Coming Up · Art · Education · Saint Petersburg
At 19.30, join the online lecture by Ilya Doronchenkov, Professor at the European University at Saint Petersburg: “Diaghilev's Failure? The Wrong Road to the West”
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Ethnography
Since such fairy-tale goings-on are afoot, a reminder that from today you can visit the exhibition "The Russian Fairy Tale" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. The display brings together classic works on fairy-tale subjects, contemporary art, sculpture and media: a veritable journey through
Coming Up · Geography · Science · People
Today at 18:30 the website of the Russian Geographical Society will host a lecture marking the 110th anniversary of the legendary explorer of the World Ocean, Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The lecture can also be watched on YouTube and VK.
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Today: a lecture on Dürer by Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Department of Western European Prints at the Hermitage. Do join in, if you like: https://likadlugach.timepad.ru/event/1339706/ He gave a splendid lecture on Bruegel earlier, which I ought to have shared as well. But that is
Coming Up · Art · Heritage · Society · Paris
The French state agency Le Mobilier national, which is responsible for valuable works of art, furniture and interiors in government institutions, palaces and collections, will hold an unprecedented auction on Heritage Days, 20 and 21 September. All proceeds from the sale of palace furniture, paintings, hangings, bronzes and the like
Coming Up · Interviews · Art · Museums · Society Pages
Friends! I invite you to the private view of Maxim Boxer's exhibition A Collector's Dream at the In Artibus foundation. Max is in the photograph and sends his regards; he kindly answered a few simple questions by way of a first introduction to his collection. The
Coming Up · Interviews · Art · Moscow · Observations
The Art Newspaper has run a piece on a grand exhibition by the well-known Moscow collector Max Boxer, which opens on 19 March and will transform the IN ARTIBUS foundation's space into a flat filled with genuine belongings and interiors of the Boxer family. I gather that
Coming Up · Architecture · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums
The grandiose Model of the Grand Kremlin Palace, which gathered dust for 20 years in the storerooms of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, is perhaps the most vivid testimony to Catherine II's sweeping idea of remodelling the ensemble of the Kremlin and Red Square. Alas, the plan was
Coming Up · Art · Observations · Society
On 11 February Sotheby's will once again offer David Hockney's "Splash". The painting is expected to fetch as much as $39 million. In 2006 "Splash" was sold for £2.9 million. One of the three splashes is going under the hammer: there
NB! · Coming Up · Art · Museums · Paris · Humour
Toulouse-Lautrec asks me to pass it on. Incidentally, there is a large retrospective of his work at the Grand Palais right now
NB! · Coming Up · Cinema · Humour
Plans for the evening: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968). As for the posters with Christopher Lee, they fully merit attention in their own right.
Coming Up · Aristocracy · Archaeology · Art · London
From 1 to 7 October the royal jewellers Wartski, at 60 St James's in London, will be showing a 2,000-year-old sky-blue ring of solid sapphire, which could go for over £500,000. One of the most famous intaglios in the world is believed to