Stradivarius Cello, owned by his sister, writer Ian Fleming, will go under the hammer

Cello, created the famous craftsman Antonio Stradivari some 300 years ago, will be sold at auction Tarisio in New York in October. The tool that belonged to his sister author of the novels agent 007 Ian Fleming cellist Amarillis Fleming, insured for the amount of 1.4 million pounds or 2.8 million dollars, transmits The Times.

Musical creation is one of 60 cello, created by the great master. The experts call it one of the best instruments Stradivari. It is expected that the upcoming auction unique lot put unprecedented record so far.

Currently, cello most expensive ever sold at auction is also considered to Stradivari creation - a tool called Bonjour. He was sold for 1.3 million dollars at Christie's auction in 1999. For the first time so precious to be sold via Internet auction. Admission rates while starting on 1 October.

Among the most famous owners cello, placed on the New York auction was sister of writer Ian Fleming famous British cellist Amarillis Fleming, having received it as a gift from her beloved Paul Rozenbauma in 1962.

"Hardly any of the individual musicians will be able to purchase this cello. But we hope that becomes a tool or any other investment group or someone from wealthy sponsors to invest in the development of talented musicians," - said auction house representative Jason Price .

It is known that profits from the sale will be directed cello at the Royal Academy of Music.

Paris and province: 25 exhibitions to see

Arts - Major exhibitions traditional

Among the rendezvous of the season in Paris and the provinces: Mantegna at the Louvre, P at the Grand Palais, Emil Nolde in Orsay, Madame de Pompadour in Tours Van Gogh in Marseilles and Japan everywhere in the spotlight.

capital at the time of the Japanese archipelago

OF THE DOCK BRANLY BNF. With more than 1 in 500 visitors daily average from May to August this year for the exhibition of prints by Hokusai, the Guimet Museum reached its historic record of attendance.

Based on this success and through the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Franco-Japanese relations, the institution will continue to refer to the remote island by presenting paintings on sliding partitions from the Shinto sanctuary of Kompira (from October 15 to December 8). Never these fragile treasures are leaving the country.

another first: the discovery of popular crafts the Muse du Branly, or how, before and after the war, while a movement of conservation of traditional forms objects of use was born and grew on both sides of the archipelago. In their simplicity and elegance, these ceramics, these kimonos fiber plant and bamboo furniture express intensely zen ancestral wisdom and foreshadow the most complete design (from September 29 to 11 January 2009).

It will also establish parentage (October 22 to 31 January 2009) the House of Culture of Japan, which the sleek cutlery, watches, teapots, handbags, furniture and office supplies created by the new masters in harmony of the country's rising sun.

Zen spirit also spread inside the Petit Palais with 80 works never before shown in Europe, dating from the twelfth in the eighteenth century, from the funds of major temples Kyoto (twin city over the past half-century Paris).

Le Petit Palais still surprise by revealing 87 drawings of great filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (16 October to 14 December). Otherwise, from September 19, the Cernuschi Museum will open "Splendours of courtesans," a set of incomparable ro and screens of the Idemitsu Museum, which will lend its Rouault (from September 17 to 18 January 2009) and Pollock (from October 15 to 15 February 2009) to the Paris Pinacotheque.

Japan at the BNF with prints selected from its own funds, rich 6 000 references (from November 18 to February 15, 2009).

P , painting in the eye

GRAND PALAIS. There is him and there is everyone else. "P and masters", it could register as a titanic confrontation, a match Homeric as the Minotaur will have ceased, throughout his long career, tapping into museums (our editions of 26 August).

It is feared the too-full with this draft reunion of 210 masterpieces signed Greco, Velasquez, Goya, Zurbaran, Ribera, Melndez, Poussin, Le Nain, Dubois, Chardin, David, Ingres , Courbet, Lautrec, Degas, Puvis de Chavannes, Cezanne, Renoir, Gauguin, the Douanier Rousseau, Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt and Van Gogh - the largest ever made in Paris, "there - which will occupy both Galeries du Grand Palais that the Louvre (with variations on Women of Algiers by Delacroix) and Orsay (with those on the Lunch on the Grass Manet).

But we must reckon with imagination, intelligence and humour P which, far from destroying or have an overwhelming ego, will have ceased to pay tribute to innovative in the dialogue.

There is even is a strong likelihood that his gaze makes us great contemporary old so recognized, installed so that sometimes we do see more (from 8 October to February 2, 2009).

