My last remaining nerve cell, in the form of a falling column from the Colonnade grove at Versailles, reminds us of our regular feature, where for the third year running we have been planning the week's leisure in Moscow and other cultured cities

🌆On 21 April the Art Moscow fair opens, in case anyone still has money left for art.

🧱From 21 April the Shchusev Museum of Architecture is showing the paintings of Nadezhda Krestinina

👑From 21 April to 5 July the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts continues its 25-year tradition of projects on outstanding dynasties of collectors with the exhibition "The Princes Baryatinsky. Art for the Heirs"

🚂From 22 April you can see the final project of 13 artists of the Winzavod Open Studios at the exhibition "You Have Reached Your Destination"

🏛From 23 April you can visit the exhibition "Artists and Photography" at the Bèton Centre for Visual Culture

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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

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

Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026

Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026. A rock-and-ice avalanche broke away that day from the northern slope of Langtang Lirung and turned into a debris flow,

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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

Analyst Arvind Kumar and Him Lal Gautam, Chief Surveyor of Nepal's Department of Survey, have published an article on the Himalayan flood of 26 August 2026