Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the state’s needs and interests. What’s been lost?

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Then one day, he showed up with a huge landscape painting as repayment to Mr Ashman, who didn't want to accept it. But Hackman insisted and said a painting for eggs is "a very fair deal".

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“Northern Lights,” now open at the Beyeler Foundation, features 74 landscape paintings by Scandinavian and Canadian artists, all made between 1888 and 1937. View from Pyynikki Ridge, Helmi ...