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Floats decorated with flowers is pictured during the flower parade in Lisse, The Netherlands, on April 22, 2017. This year’s theme is Dutch design and De Stijl art movement, which is celebrating its centenary. — AFP photos

Renowned Soviet avant-garde art collection comes to News Bizarre created by Three - to survey the UK to find out Strongman fools viewers which foods they would never eat whilst out on a with no-handed push up date and have found that spaghetti, the notoriously strongman has amazed audiences with his messy meal, has come out on top. Other “out of footage of a no-handed push up - though bounds” dishes that round out the top five include A fellow spaghetti-based nightmare spaghetti car- it was all a fake. The video footage of the bonara, ribs, lobster, and langoustines. unnamed man fooled viewers as he seemingly Furthermore, research showed that a whopping 25 managed to complete impressive one armed percent of people surveyed said they would refuse push-ups and taking it one step further by to order their favorite dish whilst out on a date with attempting to do the impossible and removing a potential partner, and 16 percent said they would both hands from the ground to complete no avoid a dinner date completely because of the armed push-ups. However, at the end of the potential for disaster. Despite two traditional Italian video it is revealed the man doesn’t actually dishes making the top five “out of bounds” foods, have super human strength, and the whole Vladimir Lysenko’s painting “The Bull” is displayed at the exhi- A visitor looks at Alexander Vokov’s Caravan at the exhibition Italian natives topped the list of nationalities Brits video was in fact a fake. Throughout the video, would most like to date, and so Deliveroo and bition of renowned avant-garde collection from the Savitsky of renowned avant-garde collection from the Savitsky State the man’s legs are partially out of shot, raising Wuntu decided to create a virtual dining experience State Art Museum of in , opened in Art Museum. suspicion that there might be something going in order to teach Brits the art of Italian dining. The the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow, Russia. —AP photos on that viewers can’t see. The big reveal comes virtual event, named ‘Milan Upon Thames’, saw at the end of the footage when the camera Milan based food experts virtually sharing a meal ladimir Lysenko’s painted bull stares with able as the works it holds. In the 1950s, painter denounced as “formalists” who valued aesthetics zooms out to show the man laying on a plank with willing Brits, sharing their wisdom and skills in flat black eyes like a double-barrel shot- Igor Savitsky got work in an archaeological over ideology, and some suffered severe repres- of wood balanced like a see-saw. Another man a virtual sitting room environment by the Thames Vgun, one of his horns festooned in a mosa- expedition in Uzbekistan. He became fascinat- sion. Lysenko was arrested in 1935 and although is stood at the other end of the plank, acting as river. Joe Groves from Deliveroo said: “As one of the ic of bright rectangles, the tip of his tail stretched ed by the intricate weavings and elegant pot- he was recorded as showing some paintings in a weight to tip the man up and down on the nation’s favorite cuisines, it’s crazy to see that we toward a glowing orange globe that may be the tery of the local Karakalpak ethnic group and the 1940s, little else is reported of his work. plank, giving the illusion from the ground that avoid Italian when dating. With many dates now sun. Over the years, the painting has become collected their art extensively. Local officials, He is believed to have died sometime in he is completing impressive physical feats. happening at home, we felt it was only right to one of the most renowned images of the artistic flattered by his interest, helped him establish a the 1950s. Alexander Nikolaev, whose “Way of inspire the UK to embrace the food of love in time ferment that bubbled under the strictures of museum in the city of . Life” is the main emblem of the exhibit’s for a budding summer romance.” The two-day virtu- insipid Soviet social realism. But until recently, Savitsky also was concerned about the fate advertising, also was arrested. The painting Weed selling nuns to al dinner experience utilized Three’s Feel at Home anyone who wanted to see it had to travel to an of the works of the ’s more adven- shows a young man in a skullcap staring as if roaming service where you can use your phone isolated, gritty city in Uzbekistan’s desert. turous artists. In the early 20th century, Russia in a trance, against a nearly abstract back- move to Canada because abroad in 42 destinations worldwide, including This month, more than 200 paintings from had been a hotbed of bold art experimental ground of trees and a river. of Donald Trump Italy, at no extra cost. Food for the experience was provided by Italy’s leading restaurant group the Savitsky State Art Museum of movements - Suprematism, Luminism, group of marijuana-selling nuns have said Karakalpakstan went on display at the Pushkin Constructivism - as well as visions too idiosyn- Central government’s attention Rossopomodoro, which offered its authentic AUS president Donald Trump has made them