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The exhibition “Square and Space” opens at GES-2, with works from Malevich to the Kabakovs

The "Square and Space" exhibition, curated by Zelfira Tregulova and Francesco Bonami, has opened at GES-2. Judging by the sheer number of first-rank names gathered for it, this is an event of international standing. According to the curators' conception, in the first quarter of the

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A remarkable, vivid and absorbing exhibition, "Threads", has opened at the Ruarts Foundation

A highly representative, almost textbook selection of artists who work with textiles in every conceivable form, as the exhibition's curator Nina Gomiashvili writes in her foreword, took as its point of departure Hans Christian Andersen's nettle coats of mail, but has grown into a museum-grade

Copper octopus sculpture with outstretched tentacles set against an arched window with a dark grille and a border of shells.

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Octopus in the decor of the main entrance of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris

The octopus decorating the main entrance of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris. Dedicated to lovers of Art Nouveau

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AZ/ART Centre of Contemporary Art opens in Moscow with the exhibition “Non-Obvious Intersections”

Another serious cultural institution has appeared on the map of Moscow: the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art. The centre is housed in a historic seventeenth-century building on Maroseika. Its opening is marked by an exhibition, a joint project with the Foundation of the composer Nikolai Karetnikov, entitled "

Art · Books · Saint Petersburg

Dmitry Kedrin's poem “Beauty” about Russia, 5 September 1942

"1918 in Petrograd" and "Our Lady of Tenderness Towards Evil Hearts", Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Beauty These proud brows of Vincian Madonnas I have met more than once on Russian peasant women, On young Ryazan wives, bent double with toil, Threshing sheaves on the threshing-floor at

Art · Observations · Humour

"A New Life Begins" or "Dante and Beatrice in the Garden"

Painter: Cesare Saccaggi, 1903 If anyone has been wanting to begin a new life, why not today? Even without Beatrice.

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In the 16th to 18th Centuries Rome Was One of the Most Depicted Cities in the World

In the 16th to 18th centuries Rome was one of the most depicted cities in the world. Dozens of vedutisti from many countries sought to capture its appearance. This allows us today to trace every stage of the city's transformation and its different faces: from the melancholy landscapes

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Mask of a River God from a Roman Sarcophagus of the Third Century

From the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition "Three Times of Rome. Antiquity. Renaissance. Baroque"

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Jan Keser and Martin Zimmermann's flying cathedral for the bicentenary of the canton of St. Gallen

The Flying Cathedral is a project by the artists Jan Keser and Martin Zimmermann, timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the Swiss canton of St Gallen. The balloon was conceived as a flying advertisement for the canton and its chief symbol, the Baroque Cathedral of St Gallen of

Pen drawing on a pale sheet showing six pillows from different angles, with the date 1493 written at the top.

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Albrecht Dürer’s drawing of six pillows, made in 1493

Good morning! Six cushions by Albrecht Dürer, 1493

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The Inscription on the Stone in Vasnetsov's "Knight at the Crossroads"

"Go straight ahead, and you'll not stay alive; there is no way for rider, walker or flyer." Yet, by Vasnetsov's own account, the text has a continuation, borrowed from the epic tale (bylina) and hidden by him beneath a layer of moss: "Go

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