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After Boris Yukhananov's death, the director Alexey German Jr. recalled that in his youth Yukhananov used to convince beautiful women that he was a prince from a faraway land, and the women believed him

After Boris Yukhananov's death, the director Alexey German Jr. recalled that in his youth Yukhananov used to convince beautiful women that he was a prince from a faraway land, and the women believed him. The theatre critic Marina Davydova quoted a phrase with which Yukhananov himself explained his

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On 30 September the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre will mark the birthday of its artistic director Boris Yukhananov, who died a year ago

On 30 September the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre will mark the birthday of its artistic director Boris Yukhananov, who died a year ago. The programme of the evening, titled "Picnic. Requiem", includes the opening of an exhibition and the presentation of the Foundation and of the festival "Boris Yukhananov

The Golden Age · Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · People

Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master

Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master. The curators, Ildar Galeev and Kasia Denisevich, have for the first time tried to bring together what is usually scattered among museums and family archives: paintings, sketches

Art · Coming Up · London · People · Pop Culture

Hockney's Portrait of His Dachshund to Come Under the Hammer for the First Time

Hockney died in June 2026 at the age of 88. In 2018 his painting "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sold at Christie's in New York for $90.3 million, and Hockney was then considered the most expensive living artist. In the painting Hockney

Coming Up · Art · Observations

In 1972, at Documenta 5, the group Haus-Rucker-Co hung a transparent bubble with a palm tree inside out of a window of the Fridericianum and called it an oasis

In 1972, at Documenta 5, the group Haus-Rucker-Co hung a transparent bubble with a palm tree inside out of a window of the Fridericianum and called it an oasis. This came two years after Verner Panton had upholstered an entire room in foam and abolished the distinction between

Art · Coming Up · Moscow · Museums

The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art Shows Vrubel from the Side Least Known

The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art shows Vrubel from the side by which he is least known. The exhibition runs from 18 September 2026 to 17 February 2027 and is timed to the artist's 170th anniversary. The conception is built around ceramics. The visitor learns that for

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"A History of Black" at the Ekaterina Foundation

The Ekaterina Culture Foundation on Kuznetsky Most has opened an exhibition, "A History of Black". Its point of departure is the book by the French historian Michel Pastoureau, who for several decades has been writing biographies of colours and has already published volumes on blue, green, red and

Architecture · Moscow · Coming Up · Art

Art at the Entrance: Today

Art at the entrance of a building has long ceased to be a rarity: the golden “Prometheus” has stood in Rockefeller Center since 1934, Picasso's work in Chicago's Daley Plaza since 1967, and there is no need to look far afield: Savitsky's famous sculpture

Coming Up · Art · Paris · Pop Culture

During Art Basel this year, Sotheby's will open an exhibition apartment on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, overlooking the Tuileries Garden, with works worth nearly $150 million on display

During Art Basel this year, Sotheby's will open an exhibition apartment on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, overlooking the Tuileries Garden, with works worth nearly $150 million on display. None of them will go under the hammer: all are offered for private sale, that is, a transaction

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At the AZ/ART Contemporary Art Centre on Maroseyka, a Joint Exhibition of the AZ Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery

At the AZ/ART Contemporary Art Centre at Maroseyka, 11/4c1, a joint exhibition of the AZ Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery is under way. Until 29 November it shows 43 sculptures of the late 1950s and the 1960s from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the AZ Museum and

Coming Up · Archive · The East · Art · Moscow · Museums

The State Museum of the East, at 12A Nikitsky Boulevard, presents an exhibition devoted to the artistic legacy of the Volkov-Rybnikov dynasty

The State Museum of the East, at 12A Nikitsky Boulevard, presents an exhibition devoted to the artistic legacy of the Volkov-Rybnikov dynasty. The display runs until 8 November and comprises some one hundred and fifty works of painting, graphic art and sculpture by three generations of the family. The

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The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Associa

The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Association Sloboda". A magnificent pattern emerges from beneath the accumulated