Mantegna, lights and mysteries

LOUVRE. Why are these strings if cowardly linking Saint Sebastian in his column antique? Are there any battles in the clouds as suggested Vinci. What does this warrior pensive amid a bloody melee, questioned Proust. And what are the traits of Averroes in the face of one of its Magi?

issues relating to the work of Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) are inexhaustible and all exciting since they affect both the faith that philosophy. Read Mantegna is read the history of ideas just after Petrarch, when discussing the University of Padua who would give birth to the modern age.

New questions still arise about this master of the Renaissance all that is the subject of a major retrospective (September 26 to 25 January 2009) in the Hall Napoleon, the main temporary exhibition space of the institution. Which, after Italy, has all the most important paintings of this major artist, a master of perspective (not designed to be a vulgar trompe-l' but as a tool metaphysical). A model for Bellini who was his son-in-law, but also for Drer as the aura of the Italian shone from his time beyond borders.

Louvre, will be gathered including the three panels of the altar of San Zeno. And Queen Elizabeth II ready bearers of the vases, a painting that has never left England since 1630.

Emil Nolde, honor the "degenerated"

GRAND PALAIS. First retrospective in France devoted to Emil Nolde (25 September-19 January 2009). It was one of the "stars" of the notorious exhibition of "degenerate art" of the Nazi regime in 1937, which is normal as it remains one of the major representatives of German Expressionism. Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was prolific, the Grand Palais brings together ninety paintings (including the exceptional presence of The Life of Christ Foundation Seebll to Nolde, Germany) and seventy watercolors, engravings and drawings. The color is rough, rude, pure and flat, between Otto Dix and Van Dongen, often in the service of faith expressed in a primitive religiosity any.

Van Dyck, reflecting concern < p> -ANDR Virtuosity, elegance, refinement: after David and Fragonard, the museum offers a retrospective Antoon Van Dyck (1599-1641), this student of Rubens inspired by Titian, who was the favorite portraitist of the court of England ( October 8 to 25 January 2009).

Presented in addition to the funds own, in a staging signed Hubert Le Gall ( "Design against Design", "Melancholy - Genius and madness in the West" or "Edouard Vuillard "Grand Palais), many works of prestigious museums in Europe and the USA come for the first time in France.

An invitation promising therefore to enter into the intimacy and grandeur of the 'England of Stuart. With Van Dyck, the art of pleasing and dazzle is at its peak. But his genius is never to forget the merits of being melancholy, almost pensive gaze, falsely seconded that major aristocrats cover their destiny and the world. Personal and political lines intersecting or s' but for how long? Car in jewelry, silk, velvet, satin and feathers, pointing a concern but some deaf. It is proof of humanism that we called him the "gentleman painter."

THE breakaway northern

LILLE. Between 1870 and 1914, driven by the conservatism of academies Copenhagen, Stockholm and Dusseldorf, many Scandinavian and Finnish artists were joining communities painters settled in Fontainebleau, Barbizon, Gretz-sur-Loing or on the shores of La Mancha .

does not. The French institutions, especially the provincial museums, have always collected and today the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille brings together the best of these funds (from October 10 to 11 January 2009). More than a hundred works of both soft and footprints spleen, including some thirty are from the Musee d'Orsay (Munch, Hammersho, Jansson, Acke, Strindberg). Portraits moving, intimate and familiar scenes, landscapes sea, pristine nature, preferably with a light snow incredibly crystalline ... And as many clocks arrested over a period of time that passes and we did not find ...

delights of Madame de Pompadour

TOURS. Jeanne Antoinette Poisson: this the Court, beginning with Louis XV. "The divine " in the words of Voltaire, was a woman of the Enlightenment. It should not just his dazzling charm, far away. Woman spirit and taste (you can say it has helped invent the "good taste"), Madame de Pompadour protected the arts, which made him quite well, as will demonstrate the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Tours (October 11 to January 12). Libertinage and pleasure of the senses with the program Boucher, Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Van Loo, but also Chardin and Greuze. A nice walk in the imaginary museum of Diderot in perspective.

Van Gogh's friend and Provence

MARSEILLE. He has never met, but for the light of Provence, it was his guide. Van Gogh has watched the canvases of the painter Adolphe Monticelli Marseille (1824-1886). And for the first time forging a dialogue between the two artists, the famous and "regional".

Eighteen paintings of Dutch madman and a form of consecration in the second. "I am sure that I continue his work as if I was his son or his brother, repeating the same cause, living the same life, dying the same death," wrote the first about the second. Landscapes, portraits and flowers, all the colors solar, the cultural centre of the Old Charity (from September 16 to January 11, 2009). A beautiful meeting tanning to face the winter?

Unique video Marilyn Monroe will be sold at auction for a minimum of 20 thousand U.S.

