Day: May 15, 2018

Modigliani’s “Reclining Nude” was sold at auction in new York for $157.2 million NEW YORK, may 15. /TASS/. Painting “Reclining Nude” (Nu couche (sur le cote gauche), 1917) painted by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) on Monday sold for a record $157.2 million at auction in new York. This was reported by the auction house Sotheby’s is staging the auction devoted to impressionist and modern art. “A masterpiece of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1917 “Reclining Nude” sold for $ 157.2 million — the highest auction price in the history of Sotheby’s”, — stated in the message of the auction house on Twitter. The name of the buyer is not called. Estimated value of the lot was $150 million, which also was the highest estimate among all the works of art ever exhibited at this auction. The picture reaching diagonally 147 cm, part of a series of 22 paintings, which can be seen

The third world war will not be, says the Dalai Lama DHARAMSALA, may 15 — RIA Novosti, Olga Lipic. The third world war will not be, says the Dalai Lama. About this spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, prevalent in Russia, said in an interview with RIA Novosti following the meeting with leading Russian scientists in his residence in the North Indian town of Dharamsala. “I think not,” said the Dalai Lama in response to the question about the possibility of the Third world in connection with rising geopolitical tensions in the world, including between Russia and the United States. According to him, in the event of a nuclear war killed all life on the planet, so everyone’s “need to rely on common sense and broad minded thinking.” The Buddhist leader also noted that in today’s world, all seven billion people depend on each other. “Russia needs Western world and in

Historians were left without “Democracy” In Russia stopped the work of the international Foundation “Democracy”, created in 1993, former member of the Politburo, one of the ideologists of perestroika, Alexander Yakovlev. The Foundation has published the collections a unique Soviet documents. The organization closed because of lack of funds: “Democracy” refused foreign funding, “not be considered an agent”. Employees for six months he worked without a salary, but the last straw was the termination of free rent which was provided to Fund President Boris Yeltsin. The closure of the Fund “b” told the President Natalia Usacka. “Unfortunately, we failed to find a permanent source of funding, she said.— Now the Fund is in liquidation. We have been forced to deny authors who planned to be published with us.” We will remind, the international Fund “Democracy” was established in 1993 on the initiative of the former member of the Politburo of

Lars von Trier presented at the Cannes festival a new film CANNES, may 15 — RIA Novosti. Danish Director Lars von Trier after a seven year break, presented at the Cannes film festival his new film “the House that Jack built”, the correspondent of RIA Novosti. On the red carpet with the film were Matt Dillon, Shiwan Fallon, Riley Kio, Sophie Grobel and Bruno Ganz. In 2011, Trier was declared “persona non grata” at the Cannes festival. During the press conference of his movie “Melancholia”, which participated in the main program of the competition, Trier inadvertently spoke about his sympathy for Adolf Hitler. This did not prevent the jury present the award for best actress American actress Kirsten dunst, however, badly tarnished the relationship of organizers with von Trier. Seven years later, Cannes is ready to accept the controversial Director back. The film “the House that Jack built” tells the