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© Composite: Reuters; Getty Images
© Composite: Reuters; Getty Images
How did thieves pull off robbery of Antonello da Messina’s 15th-century masterpiece – and why did they leave part of it behind?
At about 8.47pm on the evening of 15 August, while tens of thousands of worshippers filled the streets of central Messina for a religious festival, at least two men cut through the fencing surrounding the regional museum, located a few miles to the north on the outskirts of the Sicilian harbour city.
Capitalising on the fact that the streets around the museum were unusually quiet, the men forced open a side door with a crowbar, gaining direct access to a display case containing the five surviving panels of the Renaissance master Antonello da Messina’s polyptych Polittico di San Gregorio, his most important work, and a small double-sided painting. Undisturbed, they removed the works from the building and fled.
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© Photograph: Museo Regionale Accascina Messina/Reuters
© Photograph: Museo Regionale Accascina Messina/Reuters
© Photograph: Museo Regionale Accascina Messina/Reuters
Stavroula Adameitis, AKA Frida Las Vegas, is an Adelaide-based artist and designer known for her camp, pop art aesthetic. A typical work might feature palm trees, poodles, Greek pillars or bin chickens (Australian white ibises), sometimes all at once. Does it veer into kitsch? ‘I hope so,’ she says. ‘Nostalgia, colour and fun can be very energising, and the feeling we get from these objects in popular culture binds us together.’
The term kitsch comes from the German verkitschen, meaning ‘to cheapen’. In the 19th century it was deployed by elites to look down on the supposedly trashy vulgarity of art for the masses. ‘The idea still carries negative connotations,’ says Adameitis. In her new book, she invites us to stop sneering and start relishing Australia’s unparalleled genius for kitsch: ‘Good kitsch laughs with you not at you. It brings people along for the ride.’
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© Photograph: Eamon Donnelly
© Photograph: Eamon Donnelly
© Photograph: Eamon Donnelly
A family day in a Florida back yard was the setting for a summertime memory it would be impossible to recreate
Trace Meek is abundantly proud of his Florida back yard. For the last 10 years, he and his wife, Lauren, have worked diligently on it. “It’s our happy place,” he says. “We live in Belleair Bluffs, and I’ve watched my son and daughter grow up playing in the dirt under our giant oak trees, swinging on the tree swing, riding their bikes and scooters on the circular path, and swimming in our pool. It’s big, with a really deep end and three water fountains that shoot over the top. We like to have a last jump into the pool before bed and, best of all, there are no iPads or TVs.”
The family had friends visiting for 4 July celebrations when Meek took this photo on his phone. There were six adults, six children and two dogs present. Harvey, a braque français, is pictured here on Lauren’s lap.
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© Photograph: Trace Meek
© Photograph: Trace Meek
© Photograph: Trace Meek
The Nepal-Tibet flood disaster, Russian strikes in Kyiv, Israeli settlers in the West Bank and tributes to Dolly Parton – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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© Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
© Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
© Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
The British Museum’s landmark cultural exchange is a symbol of post-Brexit rapprochement between Britain and France
“Harold Rex interfectus est”: King Harold is killed. As every British schoolchild knows, the Bayeux tapestry depicts a turning point in the history of these islands: defeat at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, which would lead to the ascent of William the Conqueror to the English throne. Its return to the UK for the first time in nearly 1,000 years is being hailed as a hugely historic moment in its own right. The loan of the tapestry (technically an embroidery of wool on linen) to the British Museum in exchange for UK treasures from Sutton Hoo is the ultimate manifestation of soft power – a 70-metre symbol of post-Brexit Anglo-French rapprochement in comic-strip form.
Ticket sales for the exhibition, which opens on 10 September, were the biggest in a single day in the museum’s history, with online queues of 80,000. Radio 4 is devoting a day of special broadcasts to mark the arrival of the tapestry, including a new drama with verse from the poet laureate Simon Armitage. The museum’s videos explaining this tale of ambition, friendship, betrayal and revenge are fittingly narrated by Traitors presenter Claudia Winkleman. Norman-mania is here.
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© Photograph: Ardee Napolitano/Reuters
© Photograph: Ardee Napolitano/Reuters
© Photograph: Ardee Napolitano/Reuters
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Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours
Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum in Vienna and once belonged to Egyptian royalty.
Authorities in the capital released pictures of the suspects captured by security cameras during the heist at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), amid a rash of spectacular smash-and-grab thefts from European cultural institutions.
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© Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images
Police hunt two suspects after historic 200-carat piece is snatched from Austrian museum during opening hours
Austrian police are hunting two men alleged to have stolen a 200-carat platinum necklace encrusted with 673 diamonds that was on loan to a museum in Vienna and once belonged to Egyptian royalty.
Authorities in the capital released pictures of the suspects captured by security cameras during the heist at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), amid a rash of spectacular smash-and-grab thefts from European cultural institutions.
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© Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images
© Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images
Привет, Хабр!
На связи Андрей, продуктовый дизайнер Garage Eight.
В августе было много обновлений: у Instagram обновился логотип, у Uber — система иконок, Figma осваивала скиллы и ластик, а бренды выкатывали свежие айдентики и спецпроекты. Остальные находки месяца — ниже.
1. Новый логотип Instagram
2. Система иконок Uber
3. Айдентика Берлинского музея
4. Skills внутри Figma
5. Фигластик
6. Ребрендинг и новая упаковка для Индилайта
7. Cifrovoy rubel
8. Big Walk
9. ЦвеТ-очки
10. Mac Mini + Mac Studio Update
Погнали!
Каждый раз, когда верстаешь новый проект, лендинг или дэшборд, Дизайнер просит поставить на плашки ссылки со свежими логотипами сервисов, соцсетей или технологического стека. Начинается отдельная каста разработки и дизайна: найди официальный брендбук, вытащи оттуда SVG (Не факт что он там будет) или иди на сторонние агрегаторы, где половина файлов кривые, а скачивание запрятано за скрытой рекламой "Скачать Яндекс". Когда мне это полностью надоело я создал свой сервис - ГдеИконка (GdeIkonka)
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