Amateur film with the legendary Marilyn Monroe, which show the working moments filming the movie "In jazz only girl", exhibited at auction in Australia. Tape was recorded in 1959, Fakt News website reported citing Reuters.

According to auctioneers Charles Leski, at , two and a half minutes, shows how an actress, along with Tony Curtis are preparing to stage on the beach, which attracts attention Monroe partner in the shootings.

The list was made of American Navy officer, who invited in the production of paintings, once charming Marilyn visited at its military base in San Diego.

Subsequently, films passed by inheritance to the officer's daughter who lives in Melbourne, Australia. After the death of his father, she decided to give the public a unique frames and sell them at auction.

"Record high for many decades been part of family folklore family, but they simply did not know what to do with it," - Leski explained. However, the value of films for cinema is very great because the color represents recording episode film, which is known only to viewers in black and white.

It is envisaged that a unique record will be sold at auction on September 25. An initial assessment of the lot is 20-30 thousand dollars, while the buyer will receive all commercial rights to its use.

Tales of Bengal, the prince rubies and other c

Tales of Bengal, the prince rubies and other tales
Collects by Lal Behari Day, illustrated by Helene Muller
Issue Nine of the school recreation If it is always a pleasure to discover stories came by the way, with these stories from Bengal will not be disappointed because they surprise us in many ways by their strangeness and their inspiration. If one finds in these tales of kings and queens, princes and princesses, rich and poor, the animals extraordinary powers, we are also in the presence of kings who have several wives, early marriages and arranged a world where many gods mingle the affairs of men. We discover a geography where habits are often different from ours: how to feed, dress, talk. The exuberant nature and a colorful world where gold and ruby shine of their lamps are made for us charmer. These tales seduce the reader by their exotic and sometimes confusing by the beauty of a universe refined, sometimes not devoid of a terrible cruelty. So let us be seduced by the , the little green parakeet who speaks the language of men or follow the adventure of the prince ruby, not to mention the amazing story of the boy marked by the seal of the moon.

These stories, collected in the last century, are an amazing discovery. Transcrits beautiful way with natural and elegance, they mix for our greatest pleasure, malice, wisdom and poetry. A recommend for everyone from 8 years.

Julieta Venegas wins Madrid and with 'pretty' and 'Viva Mexico'

The Mexican singer Julieta Venegas met his' threats' and almost "it melts the weights" to their fans happy at the concert that gave the Wednesday night in Madrid, with themes of his latest disc, and some developments that were paid with long applause and shouts of "beautiful" and "Viva Mexico".

Venegas, composer of many of his songs, began with the recital 'Josh,' one of the themes of his album 'MTV Unplugged' and, with it, began with the public enthusiasm that is not dropped until the end .

Concert was like a "record" in which he played tracks from all your disks, not disappointed, according to the applause, shouts, vocals and accompaniment of clapping with the audience followed his songs.

As promised at a news conference two days ago, the Mexican artist gave a concert, entitled 'The Presente'-in that fourteen musicians accompanied him throughout the twenty subjects who sang in an hour and a half, one of them a duet with a Spanish guest, the singer Vanessa.

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Auditorium Juan Carlos I miss him very little to be filled with Spaniards, Mexicans, Peruvians, Argentines, Bolivians and people from other backgrounds.

For the concert "sound" that had been announced, Venegas and his musicians came on stage with a huge collection of instruments of all kinds: winds, keyboards, a string quartet, percussion, a xylophone, saxophone, maracas, saw, a treble, a four or a banjo.

She played the guitar and sometimes on other occasions he sat on keyboards or grabbed his accordion.

Before starting with the third item, 'Something is changing, "greeted with a" Good night Madrid "and said he was delighted to be back in one of his favorite cities.

Continued with its new theme, 'Illusion', that is-she-said "the last thing that can be lost," followed by 'Slow', 'Look at me either,' 'Amores ' or' Look at Life ', that "celebrates the feminine throughout this planet" and that he was dedicated "to all women."

With Vanessa sang a duet 'You're for me', then remembered to "all those who are ever to a or a 'former' partner 'with the theme' What do I take '.

Moreover, with 'This', and' I'm going, 'one of his most popular songs, Julieta Venegas did sing to the public, which, before the end of the concert, given that the Mexican was, clapped, whistled and shouted without stopping.

But before the greatest thing out, Julieta Venegas returned to the stage and waved "Hello, countrymen" to the compatriots that he shouted "Viva Mexico".

With 'This time' and 'Walk with me', the artist ended his tenure in Madrid.

Reactions to the concert

At the end of the evening, the singer Alaska, of Mexican origin, who was among the audience told the press that he had "enjoyed" with the use that Venegas makes the sound.

