Epic Iran exhibition launches in London despite sanctions setbacks
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Mikhail Piotrovsky
Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, has responded to claims made by the London art dealer Andre Ruzhnikov that an exhibition held recently at the Winter Palace, Fabergé, Jeweller to the Imperial Court (closed 14 March), allegedly includes a number of “tawdry fakes”.
“Any exhibition at the Hermitage Museum is a research project. Technical analysis of the objects on display is part of the Hermitage’s Fabergé research programme. It is being carried out with the owners’ consent. The results of these studies and of panel discussions are to be published later,“ Hermitage Museum’s director Mikhail Piotrovsky told our sister publication The Art Newspaper Russia.
The Book of the Tree - how artists have been drawn to the calm and beauty of the arboreal Angus Hyland,Kendra Wilson and Nancy Durrant
People who love trees assume that others share this understanding, yet most of us remain unenlightened. The term ‘tree-hugger’ is always derogative, when really we would all benefit from planting more trees to hug. In the 1957 film Funny Face, Audrey Hepburn’s naive and dreamy character is eccentric enough to care more about trees than about clothes. “Trees are beautiful. Why don’t you photograph trees?” she asks. The character played by Fred Astaire, a fashion photographer, responds that his career depends on supply and demand: “You’d be amazed at how small the demand is for pictures of trees.”