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David Teniers, painter of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century
Supper with the Witches. The Dutch Golden Age painter David Teniers, seventeenth century
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Ilya Kabakov, a castle from Susanna Georgievskaya's book "Auntie Toothache"
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The Gao Brothers under Chinese Government Scrutiny and Their Secret Exhibitions
In China, the artist and sculptor Gao Shen, who works as a duo with his younger brother, has been arrested. The activities of the Gao brothers have always been under the close scrutiny of the Chinese authorities. Their anti-government stance is partly explained by the fact that in the
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
First stage of Open Storage at the Garage Museum presents Russian art since the 1980s
I went to see the Garage Museum's Open Storage. Ever since I first got to know the museum, I had been waiting for its own collection, so I count this important event in Russian museum life as important for myself as well. Perhaps my expectations of the Open
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Study of the Wadlow family portrait, a possible lifetime image of Shakespeare
Stephen Wadlow, a 58-year-old window cleaner from Aylesbury (Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom), has spent more than ten years trying to prove that he owns the only portrait of Shakespeare painted in his lifetime. Stephen's father, Peter Wadlow, an antiques dealer, bought the portrait at the Great Tew
NB! · Art · Mores · People · Humour
When Peggy Guggenheim was asked how many husbands she had had, she replied: “My own, or other women’s?”
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The Museum of Russian Impressionism is showing an exhibition devoted to one of the first glossy magazines of pre-revolutionary Russia, "Capital and Country Estate", which first appeared in 1913
The Museum of Russian Impressionism is showing an exhibition devoted to one of the first glossy magazines of pre-revolutionary Russia, "Capital and Country Estate" (Stolitsa i usadba), which first appeared in 1913. The display brings together paintings from 44 museums and 14 private collections that either appeared
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The Alien who regarded Ellen Ripley as its mother and her departure by spaceship
Rex Whistler in 1934 and David Fincher in 1992. To be perfectly honest, one has always felt sorry for that poor Alien, especially in the instalment where he took Ellen Ripley for his mother, and she flew off in a spaceship without him
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Jaspar de Isaac, Dealer in Horns and Antlers, 1634
Those who have none of these fine wares, gentlemen, need not haggle here; the most ridiculous and the most magnificent of men buy them
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Can you name an artist who never painted flowers?
Can you name an artist who never painted flowers? As the exhibition Something about flowers at the Alina Pinsky Gallery has shown, even in František Kupka, if one is so inclined, a vase of flowers can be found. The exhibition, which is much to my liking, tells, as it were,
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Another selection of the main discoveries of Moscow's museums and art galleries in our regular column
✔️The exhibition "ART-Workshop XXI. A Mirror for the Artist" at the exhibition hall of the Zaryadye Media Centre, Varvarka 6/1, until 15 September. ✔️The exhibition by Pavel Efanov and Alla Polkovnichenko, "Urban Romantics", at the Vykhino Gallery of the Moscow Exhibition Halls Association, Tashkentskaya
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Hastings plans a contemporary art gallery that can be viewed on skis
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, whose fortune is estimated at $4.7 billion, is to open an art gallery right on a ski slope, at the 3,433-hectare Powder Mountain resort in Eden, Utah, which he recently acquired. It is planned that the pictures may be viewed without taking