"It's something completely different, and therefore, contribute such instruments, some not very usual, but she, who is an expert, get a sample of new melodies and sounds," said the voice of the group Fangoria.

Among the supporters were pretty unanimous about the concert, as expressed in a young Uruguayan Club Fans of Julieta Venegas in Madrid: "It was amazing, unique, wonderful," according to Denis Agustina.

Meanwhile, the president's fan club, the Spanish Carlota Llinares, also said he had been "fabulous", but acknowledged that, "among many tools, the voice of Juliet might be a little lost."

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The black star, Michelle Maillet

With "black star", published by Pocket, Michelle Maillot sign a fiction whose strength comes not only a writing fluid and tense at the same time, but also by the subject that opens a singular view on the camps. Indeed, it has rarely been the question of black people caught in the maelstrom of horror concentration camps. This is what happens to Sidonie and her two children and Nicaie Dsir. Through the fictional character, the author gives visibility to blacks deported. Sidonie, Martinique girl down slaves, follows brilliant studies. A doctor and his women invite the girl to pursue her studies in France. Only in 1943, the situation in the Bordeaux region of the vise closes. Ms. Dubreuil is Jewish. An early morning the couple was arrested. And Sidonie and her two children will be part of the lot. Appalled, Sidonie does not understand. Is not she Catholic? Yes, but she is black enough for the board. In the unspeakable situation of all deportees, Sidonie know the horror of the camps, the death of his daughter, separation from his son, cold, hunger, the worst violence. In his ordeal, it will bind friendships, experience solidarity. But what gives the story its unique character is back on the history of his people. In her family, the question of slavery was taboo. Only his maternal grandparents were talking about. His father, meanwhile, it advice: "Bride who you want but do not back a negro or a coulis, because you n' longer here. Do not forget: there is little time that we came out cursed time of slavery. There is a need for children have a life easier than .Il needs to have "saved the skin." Lyrics hard, and Sidonie too young yet, do not understand why. It was during his experience of deportation that Sidonie appealed to the history of his people, that of slavery. convening, Agenor, a God that s'. This God, she speaks, she implores she confides in him and in this way it "stands". Very beautiful story that depicts a character full of vigour, empathy for others, but also capable of anger, rebellion, small pettiness. The author gives us a true character whose authenticity is its great qualities but also its small defects And then in the hasty departure for the camps, Sidonie has managed to save a small Moleskine notebook black on which it will record what she saw, what she suffered and her companions in misfortune. Thus, the story the first person gives the text its poignant truth. The writing was for it irresistible desire to testify beyond his own death. Michelle Maillet, through his novel, very documented and the world concentration camps and on slavery and its aftermath, gives us a text to read where talent carries the narrative drive. A recommend for everyone from 13 years.

Test Flight Large Hadron Collider has been "technically perfect"

Test launch of the world's largest particle accelerator, which established the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, "was technically flawless." According to the researcher CERN Director Jos Engelen.

On Wednesday at the Large Hadron Collider (BAC) - particle accelerator, built in Switzerland and France - have been consistently implemented two beams of protons start of trial: first clockwise, then in the opposite direction.

The purpose of the trial was to start verification systems to ensure stability trajectory of protons. BUCK - a unique ring design length of 27 km. At the 100 - meter depth in giant ellipse with the help of powerful electromagnets 120 counter-ion beams of protons and lead will be accelerated up to close to light speed (99.9%).

To ensure the experiment electromagnets to work in temperatures close to absolute zero - minus 271.3 degrees Celsius. Thousands of sensors will record the moment of collision, which will allow researchers to better penetrate the secrets of matter.

CERN scientists believe that the experiment will help to replicate in miniature "Big Bang", which is 13.7 billion years ago initiated the universe.

Furthermore, experts expect to obtain new data on the transformation process of matter into energy, and expect that the experiment will help to reveal mysteries of antimatter and the relationship of space and time.

The Director-General of CERN, Professor Robert Eymar test launch accelerator called "a historic event for mankind, which wants to know how and where it goes, and whether the universe is infinite," .

"The official launch of" BAC is scheduled for 21 October. At the ceremony, as expected, along with Swiss President Pascal Couchepin, will attend the Heads of State and Governments of some member countries CERN.

"We will try to maximize speed up experiments on real clash counter-beams of protons," - said the head of "Project BUCK" Lin Evans. He did not call the exact date, but his colleagues say that it may be possible as early as late October.

The first research results are expected to be received no earlier than one year or two, but CERN specialists are confident that they would "fundamentally alter the foundations of particle physics."