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Ed Reinhardt's black painting at MoMA in New York and a trustee's resignation

A woman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1964. Photograph by Burt Glinn. After the painting in this photograph was put on display at MoMA, one of the trustees promptly resigned his seat on the board. What we see here is, of course, not Malevich's Black

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From the makers of “I Haven’t Had My Fill of Fun Yet” and “I’m Perfectly Fine on My Own”

Jemal Kukhalashvili, Tbilisi Museum of Fine Arts

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One of Romadin's drawings for the film "Solaris" features Saint Sebastian pierced by arrows, who may have appeared in early versions of the script or the director's preliminary work, but is absent from the final version

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Visualisation by production designer Mikhail Romadin and a still from Tarkovsky's Solaris

Illustration of a man seen from behind facing a wall of pipes and instruments, beside a metal door with a cracked surface and a hand reaching through it.

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Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin and his illustrations for Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Solaris”

Illustrations for Andrei Tarkovsky's production of the film Solaris. Artist: Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin

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When Tarkovsky, the cinematographer Yusov and I had only just begun work on the film "Solaris", we managed to see a new film: Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"

When Tarkovsky, the cinematographer Yusov and I had only just begun work on the film "Solaris", we managed to see a new film: Stanley Kubrick's "A Space Odyssey". We wanted to do something directly opposite. Recalled by Mikhail Nikolayevich Romadin (1940–2012), production designer

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Who Would Have Thought Rubens Would Suit Johnson So Well

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Honoré Daumier, Bathers, 1852–53

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This hanging in the Large Dining Room of the collector Sergei Shchukin's house was called the Gauguin iconostasis by the art critic Yakov Tugendhold

This hanging in the Large Dining Room of the collector Sergei Shchukin's house was called the Gauguin iconostasis by the art critic Yakov Tugendhold. At the exhibition in the Hermitage, the iconostasis could be reproduced almost in its entirety

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Cult statue of Artemis of Ephesus and the fate of the temple, one of the Seven Wonders

This is what the cult statue from the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, looks like. It is the very temple that was burnt down by Herostratus in 356 BC, reputedly on the day of the birth of Alexander the Great. Alexander of

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Display of the exhibition "Sergei Shchukin's Choice"

The display of the exhibition "Sergei Shchukin's Choice. The Birth of Modern Art" at the Hermitage reproduces the hanging of the paintings in Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin's Moscow house, in the Music Room, the Pink Drawing Room, the Large Dining Room, the Cézanne Study and

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Paintings by Matisse and Pavel Kuznetsov from the Morozov collection at the Pushkin Museum

Standing between Henri Matisse's "Moroccan Triptych" and Pavel Kuznetsov's "Mirage in the Steppe". Thanks are due to the curators of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, and of course to the great Russian patrons, the Morozovs, for placing on a single