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Moscow Biennale of Young Art opens competition for curators under 35

The Moscow Biennale of Young Art announces an open international competition for curators under the age of 35 to take part in the main project. Applications are accepted from 18 November to 18 January on the website youngart.ru.

A young woman in a bright headscarf writes at a desk with an inkstand, with ears of wheat, letters and a book beside her.

Art · Society · Humour

Konstantin Dorokhov’s painting “Deputy. Collective Farm Chairwoman”, created in 1951

The Soviet Union had not only sex but also magnificent women deputies, and, of course, excellent feminitives. Konstantin Gavrilovich Dorokhov, "Deputy. Collective Farm Chairwoman", 1951

Octagonal brooch with a large blue stone at the centre, set in an openwork gold frame with diamonds, on a display stand.

Art · London · Monarchies · Museums

Brooch with a large blue stone at the Fabergé exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum

This striking aquamarine brooch was given by Nicholas II, then still Tsesarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, to Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt, the future Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, on their betrothal. The brooch is on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Fabergé exhibition

Art · Observations · Humour

Medieval image of a woman hammering infants on an anvil personifies Nature

The popular medieval scene of a woman pounding infants laid on an anvil with a blacksmith's hammer is in fact a personification of Nature, who gives birth to children in her forge. She is merely giving her offspring the proper shape, so there is nothing to gawp at

NB! · Art · Observations · Humour

Why do all the sitters in the paintings of the Dutch painter Godfried Schalcken have the same face, just like Moscow's party girls?

Gold mask made of a thin, crumpled metal sheet with raised nose, brows and lips, and small holes along the edges.

Archaeology · Art · Ethnography · Humour

Gold funerary mask of the Lambayeque culture from northern Peru, 8th to 10th century

You Look Better on Social Media... Golden funerary mask of the Lambayeque culture of northern Peru, 8th to 10th centuries.

NB! · The East · Art · People

The Work of Shira Barzilay, an Artist from Tel Aviv

NB! · Interviews · Art · Paris · People

The new issue of Elle France carries a major interview with Annie Leibovitz

The new issue of Elle France carries a major interview with Annie Leibovitz. Solène Delos spoke to Annie on the occasion of her being awarded the William Klein Prize and the opening of Leibovitz's exhibition at the Académie des Beaux-Arts

NB! · Archive · Art · Paris · Humour

Alphonse Mucha snaps Paul Gauguin playing the harmonium in his studio without trousers

Close-up of a marble statue whose hands hold a foot, with a bust of a bearded man visible behind it in a museum gallery.

NB! · Archaeology · Art

The sculptural subject “Boy Removing a Thorn”, known since the 3rd century BC

Art That Makes You Feel: The Boy Removing a Thorn. A subject known since the 3rd century BC.

NB! · Art · Humour

Sir, Kindly Flail Your Arms Elsewhere

Sir, kindly flail your arms elsewhere. Adrien de Lelie, 1792.

Art · Museums · Mores · Humour

A NATIVE CHILD TO THE OUTSKIRTS?

That is what the painting is actually called. The artist is Akhmet Kitayev, and it belongs to the collection of the Simferopol Art Museum. The canvas dates from 1954, yet the mise-en-scène is thoroughly modern. The family scene, familiar to everyone, recalls Squid Game more than anything else: