Coming Up · Faith · Museums · Science · Paris
At the Paul Éluard Museum of Art and History in Saint-Denis, housed within the walls of a former Carmelite convent of 1625, 400 metres from the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the burial place of the kings of France, the exhibition "Believing and Healing. And Deliver Us from Evil&
Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Museums · People
In the early 2000s Eduard Steinberg, a representative of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a nonconformist, one of those whose art turned away from the Soviet norm towards pure geometry and metaphysics, built a house in Tarusa, which he made his working studio, where he painted and
Coming Up · Archive · Art · Museums · Observations
An exhibition called "Beyond the Hundred-and-First Kilometre. Nonconformists in Tarusa" has opened in Tarusa, marking the 65th anniversary of the "first free exhibition" of unofficial artists, held here in 1961 in the premises of the town club. That was a year before the Manege
Coming Up · Art · Books · Museums · Rome
At the end of September the Vatican Apostolic Library will open AQVA, an exhibition from its new cycle "Catastrophe and Miracle". The cycle is based on Gaetano Volpi's treatise "On the Passion for Books" of 1756, which lists five threats to the book: water,
Coming Up · London · Museums · Society · Ethnography
The British Museum has opened a most interesting exhibition on the USA. It is not, however, a parade of panegyrics for the 250th anniversary of the United States, but a reminder that many indigenous peoples were not at all delighted by American independence. Although the exhibition, Declaring Independence: USA 250,
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Education · People · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage has opened the exhibition "A Feat of Enlightened Philanthropy" for the 150th anniversary of the Central School of Technical Drawing, founded by Baron Alexander Ludwigovich Stieglitz (1814-1884), the greatest Russian banker of his age, who financed the state loans for the Crimean War and the
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Education · Saint Petersburg
In the house at 35 Tavricheskaya, one floor below Vyacheslav Ivanov's "Tower", where all Symbolist Petersburg gathered on Wednesdays, a drawing school operated from 1906. The school was founded by Elizaveta Zvantseva, a pupil of Repin and Serov. By the turn of the century the Academy
Coming Up · Art · London · Monarchies
The appraisers expect £100,000 to £150,000. Yet last November an anonymous collector bought this pendant at auction in Edinburgh for £5,588, as a mere old article of amber. After careful attribution, the inconspicuous trinket was recognised as a Renaissance jewel bearing a portrait of Elizabeth, which added
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Cinema · Museums
This week's five exhibitions are about time, and about how the living and the man-made deceive it. There is an artistic dynasty across four generations, newsreel film that stopped the moment, the faces of the theatre, deception as an engine of evolution and, to make up the
Coming Up · Archaeology · In the Press · Observations · Science
In essence, the cognitive revolution of 40,000 to 50,000 years ago is one of the textbook stories. Homo sapiens supposedly grew clever all of a sudden, drew a bull on a cave wall and set off to conquer the planet. The trouble is that anatomically modern humans appeared
Coming Up · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Pop Culture · Rome
On 9 July Fendi will show its first couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri, who moved from Dior last October. The venue is not Paris but Rome's National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, the GNAM. The gallery building itself is a former seventeenth-century monastery of the
Coming Up · Art · Museums · New York
A Dutchman, one of the pioneers of abstraction and co-founder of De Stijl, the international association for non-representational art, Mondrian fled the war and reached New York in 1940, where he fell in love with the city and with boogie-woogie and, by his own account, began to