Preview of the From Russia exhibition
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The long-anticipated and controversial show opens on Saturday January 26 at the Royal Academy, bringing together an eclectic collection of European masterpieces and Russian works
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The sixth annual meeting of the Baltic Forum opens in Hamburg on Sunday. Relations will Russia will be an item on the agenda.
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Amputation saws, sex aids and works of art by Leonardo da Vinci and Andy Warhol are among the items on display at a new medical museum previewed in London Wednesday.
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The Americans will play host to defending champion Russia from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2 in a city that will be announced later this week but appears likely to be Portland, Ore.
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Hereâs an apt attraction for the start of the new year: âThe Art of Timeâ at the Metropolitan Museum, a wonderful presentation of about 90 European timepieces from the museumâs permanent collection.
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The 2004 Collector trade fair will be held Sept. 10-12 at the Prague Exhibition Ground in the Czech Republic.
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Russia's culture minister on Wednesday said new British laws providing legal immunity for some contested artworks would clear the way for a planned exhibit of Russian art in London next month.
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Descendants of two prominent czarist-era art collectors demanded compensation as a major exhibition of Russian art was previewed on Tuesday at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Bloomberg News reported. The descendants, AndrÃ©-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud, grandson of Sergei Shchukin, and Pierre Konowaloff, great-grandson of Ivan Morosov, did not seek the return of paintings. Instead, they asserted a moral right to a portion of the proceeds from the show, to open on Saturday. A spokeswoman for the Russian Federal Agency of Culture and Cinematography declined to comment. Fears of legal claims to some of the 120 works in the show, âFrom Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 From Moscow and St. Petersburgâ cast doubt over the exhibition for several weeks until Britain satisfied Russia that the paintings, including art by Gauguin, Kandinsky and van Gogh, would be returned after it ends on April 18.
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An exhibition of some of the world's greatest drawings from the past 500 years is opening in Edinburgh.
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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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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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An exhibition of papal portraits from the Renaissance to Pope John Paul II will open in Rome at the end of this month, the organisers announced.
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Artist David Hockney will unveil the largest picture of his career at London's Royal Academy.
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Playbill - The Sept. 8 first performance of The Russian National Postal Service, a U.S. premiere, kicks off a special series of Russian-themed works at The Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C.
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People who have been inspired by the current Michael Rowe exhibition at Aberdeen Art Gallery are being offered the chance to create their own unique piece of jewellery or artwork.
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