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A new contemporary art fair, Catalog, has opened in the Sytin printing house on Pyatnitskaya Street. The fair is organised by the Association of Galleries and may be regarded as normative: laid out in a single line, clearly arranged, with all the galleries on an equal footing, to the point
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At the Antiques Salon I rather fell for this set of children's furniture. It looks exactly like a proper "grown-up" Empire-style study, only everything is made to a reduced scale: note the proportion of the doll to the back of the sofa. The sideboards
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Also in the photograph: Philip's firstborn, Prince Stefan; Danica's parents, the Impressionist painter Milan Marinkovic and Bepa Marinkovic; and Prince Philip's mother, Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza, in her second marriage Duchess of Segorbe
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Jean-Christophe is a direct male-line descendant of Joseph, the eldest of Napoleon's brothers. Napoleon's only legitimate son, Napoleon II, died young and childless, while the numerous progeny of Napoleon's second son, the illegitimate Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, cannot lay claim to the
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An exhibition by the art group “Rossiya” has opened at the Nakovalnya Gallery. They are among my very favourite artists, Ivan and Yegor Dmitriev especially. The show is a small one, and thoroughly agreeable
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And there my review of the contemporary art fair comes to an end. In all the photographs for the society pages I shall appear with the KM20 bag; when the photographers offered to shoot me without the carrier bag, I replied: I am not ashamed of carrier bags.
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The caption on the label reads: Yakov Khomich. Does this ever happen to you? ps Olga Sviblova, who was standing nearby, said at the end of the scene that one of these works ought to be bought
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Two exhibitions by Rostan Tavasiev have opened at once at Sistema Gallery, both on a cosmic theme: "Asteroids and Comets" and "Planetary Nebulae". They are united in the artist's project entitled "A Catalogue of Works of Art in Outer Space". The very
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After yesterday's radio broadcast I hurried to Plus Dacha in Gorky Park, where in the coolness of the spreading avenues the atmospheric playlist of the "Ultima Salon: Africa" party, curated by Ultima Yandex Go and Yandex Music, was already playing. Plus Dacha has changed greatly since