Art · Observations · People
Every human being, every member of the human family, bears responsibility for the peace of the whole world. No one has the right to cast off the lofty and beautiful duty of creating good. No one has the right to burn Joan of Arc. Who has been given the right
Archive · Architecture · Books · Moscow · Museums · Science
The Pushkin Museum has summed up the results of the "Moscow Vitruvius" project. At the centre of attention of art historians, bibliographers, historians, palaeographers and even graphologists was a rare folio: an edition of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's treatise Ten Books on Architecture, printed in Venice in
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Museums
Where to go: a selection of Moscow exhibitions worth visiting this week. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "Krasnopevtsev. The Balance of the Unequal" at the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art on Maroseika, until 1 February 📌 The exhibition "New Gothic" at the HSE ART GALLERY in the
Geography · Science · Society
For the past several decades this has been one of the key and most contentious themes of the Arctic dialogue. And now, in connection with the discussions about Greenland, the ridge that divides the Eurasian and Amerasian parts of the Arctic Ocean basin is again being talked about. The limits
Art · Books
You called my likeness out of stone, You breathed God's fire into it. My double, He is alien to me, other and yet alike. Here he stands, clear and stern, And his featurelessness frightens me: Some god Revealed in the primordial stone. Literal translation Maximilian Voloshin, 1911
Archive · Architecture · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. To mark the centenary, the exhibition Paris 1925 has opened at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in the Trocadéro, in
Art · Museums · Paris
The Triumphal Dance of Pallas Athena. Carlo Sarrabezolles, 1925. Paris, National Museum of French Monuments
Moscow · Observations · People
On the desk lies a note with a quotation from Romain Rolland: All the joy of life lies in creation; to create is to kill death
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Archive · Science · People · Nature
Mikhail Yakovlevich Volkov, Taxidermist of the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve. Most likely with the frame for a future figure of a tiger: the reserve is, after all, one of the world's principal centres for the study and protection of the Amur tiger Primorsky Krai, 1960s
Archive · Books · Mores · People
25 January. Fell in love, or imagined that I had, was at a party and lost my head. Bought a horse that I have no need of whatsoever. Rules. Never offer any price for a thing one does not need. On entering a ball, at once ask someone to dance
Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Heritage
The tower of the monastery at which the first English expedition, led by Richard Chancellor, landed in the sixteenth century. The only wooden structure of the Nikolo-Korelsky Monastery to have survived to our day stands in Moscow, on the grounds of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve. The monastery, at the