Art · Museums · Society · People
The musician Vladimir Tarasov has given the Lithuanian National Museum of Art more than 500 works by Soviet nonconformists. Tarasov, who was personally friendly with the authors represented in his half-century collection, will be remembered by future generations if only through the name of the collection, "The Museum
Coming Up · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
While we plan our working weeks, I suggest turning your attention to the new programme at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, a series of discussions and closed seminars on "New Ethics, Stigma and Inequality". To my mind, the most interesting thing about this thematic field is its
NB! · Cinema · Observations
Meanwhile, Anya Chipovskaya reports that the release of the long-awaited film "Has Anyone Seen My Girl?" has been postponed until next year owing to the state of affairs in the country's cinemas. A great pity, but what can one do 🐥
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Today is museum day, so it is the right moment to consider what might be visited over the coming month. If you are in Moscow or planning to visit the capital, save this listing. At the Alexander Solzhenitsyn museum-apartment on Tverskaya, the exhibition “Comrade Captain!”, devoted to the writer&
NB! · Observations · Society · Humour
NB! · Observations · Reportage
Special thanks for allowing me to visit the wine cellars of Golubitsky, which supplies Russian tables with more than a million bottles of white, red, rosé and sparkling wine a year. I am sure that this location deserves the particular attention of artists and could become part of another art
Art · Museums · Education
What interests us about Golubitskoe is not so much its vineyards, which also have a rather gripping history, as the activity of the Golubitskoe art foundation, which has established a residency for artists, curators, art historians, journalists, critics, writers, historians, archaeologists and other creative and humanities specialists, who have the
Geography · Observations · Nature
So I have visited the Golubitskoye wine estate on Taman myself, the one I wrote about in connection with Alisa Ioffe's exhibition. The estate lies in an old Cossack stanitsa named after the sotnik Grigory Golubitsky, who earned in the Russo-Turkish war not only the rank of
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Archaeology · Faith · Museums · Ethnography
The Taman Archaeological Museum holds many such Jewish gravestones of the Khazars, dating from the second half of the 1st millennium AD. On the spread of Judaism in the Khazar Khaganate there is, in general, no consensus: not on whether it was Rabbinic or Karaite Judaism, nor on how it
Architecture · The East · Observations · Heritage
"A Turkish fortress, far from first-class but politically most pernicious, Anapa demanded of the Russian state such a number of military campaigns, by army and fleet alike, as no other enemy fortress, even of stronger construction, ever called forth. Some four times it was blown up until completely
Faith · Art
The central panel of the altarpiece of the Basilica of San Zeno, Verona. Crucifixion, Andrea Mantegna, 1457-1459. In the foreground we see the mottled, lifeless summit of Golgotha, somewhat like marble, or perhaps bone, as though it represented the top of a skull with its sutures and sparse blades