Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Not long ago I wrote on Threads about the Polytechnic Museum, asking when it will open, whereupon a man turned up and began to assert that the museum has had another storey added – mark this – from below! For all the adepts of TikTok education, I took these photographs yesterday while
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Coming Up · Moscow · Science · Society
When the theatre sets about making sense of the algorithmic age, the talk inevitably turns to the balance between tradition and experiment. The project “Neurotheatre: A Rehearsal for the Future”, whose launch was announced on 7 September at the opening of the Theatre of Nations season, is conceived not as
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Zotov Centre on Khodynskaya Street presents the exhibition "Bread" from 3 September 2026 to 17 January 2027. The project is timed to the 95th anniversary of Bakery No. 5, in whose former building the centre is housed. The curators describe the layout of the exhibition as a
Observations · Humour
upd. the seller not only failed to thank me but declined to take it on board, leaving the advertisement exactly as it was; he is still wavering over which century the 18th actually is
Archaeology · The East · Science
Tiny stone points 80,000 years old have been found in Uzbekistan's Obi-Rakhmat cave, which by wear traces and mass can only have served as arrowheads: that is, the earliest evidence of ranged weapons in Eurasia. Such technology has hitherto been associated exclusively with Homo sapiens, so
Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow
The company assembled on 6 September 2026. The plans for the eighty-eighth season were set out by the artistic director Konstantin Raikin and the theatre's managing director Elizaveta Gavrilova. The theatre continues to operate without a stage of its own. The first premiere of the season was
Art · Humour
Ha, very witty. The Mexican artist Alfredo Castañeda (1938-2010), 1984
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During one of their joint journeys, in September and October 1903, Dmitry Stelletsky photographed Boris Kustodiev on the bridge over the River Volkhov, with the Novgorod Kremlin and the Sophia Bell Tower behind him. The photograph, together with other pictures from their expeditions, was donated by Kustodiev's heirs
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These photographs of St Sophia's Cathedral in Novgorod were taken by Boris Kustodiev in the autumn of 1903, during his journey to the North with Dmitry Stelletsky. In 1900 Stelletsky and Kustodiev made an expedition through the Kostroma Governorate, and in 1903 through the Russian North and the
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Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
The Marble Palace is cramped. One understands this on seeing the collection, so familiar from its walls, in the halls of the Zilart museum. Stepping into the space of the new exhibition of the gift of Peter and Irene Ludwig, shown here in its entirety for the first time, I