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Alexandr Radayev
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Boris Johnson: a wicked fairy does not exist, they said; Boris Johnson: the wicked fairy will do you no harm
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Five December exhibitions, from Soviet-era icons to Chagall and the Arctic
The customary round-up of exhibitions in Moscow's galleries and museums. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Icons of the Soviet Period” at the Izmailovo estate, until 22 December 📌 10 December: opening of the exhibition “George Cohen. Theory of Shadow” at the pop/off/art gallery, until 23 January 📌 Solo
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Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz masterfully creates a double memorial portrait of his late mother and father, depicting his father, himself an artist, painting a portrait of his mother
Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz masterfully creates a double memorial portrait of his late mother and father, depicting his father, himself an artist, painting a portrait of his mother. Both his parents look out at us from 1550. Collection of the Toledo Museum of Art
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Georges Jacob's Chair from Marie Antoinette's Boudoir to Be Offered at Sotheby's
Sotheby's is to offer a boudoir chair made for Marie Antoinette by Georges Jacob. A magnificent piece of work and, above all, astonishingly untouched by time
Art · Observations · Society · People
Everywhere art criticism is in decline, intellectually corrupted, mired in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctness and, alarmingly, addressed only to other critics and their like
The English art critic Brian Sewell
Archive · Education · Society · Saint Petersburg · Humour
Latin in Soviet schools from 1948 as recalled by the historian Mark Botvinnik
Homo homini amicus, collega et frater est: Man Is to Man a Friend, Comrade and Brother. The historian of antiquity Mark Naumovich Botvinnik (1917-1994) recalls Stalin's post-war reforms as an attempt by an ageing leader to bring back the feeling of youth. Old people begin to
Art · Observations · People
Much like us, only without the telephones
Martin Parr (1952-2025)
NB! · Archive · The East · Art · Museums
Four surviving Delacroix notebooks from his 1832 journey to Morocco
Eugène Delacroix's album and notes from his journey to Morocco in 1832. Delacroix brought back from Morocco 800 sheets of sketches and seven notebooks making up the diary of his travels, of which only four have survived: three are kept in the Louvre, and one in the Musée
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The Infant Jesus Knocks at a Woman's Heart
Archive · Faith · Ethnography
Bear Games of the Mansi and Khanty in a photo with rooster and cuckoo costumes
The Theatrical Performance of the Bear Games "The Cuckoo and the Cock" in 1936. The bear games are an ancient ritual of the Mansi and Khanty peoples, devoted to the cult of the bear, a sacred animal regarded as the brother and son of the supreme deity. In
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Contemporary art collection on display and the exhibition projects of the Garage museum
I almost forgot to share pictures from the new open storage display at the Garage Museum. Little by little we are learning what exactly one of the finest collections of contemporary art in the country looks like. There is much that one will not see in the New Tretyakov, for