first they made do in other people's flats, in tiny rooms. They lived in a house belonging to
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Shift Gallery has opened a new space at 5c1 Petrovsky Boulevard. In a season when the news pours out nothing but closures, it is pleasant to see that the young and bold are, for a change, opening things and reopening them. The first exhibition is called "Under Observation"
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Emir Kusturica has been spotted at SPIEF. As the saying goes, if nobody catches cold, then everything will most certainly come to pass.
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🎭"Uncle Vanya", Elizaveta Boyarskaya and tenderness: how the 26th International Theatre Festival "Melikhovo Spring" opened. Yesterday the Anton Chekhov Museum-Reserve hosted the opening of the "Melikhovo Spring" theatre festival. It will run for 10 days, with companies from 6 countries presenting more than
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The 61st Venice Biennale is due to open on 9 May, this time wreathed in scandal, protest and cancellation. Allow me to recall a brief chronology of unprecedented contradictions and squabbles. 💀In February 2026 the Biennale's curator, Koyo Kouoh, dies at the age of 57, without having brought