Coming Up · Observations · Education · Society
Once, at a job interview, I was asked how I understood the phrase "from dream to realisation is but one step". To be honest, I don't understand it at all. It is one step from dream to realisation only if, say, your dream is to get
Coming Up · Art · Saint Petersburg
The concept of the exhibition rests on the psychoanalytic theory of Carl Gustav Jung and his notion of the "shadow", the rejected part of the human psyche. Collecting, in this context, is treated as a way of encountering the unconscious, in which the choice of works becomes an
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Paris · Pop Culture
📌 Paul Poiret, la mode est une fête. Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) - until 11 January 2026. A major retrospective of a great couturier of the twentieth century, Paul Poiret, liberator of the female body and master of the fashion avant-garde. The exhibition shows not only his legendary silhouettes but
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Valery Ivanovich Yurlov is a leading figure of Russian neo-avant-garde and non-objective painting, author of the "para-forms" method and of series in which he explores the relations of forms, their interaction and transformation. Valery Yurlov's works are held in the collections of
Coming Up · Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums
The casket was intended for the safekeeping of important founding documents and charters granted for the administration of the governorates of the All-Russian Empire". The Tver Viceroyalty, established on 25 November 1775, became the first administrative-territorial unit of the new pattern in the Russian Empire. The casket
Coming Up · Archive · Art · Saint Petersburg
The Béton Centre for Visual Culture has announced a new project, "Masterpieces of Early Photography". The exhibition, which opens on 29 August, will present unique works by outstanding nineteenth-century photographers: David Hill and Robert Adamson, Édouard Baldus, Henri Le Secq, Gustave Le Gray and other masters whose
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Yes, this is the same contemporary artist whose chandelier of multicoloured glass beads hangs in the Petit Palais in Paris; his style is instantly recognisable. At present, works by Othoniel are on show in all the museums and historic sights of Avignon. I cannot recall a comparable exhibition in history.
Coming Up · Archive · Cinema · Humour
Sokurov's five-hour film is to be shown at the Venice Festival. The chief question is whether anyone apart from Alexander Nikolayevich himself will manage to sit through the picture to the end. The documentary work by the director Alexander Sokurov, entitled “The Director's Diary”, will
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art. From the Daguerreotype to Artificial Intelligence". The exhibition is very large: one can wander happily for several hours, for it occupies two floors of the Manege. It opens with the very first
Coming Up · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
Ivan Klyun (1873–1943) was a associate of Malevich, the author of the first kinetic constructions in Russian art, and a theorist of colour and form. His work is regarded as important testimony to the evolution of artistic thinking in the first half of the twentieth century. The exhibition includes
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Philips Galle's Alchemist after a drawing by Pieter Bruegel the Elder: a man sinking into utter insignificance and ruin, driven by the wish to grow rich quickly in the fields of alchemical transmutation. Instead of turning lead into gold, the experiments of the philosopher's stone, as
Coming Up · Moscow · Pop Culture · Reportage
Today at the Moscow Variety Theatre the first chords sounded of one of the most anticipated premieres of this autumn: a press conference was held there to present the musical “Waltz-Boston”. There was as yet no orchestra and no full glare of the footlights, but there were sketches of