Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
📌 Exhibition of porcelain graphics and paintings by Alexander Traugot at the Île Thélème gallery, until 25 November 📌 Exhibition of diploma works by graduates of Moscow art colleges, “GRADUATION’25”, at the Zaryadye Parking Gallery, until 30 November 📌 Exhibition on Moscow's principal park of the 1930s, “Gorky Park. The
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📌 Group exhibition “Moscow Nonconformists. In Search of Identity” at Arts Square Gallery, until 26 October 📌 24 October: opening of an exhibition from Polina Bondareva's private collection in the new space masters:dom on Sofiyskaya Embankment 📌 Collective exhibition “The Time of Unhurriedness” in the Vaults of the GES-2
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
At times it seems to me that museums of classical art are temples not so much of beauty as of discipline, intellectual discipline included, naturally. We often go there not for inspiration but for confirmation that our world can still be explained, at least a little. And yet, after dozens
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Metal bars, beds, hospital wards, kettles: all these are not mere objects but traces of presence, occasions for reflection. Her paintings seemed almost empty, yet it was in that very emptiness that their strength was born. Anna wrote short phrases on the canvas, as though keeping a private diary: "
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📌 Closing soon: “Alexander Deyneka. A Hymn to Life” at the Tretyakov Gallery, until 26 October 📌 Closing soon: “Ilya Mashkov. Avant-Garde. Kitsch. Classic” at the Tretyakov Gallery, until 26 October 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition of non-figurative painting and graphic art “Dialogues Without Words” at the Belyaevo Gallery, until 26
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The final week of the exhibition “Arkady Plastov. Graphic Works. 1930s” at the Open Club gallery: until 14 October 7 October: opening of the exhibition “Masterpieces of Kazakhstan Art” at the New Tretyakov Gallery: until 23 November The exhibition “Ivan Filatov. The History of the Village of Izhevskoye. 1890s–1930s”
Coming Up · Geography · Science
On 27 September 1825, the locomotive Locomotion No. 1, designed by George Stephenson, drew a train along the Stockton and Darlington line in the north-east of England. The name Locomotion soon became a common noun: the word "locomotive" came to be applied not only to steam engines
Coming Up · Art · Paris
The work in question is a painting entitled "Bust of a Woman in a Flowered Hat", which depicts Dora Maar, the artist's muse and lover. Until now this portrait was known to specialists and admirers of the Spanish painter's work only from black-and-
Coming Up · New York · Pop Culture
On 28 September, Jamie Lloyd's production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot will open at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway. Although Reeves first appeared on the stage as long ago as 1985, playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Waiting for Godot will be his first Broadway
NB! · Coming Up · Art · Observations · Humour
At Kosmoskow they announced that a potash fertiliser plant in Lipetsk will host either a festival of contemporary art or a biennale. Evidently, instead of fertilisers, Russia is preparing to supply the world market with children's drawings
Coming Up · Art · Moscow
For the second year running, the blazar young art fair, companion to the international contemporary art fair Cosmocow, features a design section showing the work of the boldest and most talented young artists and designers. Among the section's new stands is the display by Lamoda home, which presents
Coming Up · Art · Saint Petersburg
A week ago I wrote about the then forthcoming exhibition of collector Zoya Galeeva's collection at the Anna Nova gallery in Saint Petersburg. Today I offer a friendly reminder that the exhibition is open and ready to receive guests and residents of the cultural capital. Zoya Galeeva has