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The First Art Newspaper on the Net   Abraham Bloemarts "Moses Striking the Rock," a painting from 1596 now in its collection. The museum said it had investigated and did not find compelling evidence that Curt Glaser had been forced to sell the painting. Metropolitan Museum of Art via The New York Times. by Catherine Hickley (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- The Nazi authorities removed Curt Glaser from his post as director of the Berlin State Art Library in April 1933 because he was Jewish. He was also ev...

Peter Zinovieff, composer and synthesizer innovator, dies at 88 EMS Synthi AKS. (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Peter Zinovieff, a composer and inventor whose pioneering synthesizers shaped albums by Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Roxy Music and Kraftwerk, died on June 23 in Cambridge, England. He was 88. His death was announced on Twitter by his daughter Sofka Zinovieff, who said he had been hospitalized after a fall. Zinovieff oversaw the design of the first commercially produced British synthesizers. In 196...

Photo source: Municipality of Athens The Municipality of Athens has quite a few plans for the Greek capital in the post-Covid era which include attracting digital nomads, organizing the first Innovation Summit, welcoming international film productions, renovating more public spaces and strengthening its cooperation with international networks to develop the city’s tourism potential, according to Melina Daskalakis “It is important that we are working at all levels to attract business and in...

"This article is a tribute to an artist, musician, wit and kindly host." When Mr. Wood of Bath built Faringdon House, about the middle of the 18th century, his customer was Poet Laureate Pye (generally supposed to have been the worst poet laureate England has ever had and described as eminently respectable in everything but his poetry by Lord Byron who, of course, knew all about respectability). Pye ordered the house to be built, and Pye paid the bill, established himself there, wrote reams of...

ATHENS(Sputnik) - A massive snowstorm has blanketed the north of Greece, cutting off power to large parts of Athens and the suburbs on Tuesday and killing three people.

Sophia Dolgorukova – a princess, pilot and taxi driver Public domain She was a Russian Princess, Catherine the Great’s descendant – and also a driver, a pilot, a nurse and a real hero. In the late 1920s in Paris, a lot of talented Russian emigrants, including, of course, many noblemen, had to make ends meet somehow. And one could accidentally get a taxi ride with writer Gaito Gazdanov as the driver, or even a real Russian Princess – Sophia Dolgorukova, whose ancestry we...