Art · Books · Society · Pop Culture
The auction house Christie's has created a separate global pop culture department, which will hold several sales a year and offer objects connected with cinema and television, music and musical instruments, sport, science and technology, natural history, fashion and popular design. Christie's spent several years studying
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Science
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired a newly discovered painting by Diego Velázquez. The work is the first piece by the seventeenth-century Spanish master in the museum's collection. Velázquez painted the bust-length portrait around 1626; it depicts Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares.
Art · NB! · Monarchies
A painting by Mikhail Klodt
Coming Up · Art · Observations
In 1972, at Documenta 5, the group Haus-Rucker-Co hung a transparent bubble with a palm tree inside out of a window of the Fridericianum and called it an oasis. This came two years after Verner Panton had upholstered an entire room in foam and abolished the distinction between
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Art · Coming Up · Moscow · Museums
The All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art shows Vrubel from the side by which he is least known. The exhibition runs from 18 September 2026 to 17 February 2027 and is timed to the artist's 170th anniversary. The conception is built around ceramics. The visitor learns that for
Coming Up · Moscow · Art · Books
The Ekaterina Culture Foundation on Kuznetsky Most has opened an exhibition, "A History of Black". Its point of departure is the book by the French historian Michel Pastoureau, who for several decades has been writing biographies of colours and has already published volumes on blue, green, red and
Architecture · Moscow · Coming Up · Art
Art at the entrance of a building has long ceased to be a rarity: the golden “Prometheus” has stood in Rockefeller Center since 1934, Picasso's work in Chicago's Daley Plaza since 1967, and there is no need to look far afield: Savitsky's famous sculpture
Art · Museums · Heritage
On the afternoon of 17 September a sudden downpour struck Florence, with almost five centimetres of rain falling in a single hour. Water made its way into the Uffizi Gallery and dripped onto the case protecting Caravaggio's "Bacchus". A video filmed inside the museum and posted
Coming Up · Art · Paris · Pop Culture
During Art Basel this year, Sotheby's will open an exhibition apartment on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris, overlooking the Tuileries Garden, with works worth nearly $150 million on display. None of them will go under the hammer: all are offered for private sale, that is, a transaction
Archive · Geography · Art · Observations · Ethnography
I got lost in reading about Australia today and came across a drawing entitled "Conflict witnessed in 1845 at the Sherburn sheep station, at the confluence of the Goulburn River". The author is tentatively identified as a certain J. Phillips. The piece belongs to the collection of the
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
What does Titian say to Cardinal Filippo Archinto? Quite right: I'll finish it later