I am often asked what to buy on the contemporary art market

I am often asked what to buy on the contemporary art market.
My answer: I prefer realism. And at the VLADEY auction on Saturday, 11 June, there will be plenty of contemporary realism. The team has assembled canvases featuring Alexey Azarov's riot policemen, for whom "things are not so clear-cut", Natalia Zhernovskaya's Soviet Antiquity, Konstantin Kotenkov's arrival of the cosmic negotiators at the Kremlin, Vladimir Logutov's Meetings with Brodsky, Konstantin Latyshev's Vnatura [Honestly], Yegor Koshelev's Sawing [The Kickback] and much else besides. All these artists wish their collectors happiness. They are little suns and paws. And I shall do everything I can to see that you buy good art. Register for the bidding, and I shall see you on the list of buyers.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

I am often asked what to buy on the contemporary art market

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s