Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev was a Russian ballet dancer.
Richard Sharpe Shaver
Richard Sharpe Shaver achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories which were printed in science fiction magazines wherein Shaver claimed that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that lived in caverns under the earth. The controversy stemmed from the fact that Shaver and his editor/publisher Ray Palmer claimed Shaver's writings, while presented in the guise of fiction, were fundamentally true.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian Bengali polymath. Had he been born in the West he would now be as revered as Shakespeare and Goethe, according to Ravi Shankar.
Revolver Photographique
The Revolver Photographique was manufactured in Paris, France in 1862. Brass pistol-shaped camera with scope, wooden pistol grip, but no barrel - the camera takes four 23mm diameter exposures in rapid succession on a 7.5 cm circular wet plate. Developed as one of the first sequential cameras to shoot planetary movements, the camera is seen as the precursor to the movie camera.
Ruote Borrani
Hand-made by Italian craftsman, Borrani rims gained popularity in the 1920s and have become known as the gold standard of wire wheels worldwide.
Charles Ray’s Ink Line
Ink Line is a sculpture consisting of a stream of jet-black ink pouring from a dime-size hole in the ceiling into a dime-size hole in the floor. Initially, Ink Line looks like a strand of yarn strung the height of the gallery. Get close and you’ll realize the line is liquid, glimmering, the consistency of syrup, moving fairly fast, fluctuating slightly, and thinner at the bottom than at the top. The ink forms a weird climatological aura around itself, slightly changing the humidity of the room.
Riva Aquariva Super
Riva Aquariva Super has been the ultimate symbol of glamour and style since it launched more than half a century ago.
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is a painter.
Roland Rainer
Roland Rainer was an architect and furniture designer.
Rosemary Brown
Rosemary Brown was a spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her. She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by claiming to produce works dictated to her by Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven.