Massie has come out with a new book about Catherine the Great. Robert Massie ... architecture and art. Under her leadership, Russia modernized, expanded its empire and became accepted as one ...

Catherine Opie peels back many layers of American society with ... Now UCLA has named Opie the new chair of its Art Department. And a new book is out featuring more than 300 of Opie’s photographs from ...

Yusupov. Simply put, Catherine wanted “the best”, as reflected in her high-profile, controversial purchase of the famous art collections of Pierre Crozat and Robert Walpole in the 1770s.

The art was only an example ... The main source text for this article was Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman (2011), by Robert K Massie, published by Random House. Judith Armstrong will ...

Her early work, inspired partly by photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's examination ... A new exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Catherine Opie: Binding Ties, presents some of these ...

as Robert Massie puts it, “fearful, deceitful, antagonistic, boastful, cowardly, deceptive and cruel”. Preferring anything to the continued company of her mother, Catherine decided to make the ...

The 2023 Cannes Film Festival lineup was officially announced on April 13, but Monday the organization included the last of the entries for competition and non-competition categories, most notably ...