Artist's work takes shine off glossy Russian image
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia  - Artist and photographer Ivan Ushkov takes dark pictures that set out to puncture the glossy image of Russia that the country's leaders try to project.
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The molecular landscapes of various materials, where features are measured in nanometers, has became a jumping off point for artists.
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It takes more than a little  imagination to see this Russian ski resort in the same bracket  as St. Moritz or Aspen.
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Damien Hirst, the superstar artist best known for his pickled displays of large animal corpses, launched his controversial work in Russia's capital on Monday at a private viewing with a difference.
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Politics and art donât always mix well, but the combination has yielded a rare chance for Hong Kong residents and visitors to see what is arguably Chinaâs most famous painting.
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Vandals painted swastikas on more than 100 Jewish and Tatar gravestones in a central Russian city and overturned many others &#151; the latest in a string of anti-Semitic, racist and hate crime vandalism across the nation, police officials said Wednesday.
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It is no secret that the art market has become drunk with money lately, but $100 million for a diamond skull by the artist Damien Hirst? Even Russian oligarchs and hedge-fund billionaires might think twice.
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Russian authorities say a cancelled London exhibition of major Russian and French artworks should now go ahead.
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Russian authorities have canceled a major exhibition of French and Russian paintings set to open in London in January, fearing authorities could seize the art to settle private legal claims, a Russian museum official said Wednesday.
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A visitor at the Independent Art Festival looks at the painting &quot;Van Gogh - is the favourite painter of Russian President Vladimir Putin&quot; created by Vladimir Kozin at the Manezh showroom in St.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- A Danish-born czarina who left Russia following the overthrow of the monarchy in 1917 was reburied in her adopted homeland yesterday. Many see the czarina's reburial as another step toward post-Soviet Russia's reconciliation with its turbulent past.
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MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION.- The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts presents Masterpieces from the Deutsche Bank Collection.
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For many, the words Russia and nuclear conjure up fear and loathing. But Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom sees only beauty.
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Off-color language by young Russians is proving a money-spinner for authorities in a southern region.
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MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building recently bought by an English family. The artworks had been found wrapped in plastic, and the building's...
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Prices for Russian works of art set a series of new records at auctions in London this week as rich Russians flexed their financial muscles.
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The minimalist work of Dan Flavin and his use of light, as seen at the National Gallery in Washington, has lasted because he is a gifted formalist.