Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he doesn’t believe it is the right time for elections as debate intensifies on holding a vote in 2024 while the country fights against Russia’s invasion. Issued on: 06/11/2023 – 23:15Modified: 06/11/2023 – 23:14 2 min All elections including the presidential vote set to take
Chaumet, the French luxury jewelry house’s airy workshop in Paris, overlooks Trajan’s column in the center of Place Vendôme. The jeweler that made pieces for Josefina Bonaparte, Eugenia de Montijo and Olga Picasso, has its artisans hard at work creating a tiara for a young and wealthy Chinese entrepreneur. That’s all we know about this
A Russian airstrike on the strategic Black Sea port of Odesa wounded at least eight people on Sunday night and damaged one of the city’s major art institutions, Odesa officials reported. According to a statement from Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, a missile launched by Russia caused significant damage to the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, one of
Sara Shamma: Bold Spirits9 September 2023 – 25 February 2024Dulwich Picture GalleryGallery RoadLondon SE21 7AD Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Bold Spirits, a new body of work by the renowned artist Sara Shamma, responding to specific paintings from the Gallery’s historic collection. For this display, Shamma has focused on the female figures in the collection, channelling
This month’s column brings an original kerosene lantern from an American LaFrance Fire Engine found at an estate sale and a favorite basket from a reader’s art glass collection. Well-cared-for family keepsakes including a framed print, a child’s sewing machine, and a cookie jar handed down are also shared for investigation. Singer sewing machine A
My efforts over the last year have been dominated by my attempt to decarbonise our heating. Domestic heating accounts for close to 15% of carbon emissions in the UK and is dominated by fossil fuels, mainly gas. Replacing gas boilers by heat-pumps is core to the strategy of many European governments, including ours here in
PARIS — The days when Khadija served copious ribs of beef and bottles of fine wine to executives in suits feel like ancient history. The restaurant, located in “Les Quatre Temps” shopping center in the La Défense district near Paris, has had to adapt to a radically new world. “We have removed all the meats
When: Sunday, November 12, 202312:00 PM – 5:00 PM CT Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 Evanston map it Audience: Faculty/Staff – Student – Public – Post Docs/Docs – Graduate Students Cost: Free and Open to All Contact: Lindsay Bosch Group: Block Museum Exhibitions Category: Fine
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) has filed an appeal against the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to suspend its membership. The Russian Olympic Committee was banned with immediate effect on Oct 12 for recognising regional organisations from four territories annexed from Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee said. The IOC added the ROC would
The city’s pleasures, after all, include more than 700 types of beer, the best frites in the world, and even a chocolate dream like presentation box of three flavours of cocoa powder “to shoot up your nose for a non-addictive jolt to maximise the chocolate experience”. It’s a capital of cool, cutting-edge creativity, hot fashion,