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German police dismantle international ring selling forgeries of Rembrandt, Picasso and Kahlo

German Police Uncover Ring of Forged-Masterpiece Dealers. German police have announced the dismantling of an international gang that sold fake paintings for millions of dollars. The fraudsters passed off forgeries as works by Rembrandt, Pablo Picasso and Frida Kahlo. According to the police, the alleged organiser is a 77-

Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris · Humour

Did one of the Louvre robbers lose a Russian passport?

It won't get any funnier than this. After the Minister of Culture praised the Director of the Louvre, and the Director of the Louvre praised the head of security, who, pray, can possibly be to blame for the robbery, if not the Russians? Certainly not some gang of

Faith · Art · Books · Society

Maximilian Voloshin's 1919 poem on Rus' in flames and the city of Kitezh

All Russia is a bonfire. An unquenchable flame From border to border, from age to age Hums, roars... And the stone cracks. And every torch is a man. Have we not ourselves, like our forefathers, Set the grass fire? And the hurricane Has fanned it, and in acrid smoke are

Museums · Science · Society

A gathering of museum directors from around the world, Museums of Tomorrow Roundtable 2025, was held in San Francisco on the influence of artificial intelligence on museums; among other things, it discussed the problem of data: most museum…

AI is already used in museum practice: it helps with research, navigation through the galleries, cataloguing and the attribution of works. And the participants called for joint efforts and the creation of a "coordinated body of knowledge about art". What remains the museum's own in the

A wooden gate with a yellow marker on its post stands alone in a grassy field with no fence, trees in the distance.

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Photograph of a lone gate in a field with a caption about a museum security system

President-Directress of the Louvre: The Museum's Security System Worked to Perfection. The museum's security system:

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Why is Trump called vulgar, while Macrons is not, given all this?

Art · Observations · Society

Ugliness in art from the Middle Ages to today and a reflection on the displacement of beauty

In the Middle Ages, ugly images were meant to frighten, and through that fright to achieve certain didactic, admonitory ends. In the Baroque era, ugliness is used for emotional engagement; in the age of modernism, the unlovely aesthetic calls for revolt against the bourgeois idea of beauty; postmodernism and post-

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Kerensky, Uritsky, Sverdlov, Zinoviev, Lunacharsky, Lenin, Trotsky, Kamenev and Radek Sacrifice Russia to the International

No exaggeration here, incidentally. That is exactly how it is

Architecture · Heritage · Society · Paris

Monument to the Soldiers of the Russian Expeditionary Corps in Paris, on the Place du Canada, in the 8th Arrondissement, Dedicated to the Russian Soldiers Who Fought in France as Part of the Expeditionary Corps during the First World War, from 1916 to 191

The monument was unveiled by Vladimir Putin in 2010, when he was Prime Minister of Russia. At the opening ceremony Putin and François Fillon called the monument a sign of the restoration of historical memory and a symbol of the brotherhood in arms of Russia and France.

Museums · Society · Paris

Louvre director met discontented staff, museum not expected to open before Wednesday

The Louvre is not expected to reopen before Wednesday. The museum's director, Laurence des Cars, has met the staff. According to The Times, the director's address was greeted with disapproving shouts from the hall. The staff's discontent began long before the incident. As early

Architecture · Observations · Society · Paris

Graffiti on Paris buildings, the cost of removing it and the question of fines

Graffiti in Paris has climbed far above the ground floors, and it is becoming a real calamity. All the more so given what it costs to paint it over or wash it off. And it spoils the view considerably. But perhaps, if one were to fine people for daubing residential

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Watching Trump demolish part of the White House to build a vast ballroom of some 8,000 square metres, I think that America is approaching a perfect balance of the outer and the inner, a complete accord of form and idea

Watching Trump demolish part of the White House to build a vast ballroom of some 8,000 square metres, I think that America is approaching a perfect balance of the outer and the inner, a complete accord of form and idea. But the age of plenty is drawing to a