Category: Museums & Exhibits
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Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” returns to Cologny 200 years after its birth

THE weather on Lake Geneva in June 1816 was especially bad — we know what that’s like lately but rather than climate change being the culprit as it is today, a volcanic eruption in faraway Indonesia was to blame for the storms over Europe that Summer. (Well, in fact, the eruption did evoke catastrophic climate…
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Immersed in color: Signac’s sublime art at the Hermitage till 22 May

WHEN it comes to art all you need say is “impressionist” for me to come running. Add an exhibition space in an elegant, 19th-century villa set in a wooded park with the French Alps as a distant backdrop and you’d best not get in my way as I come through. You might have guessed that I’m describing…
