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"Come and get your Chardzhou melons!"

- Come and get your Chardzhou melons! Sweet as honey, smooth as a maiden! Step up, snap them up! As you see, the first to swoop down was the Italian master of still life Antonio Tibaldi (1635-1675). The painting is in the display «Flowers, Fruits and Musical Instruments in Italian

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Shift Gallery and Set Projects Gallery Mount an Exhibition of Surrealist Graphic Art

Shift Gallery, together with Set Projects Gallery, is holding an exhibition of surrealist graphic art. It is said that surrealism as such no longer exists in our day, but Dasha Kuznetsova and her colleagues recall the surrealist manifesto and refute the claim by showing splendid, mostly young, artists who create

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The "Education and Career" Exhibition at the Gostiny Dvor

The "Education and Career" exhibition at the Gostiny Dvor. Entrance through Entrance 4

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“When looking over the work of his pupils he spoke for the most part abruptly, in short phrases: ‘The head is too small’, ‘The hand is drawn wrongly’...

“When looking over the work of his pupils he spoke for the most part abruptly, in short phrases: ‘The head is too small’, ‘The hand is drawn wrongly’... Why too small, why wrongly, Repin usually did not explain, but demanded that his pupils grasp it for themselves. Yet at times

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Nizhny Novgorod Opera House stages "The Abduction from the Seraglio", written by Mozart shortly before his marriage to Constanze Weber

The problems of fidelity and choice in love and freedom, of male and female nature: critics call Mozart's opera "a fantasy for grown-ups". The premiere runs from 29 February to 3 March, in a production by Ekaterina Odegova; the musical director of the performance is

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A Girl Resting by the Water

A girl resting by the water. The artist is Étienne Dinet, who fell in love with Algeria and its people and created a beautiful Algerian cycle. The painting is now on show at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, in an exhibition that runs until June

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“Living Sculptures”, the second exhibition of the “Systems of Mimicry” project at the Az/Art space, curated by Alexander Dashevsky, has gathered works by Igor Shelkovsky, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Vadim Sidur, Pyotr Dyakov, Alexander Ney, Elena…

The exhibition makes one attend to the place of the body in artistic language, to the interpretations of the body in different media, and to the influence that perceptions of corporeality exert on art. It opens with a sketch from a beach in besieged Leningrad, one that, according to the

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"My painting does not depict an event, it is an event" - Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko

The exhibition "Zverev/Mikhnov-Voitenko. A Second Multiplied by Eternity" at the AZ Museum. When you come to the exhibition, be sure to watch the film about the artist on the 3rd floor of the museum, and it is better still to begin your visit with it. Mikhnov-

Coming Up · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Rome

Until the end of 2025, a 13-metre copy of the ancient Colossus of Constantine, which once stood in the apse of the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum, can be seen in the grounds of the Villa Caffarelli, part of the Capitoline Museums complex

The reconstructed statue of the seated emperor in a gilded tunic, with a sceptre and an orb in his hands, was shown in Milan last year as part of the Recycling Beauty exhibition. It is a pity that nowhere is anything said about the mass of the gigantic sculpture or

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Saint Mary Magdalene, a wooden sculpture of the 17th century, attributed to the Spaniard Pedro de Mena

Saint Mary Magdalene, a wooden sculpture of the 17th century, attributed to the Spaniard Pedro de Mena. Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition at the Pushkin Museum, “The Spanish Collection. From the Holdings of Russian Museums”, is open until 4 February

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A Hussar Officer's Mentik of the Life Guards Hussar Regiment, Made for Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich When He Was Two Months Old

From the collection of the Tsarskoye Selo State Museum Reserve; on view at Tsaritsyno, in the exhibition "Becoming a Romanov. Upbringing and Education in the Imperial Family"

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For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to

For another 12 days the Voznesensky Centre is showing a small but richly packed exhibition, "The Museum of Spiritual Avant-Garde", devoted to the spiritual and worldly experience of the Christian intelligentsia in the 1930s to 1950s, a time that seemed to many without exit and without hope.