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Odessa based Barbie doll Alina Kovalevskaya

Barbie doll Alina Kovalevskaya
20 year-old Alina Kovalevskaya lives in Odessa, the Ukraine. Immediately after Lukyanova, Shpagina, Barbie virus infected new dolls from Odessa. Noteworthy, the number of Odessa Barbie dolls exceeded to more than seven! These barbie girls are just beginning to climb up to their puppet Olympic glory. However, because the girls do not differ, it’s hard to determine the winner. Meanwhile, Odessa Barbie doll Alina Kovalevskaya not only imitates 28-year-old Amatue in her manners, communication and style of clothing. Also, she even makes the photos in the same places where Odessa Barbie Lukyanova used to pose. According to Alina Kovalevskaya, she practices vegan life.
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Natalia Goncharova Between East and West exhibition

Natalia Goncharova Between East and West exhibition

The exhibition, devoted to the work of one of the major figures in the Russian avant-garde – Natalia Goncharova, opened in The State Tretyakov Gallery October 16, 2013. The exhibition, with the support of VOGUE, presents the works created between 1907-1959 and features different periods of Goncharova: Russian, French, and a period devoted to experimenting with new art forms (cubism, Rayonism, futurism, abstract composition). Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) – one of the most famous representatives of the Russian avant-garde, as well as the most expensive Russian artist.
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The Titanic violin sold at auction for 2 million dollars

The Titanic violin sold at auction for 2 million dollars

Yesterday, the most important and probably the most valuable artifact relating to the Titanic – Wallace Hartley’s violin was sold at auction for about 2 million dollars to a British Titanic ‘connoisseur’. The violin was a gift from Hartley’s fiancee Maria Robinson, it had an inscription ‘For WALLACE on the occasion of our engagement from MARIA’. The instrument used by Wallace Hartley was thought by some to have been lost in the Atlantic in the 1912 disaster. But in 2006 the son of an amateur musician found it in an attic, complete with a silver plate showing its provenance. After seven years of testing, costing tens of thousands of pounds, the water-stained violin has now been proven to be the one played by Hartley. The rosewood violin is incredibly well-preserved despite its age and it being exposed to the sea.
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Bad art Museum. Mana Lisa by Anonymous. A cross-gender interpretation of the da Vinci classic

Bad art Museum permanent collection includes about 500 works of art, which are too bad to be ignored. American private Museum of bad art (MOBA) was founded 20 years ago, in the fall of 1993, by the antique dealer Scott Wilson. Once he showed a painting found in the piles of rubbish, and some of his friends offered to build a collection. The museum statement is “to celebrate the works of the artists whose work has not been evaluated in any other museum”. MOBA presented its first show in March 1994, and the response was overwhelming. Since then, MOBA’s collection and ambitions have grown exponentially. Initially, MOBA was housed in the basement of a private home in Boston. Now it has three offices, one in Dedham (suburb to the north-west of Boston), Massachusetts, the other in a nearby Somerville, a suburb north of Boston, and the third branch in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Vladimir Kolesnikov fabulous sculptures of concrete

Vladimir Kolesnikov fabulous sculptures of concrete.
The talented Soviet sculptor and painter Vladimir Kolesnikov has created a series of beautiful sculptural compositions and small architectural forms in different parts of Russia and Ukraine. Fairy-tale characters made of concrete, adorn the parks and gardens of cities and towns, parks and public gardens, private homes and cottages. Artworks by 57-year-old artist Kolesnikov radiate positive energy, pleasing to the eye of visitors and passers-by, giving joy and aesthetic pleasure to all who see his work. Kolesnikov has extensive experience in sculpture. Even as a 14-year-old teenager, he tried his hand in wood carving, and the passion for sculpting has never stopped since then. At the age of 23, Vladimir Kolesnikov founded his small business “Centaurus”. Wizards led by Kolesnikov ae engaged in landscape design, small architecture, decorating children’s parks and gardens, villas and houses with fabulous and funny characters. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Kolesnikov established his family business “Kolesnikov workshop”, where he works today. Vladimir Kolesnikov now lives in the Ukraine, often working in Russia.
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Figure of fear, the flask shows a human face wearing a peacock headdress. Beyond El Dorado exhibition in the British Museum

Beyond El Dorado exhibition
Held 17 October 2013 – 23 March 2014 in the British Museum, the spectacular collection features power and gold of ancient Colombia. Colombian treasures include dramatic and technically sophisticated works of art, which can be found nowhere else in the world. The collections of the Museo del Oro in Bogota contain 150 gold masterpieces, including tiny votive figures, decorative nose rings, vessels, pectorals and masks. The legend of the lost city of gold fascinated European explorers for over two centuries. Spiritual leaders used gold objects for healing, divination and guidance in the dangerous mystical ‘soul journey’. The importance of gold marks the threshold between the living and the dead; and the legacy of pre-Hispanic traditions in the northern Andes.
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Hair & Jewel recreation. Graff Diamonds jewelry hairstyle

Graff Diamonds jewelry

The famous British jeweler and founder of Graff Diamonds jewelry brand Laurence Graff introduced to fans the most expensive luxury “jewelry” hairstyle in the world. The unique creation of hair stylists and jewelers of Graff Diamonds house called «Hair & Jewel» is worth $ 500 million. On his 60-year anniversary in the career of a goldsmith, he had chosen to recreate the legendary image of Hair and Jewelry (Hair and Jewel) of the 70s. Represented by a model with an ornate hairstyle of diamonds and other precious stones, it valued at $ 1 million. This time the 75-year-old jeweler has created a hairstyle with diamonds and precious stones worth 500 million dollars.
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Natural wonder – Seven-colored bird Paradise Tanager

Beautiful seven-colored bird Paradise Tanager
At home, in tropical rain forests to the east and north of the Amazon basin, Paradise Tanager (Latin: Tangara Chilensis) is more commonly known as the “seven-colored bird”. And this perfectly matches its bright plumage shimmering with different shades. Nature, painting feathers of a paradise Tanagra was generous for colors. A head decorated with light green, almost neon feathers, belly – dark, turning into turquoise, tail and wings draw attention with fantastic yellow. Lower back of paradise Tanagra has bright-red color, and the upper part of the wings and tail – black.
Externally, males and females of paradise Tanagra do not differ from each other and to determine which of them is male or female is possible by observing their behavior – males are more melodious and, of course, do not lay eggs.
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The waist plate. Saka culture, V-IV centuries BC. Ancient Siberian jewelry

Ancient Siberian jewelry
Undoubtedly, ancient Culture is incomprehensible and attractive. Secrets of ancient arts and culture continue to be of great interest, surprise and delight for our contemporaries. Works of art and material culture reflect the spiritual culture of the people, who didn’t have written language, but managed to bring their world, the understanding of the world in the “animal style” art, which affected the living world around them and the nature of the animal “kingdom” in the dynamics of combat, hunting, battles. The first information about the excavations of burial mounds (“bumps”) in Siberia appeared in 1669: “Around the Iset and in circumference thereof Russian Tatar people dig gold and silver objects and utensils out of the graves or cemeteries.”
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