NB! · Coming Up · Interviews · Paris
Off to Paris, urgently! A creative meeting with Yury Butusov is an excellent continuation of the touring production. He is one of the finest theatre directors in the country. There is so much one could ask him
Coming Up · Architecture · Moscow · Museums
A Museum of the Cossacks is to open in Moscow. It will become part of the complex of the State Historical Museum. The Central Museum of the Russian Cossacks will be housed in an old mansion in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane, where before the Revolution of 1917 the Palace Department had
NB! · Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Moscow
Coming Up · Faith · Art · London
It is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the known portraits of Saint Sebastian created by El Greco. The saint is shown against an overcast, clouded sky at the moment of revelation, his questioning and submissive gaze turned upwards, his slightly parted lips symbolising divine communion, while the calm of his
Coming Up · Observations · Society
It cannot but please that with each passing year cultural initiatives receive ever more institutional support, and that membership of specialist communities is becoming prestigious among the young. This year the annual Russian Creative Awards, to be held tomorrow, has added a special category for young figures in culture, the
Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Moscow
Now it is official: the winter |catalog| contemporary art fair will take place in Moscow from 6 to 8 December. Catalog is the only contemporary art fair in Russia organised directly by gallerists, and so the terms of participation differ from those of the usual commercial fairs. For instance, all
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
The exhibition will include 70 works from the collections of the AZ Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Sergei Alexandrov, Nikolai Kotrelev, Mikhail Alshibaya, the artist's family and others. The project will present the principal strands of Yakovlev's work: abstractions, flowers and portraits created in the 1950s
Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · People
The final week of the remarkable exhibition "Faith in Yermolayeva" is under way at Galeev Gallery. It is not merely a weighty event from the curatorial point of view, but also an important account of Vera Yermolayeva (1893-1937), whose name, though little known, has become one of
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg
"The Brazen Serpent" by Fyodor Bruni, from the collection of the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, will be on show in Room 9 of the permanent display of the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane from 6 November to 12 May. The painting was last in Moscow in 2003,
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Society
The second part of the exhibition project "Belyayevo — Izmaylovo. Nonconformism from the Q-ART Collection", entitled "Green Light for the Underground", has opened at Q-ART Gallery. It is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the exhibition of nonconformist artists in Izmaylovo Park, held two weeks
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Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · People
The Multimedia Art Museum is hosting a major exhibition of Igor Shelkovsky, "Celestial City. The Artist's Studio". Together with the retrospective at the Tretyakov Gallery and MAMM, it is the largest exhibition of the master's work. Shelkovsky is one of the outstanding nonconformists, a