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The outdoor exhibition "To the Right Lies the White Forest" is dedicated to the memory of the metarealist poet Alexander Yeryomenko, who died only recently. He did not care for Peredelkino, yet made it famous all the same in a landmark poem. The title itself is a quotation
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Shall we go to a museum? One of the oldest museum collections in Russia, dating from the time of Peter the Great, is, incidentally, the collection of minerals, which in 1716 became the core of the Mineral Cabinet of the Kunstkamera and in 1836 was formally transformed into a separate
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Guidoccio di Giovanni Cozzarelli (1450-1517). The Baptism of Christ. John the Baptist sports an epic hair shirt. Now on show at the Pushkin Museum, at the exhibition of proto-Renaissance masterpieces. The canvas comes from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. “Siena at the Dawn
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Titian, Allegory of Prudence. The painting is usually read as a depiction of the three ages of man and the three tenses: past, present and future, a sign that prudence is acquired with the years. But who, in that case, are the dog, the lion and the wolf in this
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Francisco Infante's plan for the illumination of Red Square. Among much else, it contains a most intriguing proposal: a dynamic lighting scheme for the Kremlin wall, in which a white light would "march" along the wall itself in step with the honour guard. Regrettably, the idea
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A reminder that this year we shall see Tilda in two films at once at the Cannes Film Festival: Memoria by the independent Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson
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Remember the presidential grant competition for cultural projects? The first figures are in: within two weeks, 4,000 people had already expressed a wish to take part in the first grant competition in the sphere of culture, art and the creative industries. The submission of applications opened on 15 June
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An exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the Library of Foreign Literature itself and the 120th anniversary of its founder, Margarita Ivanovna Rudomino, has opened at the library. The display includes the first director's personal belongings, letters and photographs. It also features an unusual multimedia element: an interview
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On 26 June the Lazy Mike gallery opens "You Are Not Alone", a charity exhibition: proceeds from the sale of works by 12 contemporary Russian women artists will go to the women's mutual aid fund of the same name. Among the works are some we have
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In the historic Maison Chaumet on the Place Vendôme in Paris, an unprecedented exhibition of jewels from the jewellery house of Chaumet, entitled “Napoleon and Joséphine”, is running until the middle of July. I was fortunate enough to visit the colossal exhibition of Chaumet's treasures in the summer
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Before museums close again for a new quarantine, I strongly urge you to visit the exhibition “Art Hunters” at the Museum of Russian Impressionism, which brings together canvases from the collections of the most famous collectors of the Soviet Union: Semenov, Rubinstein, Stychkin, Abramyan, Valk, Dudakov, Paleev, fourteen people in
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One may "apply" for the competitive selection until the end of July. It is run by the Presidential Foundation for Cultural Initiatives. The winners are expected to be determined by September. "The expert review takes place during August, and already at the beginning of September, we assume,