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The Museum of Russian Impressionism is showing an exhibition devoted to one of the first glossy magazines of pre-revolutionary Russia, "Capital and Country Estate", which first appeared in 1913

The Museum of Russian Impressionism is showing an exhibition devoted to one of the first glossy magazines of pre-revolutionary Russia, "Capital and Country Estate" (Stolitsa i usadba), which first appeared in 1913. The display brings together paintings from 44 museums and 14 private collections that either appeared

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Art historian Vsevolod Petrov in his diaries on love for K. and for books

I think only of books. What do I have? Nothing but books. What would I wish for? Books. And only K. do I love more than books, because for her I am ready not merely to refrain from buying books but even to sell my own, so as to buy

Painting in a gold frame: the face of a girl with a tear on her cheek and a human skull on the right against a green background.

Art · Cinema · Observations · Humour

The Alien who regarded Ellen Ripley as its mother and her departure by spaceship

Rex Whistler in 1934 and David Fincher in 1992. To be perfectly honest, one has always felt sorry for that poor Alien, especially in the instalment where he took Ellen Ripley for his mother, and she flew off in a spaceship without him

Art · Humour

Jaspar de Isaac, Dealer in Horns and Antlers, 1634

Those who have none of these fine wares, gentlemen, need not haggle here; the most ridiculous and the most magnificent of men buy them

NB! · Observations

Of myself I can say that I was never a collector, merely more attentive than others to my property

Oil still life of orange and yellow-green fruit on pink cloth over a grey tabletop. The painting hangs in an ornate gilded frame on a white wall.

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Still life with fruit in a gilded frame

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Can you name an artist who never painted flowers?

Can you name an artist who never painted flowers? As the exhibition Something about flowers at the Alina Pinsky Gallery has shown, even in František Kupka, if one is so inclined, a vase of flowers can be found. The exhibition, which is much to my liking, tells, as it were,

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums

Another selection of the main discoveries of Moscow's museums and art galleries in our regular column

✔️The exhibition "ART-Workshop XXI. A Mirror for the Artist" at the exhibition hall of the Zaryadye Media Centre, Varvarka 6/1, until 15 September. ✔️The exhibition by Pavel Efanov and Alla Polkovnichenko, "Urban Romantics", at the Vykhino Gallery of the Moscow Exhibition Halls Association, Tashkentskaya

NB! · Architecture · Cinema · Heritage

The hunting galleries of the French château of Raray, built in the early seventeenth century, were immortalised in world culture by Jean Cocteau, who chose them as the setting for his 1946 film "Beauty and the Beast", with Josette Day and Jean Marais, who

Books · Monarchies · Mores · Education

Mirror for Princes: a genre of medieval literature written to instruct rulers, containing precepts and recommendations for dukes, princes and inexperienced kings

Thus a French Speculum Principis of the early sixteenth century contains the counsel not to "speak against the sun" and not to "make water facing the sun"