Coming Up · Museums · Society
The heads of museums, theatres, libraries and other cultural institutions can receive 1 million roubles for their work. Such a financial reward is provided by the National Prize for Cultural Managers, for which applications opened today. The prize is being held for the second time, with the support of the
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Art · Museums · New York · Paris
The Metropolitan Museum and the Louvre are jointly preparing the exhibition "Rembrandt and the Ancients". It will open in New York in November 2027 and travel to Paris in 2028. For the first time in more than twenty years, the Metropolitan will show so full a retrospective of
Coming Up · Faith · Art · Museums · Paris
The Surbarán exhibition at the Louvre opens with the "Crucifixion" that launched the painter's fame in Seville in 1627. The Dominicans of the monastery of San Pablo el Real commissioned 21 paintings from the young Surbarán, and this vast canvas, almost three metres high, became the
Coming Up · Moscow · Education · People
After Boris Yukhananov's death, the director Alexey German Jr. recalled that in his youth Yukhananov used to convince beautiful women that he was a prince from a faraway land, and the women believed him. The theatre critic Marina Davydova quoted a phrase with which Yukhananov himself explained his
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · People
On 30 September the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre will mark the birthday of its artistic director Boris Yukhananov, who died a year ago. The programme of the evening, titled "Picnic. Requiem", includes the opening of an exhibition and the presentation of the Foundation and of the festival "Boris Yukhananov
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · People
Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master. The curators, Ildar Galeev and Kasia Denisevich, have for the first time tried to bring together what is usually scattered among museums and family archives: paintings, sketches
Art · Coming Up · London · People · Pop Culture
Hockney died in June 2026 at the age of 88. In 2018 his painting "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sold at Christie's in New York for $90.3 million, and Hockney was then considered the most expensive living artist. In the painting Hockney
Coming Up · Art · Observations
In 1972, at Documenta 5, the group Haus-Rucker-Co hung a transparent bubble with a palm tree inside out of a window of the Fridericianum and called it an oasis. This came two years after Verner Panton had upholstered an entire room in foam and abolished the distinction between
Art · Coming Up · Moscow · Museums
The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art shows Vrubel from the side by which he is least known. The exhibition runs from 18 September 2026 to 17 February 2027 and is timed to the artist's 170th anniversary. The conception is built around ceramics. The visitor learns that for
Coming Up · Moscow · Art · Books
The Ekaterina Culture Foundation on Kuznetsky Most has opened an exhibition, "A History of Black". Its point of departure is the book by the French historian Michel Pastoureau, who for several decades has been writing biographies of colours and has already published volumes on blue, green, red and
Architecture · Moscow · Coming Up · Art
Art at the entrance of a building has long ceased to be a rarity: the golden “Prometheus” has stood in Rockefeller Center since 1934, Picasso's work in Chicago's Daley Plaza since 1967, and there is no need to look far afield: Savitsky's famous sculpture
Coming Up · Art · Paris · Pop Culture
During Art Basel this year, Sotheby's will open an exhibition apartment on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, overlooking the Tuileries Garden, with works worth nearly $150 million on display. None of them will go under the hammer: all are offered for private sale, that is, a transaction