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Yesterday King Charles III and Camilla dropped in at Christie's in New York. Not for the sale, it must be said, but for a gala dinner in aid of the King's Trust, which turns 50 this year. At the preview of lots for the forthcoming sales,
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Last night the Great Hall of the Conservatoire was sold out. The Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theatre was marking its 90th anniversary, and did so on the country's foremost academic stage. The programme: Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Leonid Desyatnikov's Opera in a new
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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. 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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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. 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
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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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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, 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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