Faith · Art · Ethnography

The Annunciation in Holy Week, the fasting rules and the rare Kyriopascha

This year the Annunciation coincides with Holy Week and falls on one of the most demanding days of the Lenten liturgical year. Such a coincidence is rare, but not unheard of. What is truly exceptional is another matter: when the Annunciation falls exactly on Easter Day, it is called Kyriopascha,

Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums

A new selection of recent exhibitions and openings in Moscow this week

📌 Exhibition “Legacy of an Era. Semyon Chuikov”: until 12 July, Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya The founder of Kyrgyz fine art: shepherds, mountain landscapes, “Daughter of Soviet Kyrgyzstan” and other canvases from the Tretyakov, the Russian Museum and the Kyrgyz National Museum. 📌 Exhibition “Beatrissa Sandomirskaya”: until 21 June, Pushkin State Museum

Archive · Art · Books · Education

F is for Themis and Frankincense

Yot, Yery, the Soft Sign and the Hard Sign are stuck up a tree. From the Russian Alphabet in Painted Pictures on Canvas. Saint Petersburg: Published by M. O. Wolf.

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Petrol Station in Greece, photograph by Dimitris Mellos, 2006

Multi-figure painting of a crowd with palm branches greeting a rider on a donkey, with cloths spread on the ground and hills behind.

Faith · Art

Painting by contemporary Russian artist Igor Sushenok on the Entry into Jerusalem

The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem. The author, incidentally, is the contemporary Russian artist Igor Sushenok

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Good morning from the Chinese artist Wang Fansen

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Contemporary Art and the City

Art · Moscow · Observations · Reportage

Vin-Vin fair of young artists at Vinzavod, with works from 2,000 to 300,000

The Winzavod annual gathering of young artists from the market has turned into the Win-Win fair. A rather pleasant way to spend a day off. There are plenty of all sorts of young people, not yet spoiled by the word "art", waiting for you to come and

Archaeology · Art · Museums

Diorite statue of a pharaoh and the god Horus changes its look with the viewing angle

One of the most famous masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art, found in the temple complex beside the pyramid of the pharaoh Khafre at Giza: the diorite statue of Khafre, dating from around 2570 BC. Diorite is one of the hardest stones. But the remarkable feature of this sculpture is its

Art · London · Museums · Pop Culture

Eileen Agar's straw hat with Schiaparelli gloves at the V&A exhibition

British artist Eileen Agar's straw hat with Schiaparelli gloves at the exhibition Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, which opened in March at the V&A. Agar attached to the straw hat a pair of gloves with painted red fingernails, as a reference to a Schiaparelli design of 1928.

Architecture · Art · Museums

Sofas with gilded mermen in the Kedleston Hall drawing room, designed by Robert Adam

Possibly one of the greatest works of the furniture-maker's art: the pair of sofas with sea deities, made in 1765 by John Linnell, one of the first English cabinet-makers. The sofas still occupy their place in the drawing room of Kedleston Hall in central England, in

NB! · Architecture · Art · Humour

"The Fly", a sculptural installation by the contemporary Bulgarian artist and sculptor Georgi Balabanov, placed on the wall of the House of Humour and Satire in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, in 2011