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The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Associa

The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Association Sloboda". A magnificent pattern emerges from beneath the accumulated

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On 10 September a sculpture by the American artist Chabalala Self, "Lady in Blue", appeared on the plinth in the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square in London

Contemporary art has been shown on the pedestal, built in the 19th century for an equestrian statue that was never installed, since 1998, and since 2005 the Mayor of London's office has chosen a new work for the plinth every two years. "Lady in Blue" is

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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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When the theatre sets about making sense of the algorithmic age, the talk inevitably turns to the balance between tradition and experiment

When the theatre sets about making sense of the algorithmic age, the talk inevitably turns to the balance between tradition and experiment. The project “Neurotheatre: A Rehearsal for the Future”, whose launch was announced on 7 September at the opening of the Theatre of Nations season, is conceived not as

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Marcus Aurelius advised retreating into oneself, for nowhere does a man withdraw more quietly

Marcus Aurelius advised retreating into oneself, for nowhere does a man withdraw more quietly. In the digest, for my part, I try to gather what has been published over the month while the memories are still fresh. So, the main things on the channel for August. The section on archaeology

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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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At the Jolly Negro

The historic sign of a colonial goods shop in Paris, at 14 rue Mouffetard. The white woman, incidentally, contrary to first impressions, is pouring a drink for the dark-skinned figure, and not the other way round. In the 2010s the sign began to suffer at the hands of city

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Boris Pasternak holds a portrait of Stalin together with its author, the artist Pavel Malkov, at the 1934 Congress of Soviet Writers

Igor Grabar, speaking on behalf of the artists attending the congress as guests, announced that the artists intended to present the congress with a portrait of Stalin. Boris Pasternak, a member of the congress presidium, who was sitting on the stage, took it upon himself to steady the portrait of

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The cult of Maxim Gorky in the USSR is astonishing

Explicable, it seems, by his part in organising the pay of the Bolsheviks from 1902

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Japanese Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka accused of image manipulation in ten papers over the past twenty years

Japanese Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka stands accused of image manipulation in ten papers over the past twenty years. Yamanaka received the Nobel Prize in 2012 for reprogramming mature cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, and heads the corresponding centre at Kyoto University, CiRA. We shall not go into the research

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11 roubles 73 kopecks

11 roubles 73 kopecks. That is now the price of looking at a single leaf of an archival file in the Sverdlovsk Region online. Not downloading it, not printing it, merely seeing it on a screen. Many people are discussing the resolution issued by the regional government on 19 August:

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The US Department of Justice has announced that if repairs and funding for the Kennedy Center are suspended, the building will have to be demolished

The collision arises from a lawsuit brought by the Democrat Joyce Beatty against the attachment of Trump's name to the building. In May 2026 a court had already ordered that name removed from the title "Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing