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Coming Up · Architecture · Heritage · Education · Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg's Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory plans to organise tours of its renovated historic building once the repairs are complete

The main works are due to be finished by December, but some classes may resume as early as September. Particular attention has been paid to preserving the historic appearance of the building while equipping it with modern facilities. The acoustics of the Rubinstein Great Hall have been improved, and the

Coming Up · The East · Art · Museums

The New Jerusalem Museum Opens "Light Between Worlds", a Large-Scale Exhibition Project Combining Two Significant but Little-Studied Collections of Art of the 1920s and 1930s: the Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan…

The New Jerusalem Museum has opened "Light Between Worlds", a large-scale exhibition project that brings together two significant but little-studied collections of art of the 1920s and 1930s: that of the I.V. Savitsky Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan and that of the

Coming Up · Art · Moscow

Today on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre: the premiere of the revised version of Rodion Shchedrin's ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse", after the fairy tale of the same name by Pyotr Yershov

The ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse" was first staged in 1864 on the stage of the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg. The production was subsequently revived many times at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow over the years. In 1960 came the premiere of a new version of the

Coming Up · Art · Monarchies · Observations · Paris

The celebrated French antiques dealer and ardent admirer of Napoleon Pierre-Jean Chalençon has put around 100 items from his famous collection up for auction

The sale will take place on 25 June at Sotheby’s in Paris. Among the lots: Napoleon’s bicorne hat, made by his court hatter Poupard and presented by General Mouton. A campaign bed with a canopy. A ceremonial sword and sceptre used at Napoleon’s coronation in Notre-Dame

Coming Up · Archaeology · Moscow · Museums

The Terracotta Army Is Coming to Moscow

Now that is news! The director of the State Historical Museum has announced that in 2026 the museum will bring the legendary Terracotta Army to Moscow. This will be a truly large-scale cultural event. We are currently in active negotiations with our colleagues from the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage

Coming Up · Archive · Art · Museums

The last week, until 25 May, of the exhibition "Love in the Avant-Garde" at the Zotov Centre

The exhibition "Love in the Avant-Garde. Mikhail Matyushin and Elena Guro" runs at the Zotov Centre for its last week, until 25 May. It is devoted to two rarely mentioned figures of the Russian avant-garde and to their influence on one another, in their work and

NB! · Coming Up · Geography · Maps · Science

That very place on earth, rarely shown to the layman, where Pacifida, or the continent of Mu, ought to be found

That very place on earth, rarely shown to the layman, where Pacifida, or the continent of Mu, ought to be found. Where the very idea of it came from, hear in the third episode of my podcast

Coming Up · Books · Museums

With one of the country's principal theatrical events drawing near, the Melikhovo Spring International Festival, which this year runs from 23 May to 1 June at the Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Museum-Reserve "Melikhovo", has gathered for you…

"Uncle Vanya". "Theatre Ark in Dubrava" Drama Theatre (Sergiev Posad). This play by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov is more than a hundred years old. The company behind the production asked itself: "Who are these people, Chekhov's heroes, now, in the 21st century?" "

NB! · Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Paris

At the Museum of Moscow's new exhibition "Between Paris and Moscow", I particularly recommend the sculptures of Sergei Koltsov, author of the sketches for the sculptural figures on the building of the Lenin Library

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Science

Contemporary philosophers and art theorists are actively discussing the creative output of neural networks and artificial intelligence, from rethinking authorship and the creative process, calling AI a co-author, to debates about the authentic…

Most philosophers agree that AI is merely a tool and one of the extensions of the human mind, and art historians, curators and artists are not standing aside from these reflections either. One answer is the exhibition "Humans and Neural Networks: Who Creates Whom?", which opened this week

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · People

From 22 May to 13 July 2025, the Andrey Cheglakov Foundation on Prechistenka will host Boris Kocheishvili's solo exhibition "Cloud, Lake, Tower", timed to the artist's 85th birthday

From 22 May to 13 July 2025, the Andrey Cheglakov Foundation on Prechistenka will host Boris Kocheishvili's solo exhibition "Cloud, Lake, Tower", timed to the artist's 85th birthday. The project will present to the wider public the many-sided work of one of the

Coming Up · Books · Paris · Pop Culture

The devoted admirer of Russian culture and of the work of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, British actor Ralph Fiennes, who reads the Russian classics in the original, will stage "Eugene Onegin" at the Paris Opera

The devoted admirer of Russian culture and of the work of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, British actor Ralph Fiennes, who reads the Russian classics in the original, will stage "Eugene Onegin" at the Paris Opera. The production will be conducted by Semyon Bychkov, with singers including Bogdan Volkov, Boris