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Retrospective for the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Veysberg at the Pushkin Museum

The Pushkin Museum's Gallery of European and American Art hosts "From Colour to Light", an exhibition marking the centenary of Vladimir Veisberg, a landmark figure of Soviet unofficial art. It offers a unique chance to see a retrospective of the creator of the "white on

Cubist painting in ochre, brown and blue tones with angular figures and pale drapery on the left.

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The painting “Friendship” by Pablo Picasso, created in 1908

Friendship. Pablo Picasso, 1908

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The Gnezdo Art Group of Donskoy, Roshal and Skersis and Its Action at the VDNKh Exhibition

A Graph of History. The Gnezdo group, 1976. Gnezdo ("The Nest") was an art group founded by the artists Gennady Donskoy, Mikhail Roshal and Viktor Skersis, active from 1975 to 1979. The group took its name from the art action "Quiet! Experiment in Progress", staged at

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Tatyana Grigoryevna Nazarenko, Museum of the Revolution, 1989

The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val

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At last, I have made it to Yury Zlotnikov's exhibition "Signal Systems" at the New Tretyakov Gallery

At last, I have made it to Yury Zlotnikov's exhibition "Signal Systems" at the New Tretyakov Gallery. It is most gratifying that Zlotnikov's personal notes are on show, explaining his method and offering a glimpse of his reflections on what a point is, for

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Alexander Konstantinov's Objects at GES-2

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Stalin Reads a Newspaper

Georgy Rublev, 1935

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The Execution of Beatrice Cenci and the Portrait Now Attributed to Ginevra Cantofoli

Portrait of Beatrice Cenci, a Roman beauty of the very end of the sixteenth century, executed on a charge of murdering her own father. The tragedy in one of the wealthiest families of Italy shocked contemporaries: a daughter, a wife and a son conspire to kill the head of a

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Details. A tapestry in the Lateran Palace, residence of the Vicar General of Rome

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Mark Rothko retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris: impressions of the show

The Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris has closed its major retrospective of Mark Rothko (1903-1970), the most significant ever devoted to the artist. Since October it has unfailingly drawn formidable queues. They say that the scenography of the exhibition follows the artist's own instructions, but can one

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The Sword of the Hospodar of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, the First Ruler of United Romania, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza

Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza forwarded arms from Russia to the Serbian government, needed to withstand the West and the Ottoman Empire. Despite the encroachments of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, backed by Austria and England, Cuza did not allow the convoy to be stopped. In recognition of Alexandru Cuza&