A framed photo on a white wall shows a person in a paper cupcake costume with a pink cherry hood. Below, part of another work shows checked fabric and smoke.

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Photographic portrait in a paper cupcake costume on a gallery wall

On a pale plywood wall hang two frames holding fabric with embroidered words: a brown rectangular one and a white oval one. Labels below name Sabina Baisarova and list a price of 20,000 rubl

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Two 2023 works by Sabina Baisarova in frames with embroidered inscriptions

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A few more impressions worth sharing

A few more impressions worth sharing. Works that caught my eye

On a blue podium stand a turquoise shelving unit, a honeycomb panel with pink light, a bright tufted rug on the wall, a translucent stool and a wooden armchair.

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Contemporary design objects at an exhibition: shelving unit, rug and wooden chair

A white-cushioned sofa with a bolster sits on a steel platform on a blue podium. Beside it are a cast-metal mirror, a wall lamp and a glowing light panel.

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Contemporary design display: a sofa on a metal platform and light fixtures

Art · Observations · Society Pages

Design section at Blazar with a shelving unit by Bureau Sknypl and a couch by Bureau Saga

In the design section at Blazar I was glad to see the work of my friends: the insanely cool shelving unit from Bureau Sknypl and the laconic daybed from Bureau Saga. It is pleasant to know that our artists, designers and architects produce such a high-quality, competitive product. A

Framed watercolour: a glowing yellow figure with a face and many arms and legs runs down a dark staircase between purple clouds. A wall label sits below.

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Nikita Ugryumov, Angel, 2023: watercolour on display

Art · Moscow · Observations · Reportage

At the Blazar fair, the independent artists section and regional stands have grown

A quick look round Blazar: this year there is a large section of independent artists, with a great many young people and new names. The number of regional stands has noticeably grown, so this is no longer a purely Moscow fair. Among the Moscow galleries I would single out the

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Penny-pinching, 2024 edition: the Blazar contemporary art fair now charges for carrier bags, though we must be grateful that Sellotape and bubble wrap are still provided free of charge

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The Painter and the Connoisseur

The Painter and the Connoisseur. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566 Albertina Gallery, Vienna

Art · Observations · Science · Palaeontology

Léon Becker's 1884 painting and the discovery of 30 iguanodon skeletons at Bernissart

How touching that a man was found, namely the nineteenth-century Belgian painter Léon Becker, who wished to record "The Mounting of the First Iguanodon from Bernissart in the Chapel of Saint George in Brussels", for that is what the picture is called. 1884. At that time, 30

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Tolstoy and Chekhov in the Crimea in 1901

Tolstoy and Chekhov in the Crimea in 1901. Lev Nikolayevich is 73, Anton Pavlovich 41.

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