Neapolitan dining experience in both Milan and Museum in Moscow, a rare traveling exhibit cratic to fit into any category. But by the early Savitsky began collecting as much of the think about moving to Canada. The Sisters of the from the gallery widely regarded as having the 1930s, authorities decreed that art must “unofficial” Soviet art as he could, reportedly London. The ‘Milan Upon Thames’ event was open Valley in California call themselves “weed nuns”, from April 19 to April 20. world’s second-best collection of Soviet avant- express Soviet ideals and be comprehensible to filling train sleeping compartments with paint- and sell the substance to help the needy as they garde art. “This exhibition opens completely the average worker. Bold colors, dancing poly- ings to bring them to Nukus, some 2,000 kilo- say they are on a mission to heal and empower new, and not very well researched, layers of art gons and strange faces disappeared from the meters (1,200 miles) from Moscow. Many of the women with their products. However, whilst the A mother sparks outrage after that are linked to the international avant-garde,” public view, replaced by muscular construction works likely would have been destroyed or US president and his Attorney General Jeff changing child’s nappy in public said Pushkin museum director Maria Loshak. workers and children devotedly presenting deteriorated irreparably if he had not been able Sessions, a longtime critic of marijuana legaliza- mother caused a stir after she changed her The show also draws attention to the histo- bouquets to Soviet leader Josef Stalin. to spirit them away to a city far from the central tion, have cast doubt over the legalization of the ry of the Savitsky museum, which is as remark- Artists unwilling to conform were government’s attention. Achild’s nappy on the table in a cafe. A substance, the nuns say they are now planning woman had just enjoyed a little feast with her “He collected works without taking into on moving their business to Canada. Founder of baby and when the time came for her to fresh- consideration whether this was a well-known the group Sister Kate, 58, said: “The thing Trump en up her tiny tot she didn’t think twice about name or not well-known. He collected art with has done for us is put a fire under our butts to laying the tiny tot on the space they had just an orientation on the art itself,” said curator get launched in another country. Our response eaten to change the soiled diaper. However, Irina Kim. The collection’s hometown of Nukus to Trump is Canada.” At present, the group make this sparked outrage with other diners, and has little else to please the eye. By some meas- online sales in Canada, but are planning on mov- another woman told the mother she thought it ures it’s the world’s dustiest city, plagued by ing their operations there full time. The sister- was “a bit grim”. The angered female took to storms of chemical-tainted sand blowing from hood was founded in 2014, and although they Mumsnet to vent her anger at the sight, she the disappearing Aral Sea. The more elegant take on the persona of nuns - something which said: “So, I usually grab something quick and environs of the Pushkin Museum are conducive Sister Kate adopted after she took part in an cheap for lunch but decided to treat myself to a to contemplating the works, and appreciating Occupy Wall Street protest in 2011 dressed as a nice baked spud in an art gallery cafe. “Half way why many of them would offend conformism- Catholic nun - they say they are “against religion”. through said spud, I looked up to see the peo- obsessed Soviet censors. Sister Kate added: “We’re against religion, so ple on the table nearby were changing a baby’s One of Ural Tansykbayev’s works nominally we’re not a religion. We consider ourselves nappy on the table where they’d just eaten. “My celebrates the cotton fields that are Beguine revivalists, and we reach back to pre- face must have been a bit of a picture because one of the women looked at me as if to say Uzbekistan’s mainstay, but the dominant ele- Christian practices. We’ve gotten a few hate calls ment is the nearby road colored vivid purple ‘what?’. “Feeling I had to justify myself, I said ‘it’s but, by and far, the Catholics understand what just that it’s a bit grim changing a baby’s nappy and rising from the bottom of the frame like a we’re doing.” shrouded figure. on a cafe table’. The woman doing the changing Kliment Redko’s painting “Motherhood” asked if I was a mum. Instead of saying ‘what might work as a Soviet-acceptable portrait of a Spaghetti named difference would that make?’, I said I had two peasant and her son, except that the mother is as worst date food children. She said she didn’t realize I was watch- ing. I said it was more of a hygiene thing, but helping the son urinate. “Some of the paintings paghetti has been named as the worst dish to give indelible impressions, which is why I think yes, it had put me off my lunch somewhat. “She Seat whilst on a date. Food delivery service replied that it was ‘only a bit of wee.’” Visitors look at Alexander Vokov’s Caravan at the exhibition of renowned avant-garde this a huge event. Personally, I am in complete Deliveroo has teamed up with rewards app Wuntu - collection from the Savitsky State Art Museum. awe,” said viewer Alla Tiligina. — AP