Coming Up · Art · Education
In Kaliningrad, the 17th "Baltic Seasons" arts festival continues until 8 December. The festival, a theatrical showcase, presents productions by Russian theatres and university drama companies, and its programme is in two parts: "Modern Classics" and "The Future of Theatre. The Fruits of Enlightenment"
Observations · Society
Most of my acquaintances keep going out to the same bars as before the new measures, only at a different hour: truly, people who used never to leave the house before one in the morning now dance on the same overcrowded dance floors, only from 6 to 8 p.m.
Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage
In Suzdal, the historic mosaic "Christ Enthroned" is promised restoration in 2021 on the façade of the Dmitry Pozharsky memorial chapel of 1885, built from public donations at the Monastery of Saint Euthymius and destroyed in 1933. When the chapel was rebuilt in 2009, the image of the
Architecture · Faith · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Mores
Visited the town of Volokolamsk, one of the oldest in the Moscow Region, with its ancient kremlin on a 17-metre rise on the left bank of the little River Gorodnya, where the year of foundation (in fact, of first mention) is laid out on the slope: 1136. Inside the
Coming Up · Books · Museums
Museum life is not confined to the big cities. In Sarapul, for example, the House-Museum of the mining engineer and academician Nikolai Melnikov (1909-1980) is showing “Brockhaus and Efron: The History of One Encyclopaedia” until the end of the year, marking 130 years since the publication of the
Museums · Observations · Mores
But you have surely seen, in one or other of the small museums of southern Italy or Greece, similar exhibits made in a simpler technique. The people of the eighteenth century, too, adored adorning their homes and were not strangers to design inventions. I remember a splendid specimen of a
Art · Observations
Why have I suddenly become interested in the ceramics of Simon Porte Jacquemus? First, because they are beautiful) But in general these works refer us to the European ceramic tradition of the 17th and 18th centuries. Compare, for example, this faience dish with asparagus by the major French ceramicist Jacques
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Cinema · Observations · Humour
Many of the costumes from Joseph Mankiewicz's "Cleopatra" were bought for the filming of "Carry On Cleo". So Mark Antony swaggers about in the very same outfits in both films. Who wore them better, Richard Burton or Sid James, may be judged from these
Cinema · Observations · Humour
For everyone who loves Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra of 1963, I recommend comparing her with Amanda Barrie's Cleo in the 1964 comic film "Carry On Cleo", from the long-running Carry On series, made in the wake of the film classic. It must be said
Coming Up · The East · Art · Museums
If you still remember Prigov's 80th anniversary, about which everyone was writing only recently, take note of the exhibition "Prigov Days in Vladikavkaz" at the North Caucasian Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. On show are sketches for installations, texts, stikhogrammy, video works
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Heritage