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Iriska (Bun)
Iriska (Bun). Photograph by Katya Kosova at the “Cat Exhibition”, which opened yesterday at the SetProjects space
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Yesterday the National Award for Cultural Managers was presented for the first time at the Theatre of Nations
Yesterday the National Award for Cultural Managers was presented for the first time at the Theatre of Nations. If you remember, we have followed this story from the very beginning, from the moment the award was first proposed. We watched the idea take concrete shape, and now we have seen
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Ulyana Sergeenko presents a nostalgic Haute Couture collection for Spring-Summer 2026, timed to the House's 15th anniversary and therefore devoted to signature silhouettes, techniques, models and other recognisable elements from the archives
What can one say? As always, it is very beautiful. The finest detail, the most extravagant flights of fancy, handwork of astonishing mastery... And had I not been a friend of the brand and seen their workshops with my own eyes, I should probably not have believed that all these
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In the New "Buratino", Nemolyaeva Plays Tortilla
In the new "Buratino", Nemolyaeva plays Tortilla. And while there are questions to be put to the film itself, Nemolyaeva's performance gives us a wise tortoise from some statistical bureau, with whom one longs to take tea with raspberry jam on a saucer. I am glad
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Singer Lou Doillon, youngest daughter of Jane Birkin, told an anecdote from life at the opening of a bridge named in honour of the actress:
My son asked me: is your mother still dead? I answered him: yes, but today she is becoming a bridge. One hopes it was the son who is now 3 years old who asked, and not the one who is 23. And yes, Paris now has a bridge named after
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Photographed beside Leonid Sokov's "Levitan" at the Catalog contemporary art fair on preview day
Photographed beside Leonid Sokov's "Levitan" at the Catalog contemporary art fair on preview day. To be honest, on leaving the house I recalled a selection of looks from a men's fashion public page and hastily assembled an outfit to suit the mood of the
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Highlights from Art Basel, and Not Without Picasso
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Yesterday I attended the opening of the Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Yesterday I attended the opening of the Gerhard Richter retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Believe me, taking in all the splendour Richter has created is harder than reading this text. Given that some call the 93-year-old Richter the greatest artist of our time, the exhibition is indeed
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All week, everyone I know in Paris has been discussing Kirill Serebrennikov's premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet, where "Hamlet. Ghosts" was presented
All week, everyone I know in Paris has been discussing Kirill Serebrennikov's premiere at the Théâtre du Châtelet, where "Hamlet. Ghosts" was presented, to a text by Serebrennikov about Hamlet in the context of world culture and modern history. The first thing that distinguishes the production
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When you have walked past every stand at Cosmoscow and are ready to discuss what you saw
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While Moscow plunges into the raging art scene, Saint Petersburg calmly opens the autumn social season
While Moscow plunges into the raging art scene, Saint Petersburg calmly opens the autumn social season. And in the history of Petersburg, as you know, the society dinner was always more than a mere taking of nourishment: it was a form of conversation, a platform for ideas and a place
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Bulgakov and Akhmatova Were Not Friends
Bulgakov and Akhmatova were not friends. Having met in 1933 at the artist Nikolay Radlov's, they saw each other only a few times, when Akhmatova came to visit the Bulgakovs. By all appearances there were no more than seven meetings. Even so, in that short time Akhmatova did