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British Social Season: the main social events of summer 2024

Glyndebourne Opera Festival Where: Glyndebourne, New Rd, Lewes BN8 5UUWhen: May 16 to August 25Tickets at link . The Glyndebourne…

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Sinatra, Boleyn and witches: 11 new productions for theater hedonists

Sinatra: The Musical. June 3, 2026 - April 10, 2027Aldwych Theatre New Year's Eve, 1942. The young singer is about…

7 days ago

Andrey Zvyagintsev: To Kill the Minotaur. First impressions after the festival screening in Cannes

Andrey Zvyagintsev attends the arrival ceremony for the screening of the film "Minotaure" in competition at the 79th Cannes Film…

2 weeks ago

May on the Croisette: Zvyagintsev, Almodovar, Balagov and other major Cannes premieres

Overall, the Cannes 2026 program looks a bit nervous. French publications write about war, European anxiety, identity crisis and fear…

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How important it is to be happy. Auguste Renoir at the Musée d’Orsay

Auguste Renoir. "Breakfast of rowers," 1880-1881. At the Musée d'Orsay - exhibition "Renoir and love. Happy Modernity." It is extremely…

4 weeks ago

The Kinetics of Thought: In the London Studio of Sasan Sahafi

Sasan Sahafi It is located within an arts cluster on the fourth floor, where bright, open studios of designers and…

1 month ago

Venice Biennale: a guide to the national pavilions of 2026

ANISH KAPUR, "At the Edge of the World II," 1998. Photo: DAVID STEERNHOLM The primordial function of art: the meaning…

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“Double Outsider”: in the London studio of artist Pavel Otdelnov

Photographer: Valya Korabelnikova. A short train ride from the center of London, an almost mundane route, one of those that…

2 months ago

Elsa Schiaparelli. What to wear before the end of the world?

Backstage at the Schiaparelli show. Haute Couture Spring-Summer 2026, Paris. He'd probably look good in a soutane. He's got the…

2 months ago

Watercolor diary: workshop of Polina Egorushkina

Polina Egorushkina in the workshop. Photographer: Kate Kantur. Pauline's studio is located on a street between respectable Regent's Park and…

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