Art · Humour
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
Art · People · Nature
A tiny, touching pug puppy is literally drowning in a sumptuous velvet armchair of a rich scarlet. Heine was a master of German Jugendstil and one of the founders of the legendary satirical magazine Simplicissimus; he was born in Leipzig in 1867, received a classical education at the Düsseldorf Academy
The East · Art · Mores
A painting by Peter Paul Rubens plunges the viewer into the dramatic history of the Ancient East. The subject is taken from the life of Queen Artemisia, who ruled Caria in the fourth century BC. This realm lay on the territory of present-day Turkey and formed part of the
The Golden Age · Art · Paris · People
Édouard Boubat was a French photographer and an acknowledged classic of the humanist school. While his contemporaries recorded social cataclysms, Boubat deliberately sought in his viewfinder moments of pure joy, tenderness and everyday harmony. Having survived the horrors of the Second World War and forced labour, he returned to his
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · People
On 30 September the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre will mark the birthday of its artistic director Boris Yukhananov, who died a year ago. The programme of the evening, titled "Picnic. Requiem", includes the opening of an exhibition and the presentation of the Foundation and of the festival "Boris Yukhananov
The Golden Age · Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · People
Until 31 December the Galeev Gallery is showing an exhibition of Alexey Fyodorovich Pakhomov, Leningrad graphic artist, book illustrator, painter and porcelain master. The curators, Ildar Galeev and Kasia Denisevich, have for the first time tried to bring together what is usually scattered among museums and family archives: paintings, sketches
Art · Coming Up · London · People · Pop Culture
Hockney died in June 2026 at the age of 88. In 2018 his painting "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sold at Christie's in New York for $90.3 million, and Hockney was then considered the most expensive living artist. In the painting Hockney
The East · Art · Museums · Society
On 25 September the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveiled a work commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in Sydney. The installation, entitled "Mushrooms", consists of 500 cast-iron soldiers' helmets, which the artist has arranged in ten even rows on the Tallawoladah lawn. This lawn
The East · Art · Museums · Heritage · Society
On 24 September Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan, wife of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, visited the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington. The First Ladies came to the museum during the diplomatic visit of the Chinese delegation, while their husbands remained at the White
Art · Museums · Heritage · Society
The British government has temporarily barred the export from the country of the bronze statuette "Seated Nymph" by the Italian sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, whom his contemporaries nicknamed Antico. Experts have valued the statuette at £4.6 million. The temporary bar gives British museums and galleries time
Art · Archive · Museums · Heritage
The Bavarian State Painting Collections have returned to the heirs of Sophie Heilbronner, née Wimpfheimer, the painting "Music (Arcadian Scene)" by the German artist Albert Lang, painted in 1892. The Bavarian State Painting Collections bring together the museums of Munich, among them the Alte and Neue Pinakothek. The
Art · Books · Society · Pop Culture
The auction house Christie's has created a separate global pop culture department, which will hold several sales a year and offer objects connected with cinema and television, music and musical instruments, sport, science and technology, natural history, fashion and popular design. Christie's spent several years studying