Nureyev Collection Finds A Home

The New York Times tells us: ‘Like his fabled appetites for dance and sex, Rudolf Nureyev’s hunger for collecting was insatiable…It has taken the 20 years since Nureyev’s death from AIDS in 1993, but the new Nureyev Collection, which opened in October at the Centre National du Costume de Scène, the theatrical costume museum in the Auvergne region of France, has turned out to be the “lieu de memoire,” or “place of memory,” that Nureyev requested in his will.

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