A Modest Cultural Programme for the Coming Weeks in Moscow

Vasily Polenov, Ilya Repin, Isaac Levitan, Kazimir Malevich, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Leon Bakst and Konstantin Somov, all fitting into a matchbox or a school pencil case? The Jewish Museum is showing miniature art, so rarely exhibited in the "big" museums: from sketches and studies to independent tiny works by the greatest artists, it can be seen until 5 September.

The State Historical Museum has two interesting projects at once: the much-talked-about exhibition of 140 engravings by Dürer and the newly opened Vikings. Both decidedly deserve attention, so take tickets for both events. When else will you get the chance to check the sets of a much-talked-about television series against the genuine clothing, weapons, jewellery and household objects of real, live Vikings?

At the oldest Moscow museum of contemporary art, the Mars centre, there is the installation "Psychosis" by the art collective AES+F, perhaps among the best-known contemporary Russian artists. If you have not heard of them, hasten to make good a colossal gap in your knowledge of outstanding contemporaries. As for those already familiar with the work of AES+F, they will have the chance to be astonished once more by their wild conceits, seeing the indescribable media from Zeldovich's much-talked-about production of Sarah Kane's play "4.48 Psychosis".

You can head out to one of the country estates within Moscow and see the exhibition "Under the Mask of Venice" at Tsaritsyno, with exhibits from the oldest Venetian museums and an interactive element. Besides the chance to find yourself in an eighteenth-century boudoir or imagine the life of Shakespeare's Venetian merchant, you can, of course, take a perfectly charming stroll in the lovely Tsaritsyno Park and enjoy the beauty of one of the most beautiful architectural ensembles in Moscow.

The most fitting close to the week will be a visit to the exhibition-auction "The Orb and the Cross" at the House of Creativity in Peredelkino, continuing a long-running project to popularise contemporary art that arose at the start of the quarantine saga and has allowed thousands of people to become collectors and acquire unique lots, at times from the hands of the authors themselves.