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The Annunciation is the earliest good news in European culture, a message that came true in the flesh. This week, five exhibitions on a promise and its fate: an image made flesh, sketches for a church that was never built, a colossus shown through the most fragile of materials, and
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The AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art has opened "The Wrong Horizon", an exhibition of Anya Zhelud, assembled to coincide exactly with the anniversary of the artist's death. Paintings, objects and installations spanning twenty-five years, among them early works of 2000-2001 that the public
Coming Up · Art · London · Museums · New York · Paris
If your holiday happens to land you in one of the three art capitals, here are three exhibitions for each, worth carving out half a day for. London 🎨 Frida: The Making of an Icon. Tate Modern, from 22 June. More than 130 works by Frida Kahlo and a separate strand
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"Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" has eclipsed the legacy of Vera Mukhina, and that injustice is at last being put right. From 3 June to 27 September the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art on Delegatskaya Street is showing a large retrospective of the work of the world-famous
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Herzen was finishing "My Past and Thoughts" in London, and visiting compatriots scolded him for having long since left Russia and forgotten it too well. The émigré is always charged with forgetfulness, though it is usually the homeland that does the forgetting. This week, in the rubric of
Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Paris
On the night of 20 to 21 May 2026 the bridge was covered by an inflatable structure of printed fabric depicting snow-covered cliffs, 120 metres long and about 18 metres high. Its form was inspired by the quarries from which the stone used to build Paris was extracted. But
Coming Up · Art · Books · London
The estimate for the book is £1.5–2 million. The manuscript has spent 700 years in private hands, has never been publicly exhibited and has never been studied academically. It is now the earliest of the three privately owned copies of the cycle among the two hundred or so
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"Everything here is in miniature: a little avenue of lime trees, a pond the size of an aquarium, a little garden and park, little trees, but you stroll about a time or two, look closely, and the impression of smallness vanishes." So Anton Chekhov described the Melikhovo estate
Coming Up · Faith · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
I have been to the Georges de La Tour exhibition "Between Shadow and Light" at the Musée Jacquemart-André five times, and each time there was a queue at the door, but if I could get in once more, I would gladly go. So I am determined not
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Yesterday the Anton Chekhov Museum-Reserve hosted the opening of the "Melikhovo Spring" theatre festival. It will run for 10 days, with companies from 6 countries presenting more than 20 productions by Chekhov and about Chekhov on the festival's stages. The festival's open-air
Coming Up · Moscow · Museums
From 20 to 23 May Moscow will once again host an international festival devoted to museum affairs. Its public programme includes more than 60 free events: lectures, open discussions and interviews, guided tours and concerts. I suggest saving 6 events that are definitely worth attending! 📌The full schedule can be
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art has opened the exhibition "Writing in Fire. The Art of Enamel", a large-scale project devoted to one of the most difficult and beautiful branches of the decorative arts. The display brings together masterpieces of the enameller's art from