Coming Up · Faith · Art · Museums · Society · Paris
A triptych by the Belgian Symbolist Léon Frédéric entitled "The Ages of the Worker", painted between 1895 and 1897. It belongs to the collection of the Musée d'Orsay and is currently on show at the "Brussels 1900" exhibition at the Petit Palais in Paris.
Coming Up · Art · New York
Christie's in New York is to offer Georgia O'Keeffe's 1930 landscape "Near Abiquiu, New Mexico I". For the past four decades the painting has lain wrapped up in a cupboard in a flat in New York's East Village, and until
Coming Up · Art · New York
Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun, portrait of the artist's daughter, Julie, as a bather In 2027 this painting will be offered at auction at Christie's in New York
The East · Coming Up · Art · London · Museums
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has at last done what museums usually avoid on administrative grounds: it has placed in a single gallery Byzantine and Ottoman objects that spent a century and a half in different departments. The exhibition Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires opens on
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Faith · Moscow · Museums
On 3 November the Andrei Rublev Museum will hold its Night of Arts. The evening begins at 18:00 in one of the most atmospheric places in Moscow: the grounds of the ancient Spaso-Andronikov Monastery. The programme includes guided tours of icons from the 13th to 17th centuries, a
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Archaeology · Books · Moscow · Science
On 7 November the Nekrasov Library will host "Open List", a festival devoted to history and archaeology "Open List" is a free one-day festival that will bring together scholars, archaeologists, museum specialists, artists and popularisers of science from different cities of Russia. Over the course
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Paris
The Musée d'Orsay is currently showing "Mary Cassatt: An Independent", timed to the centenary year of her death. It is strange that, in a hundred years, this is essentially the first major retrospective of Cassatt at a French national museum. Mary Cassatt was born in 1844
The East · Coming Up · Monarchies · Museums
The Hermitage-Kazan Centre in the Kazan Kremlin has opened an exhibition, "Nicholas II: Family and Throne". It was prepared by the State Hermitage Museum and the Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve, and will run until 5 September 2027. According to Ilnur Rakhimov, director of the museum-reserve, this
Coming Up · Moscow · Science · Society
The Union of Theatre Workers of Russia marked its 150th anniversary with a gala concert on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. The event was timed to coincide with the organisation's Tenth Congress, at which, on the same day, it received a new name: the Russian Theatre
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Paris
The Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris is showing the exhibition "Tintoretto: Eternal" until 24 January 2027 This is the first exhibition in France to cover the whole career of Jacopo Robusti (1518/1519-1594). In a fairly small exhibition space are gathered some forty paintings and drawings from
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Art · Museums
Henri Matisse in Lyubertsy 120 portraits and cut-outs by Matisse will be shown at an exhibition in the Lyubertsy Museum and Exhibition Complex. The combination of 120 lithographs with fragments of Matisse's texts reveals him as both artist and philosopher: for him art was not merely a
Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is showing the exhibition “Gustave Fayet. Collector and Creator” until 8 March 2027. It continues the “Icons of Modern Art” series, which has previously included the collections of Sergei Shchukin, the brothers Mikhail and Ivan Morozov, and the British industrialist Samuel Courtauld. The Fondation