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The Gilyarovsky Foundation space on Stoleshnikov Lane has opened a pre-auction exhibition, One Woman and The Other; the auction itself will take place there on the evening of the 20th

The Gilyarovsky Foundation space on Stoleshnikov Lane has opened a pre-auction exhibition, One Woman and The Other; the auction itself will take place there on the evening of the 20th. As the title makes plain, the works are exclusively by women artists. We have already seen a few all-

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The Boy in the Silenus Mask Has Changed a Great Deal in 2,000 Years

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The Museum of Russian Impressionism has a bright, rich exhibition, Other Shores: Russian Art in New York, about the 1924 show that introduced the American public to Konchalovsky, Lentulov, Petrov-Vodkin, Polenov, Yuon, Vasnetsov…

The Museum of Russian Impressionism has a bright, rich exhibition, Other Shores: Russian Art in New York, about the 1924 show that introduced the American public to Konchalovsky, Lentulov, Petrov-Vodkin, Polenov, Yuon, Vasnetsov, Kustodiev, Arkhipov, Larionov, Grabar, Saryan and other outstanding names of Russian art. It was not the

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The Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire Made of Insects, 1842, Presented by an Author from Slovenia to His Colleagues, the Moscow Naturalists

Over the long years the picture has been restored more than once, and by our day all the insects, originally natives of the Illyrian Provinces, have been replaced by insects born, lived and died on Russian soil. One might say that this curious heraldic trinket has, in the end, become

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Proverb about futile effort on one panel of Pieter Bruegel’s cycle “12 Proverbs”

Pieter Bruegel has a cycle of “Twelve Proverbs”. On one of the panels we see what appears to be a soak pissing at the moon. The inscription reads: “I never get what I want, I always piss at the moon.” The expression means “to waste time on futile efforts”. The

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literally any classical subject

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Have You No Shame Before the Guests, Jupiter!

Have you no shame before the guests, Jupiter! New gods never come to mortals naked. Jupiter, Juno, Minerva. Roman sculptures. Most probably grave goods. Weißenburg Roman Museum.

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Initiatives worth noting: contemporary Russian artists have designed posters for the screenings of the Street Cinema Festival in their home towns

Initiatives worth noting: contemporary Russian artists have designed posters for the screenings of the Street Cinema Festival in their home towns. Among the authors are Anya Samoylova, Misha Goodwin, Vladimir Abikh, Mayana Nasybullova, Sasha Gordeyev, Maxim Trulov and Ksyusha Lastochka

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Evelyn Dunbar's 1943 painting “Harvest Season” and the Women's Land Army

Comrades at Work. A painting by the British artist Evelyn Dunbar, Harvest Time, 1943. The canvas documents the existence of a phenomenon known as the Women's Land Army, which first appeared in Great Britain during the First World War as a public organisation for assisting with agricultural labour.

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The artist Vladimir Seleznev, in the company of the curator Vladislav Efimov, talks about his project "Oseyev", devoted to an invented utopian metropolis, the result of uncontrolled standardised building on urban land, which proved to be unwanted and fell

The artist Vladimir Seleznev, in the company of the curator Vladislav Efimov, talks about his project "Oseyev", devoted to an invented utopian metropolis, the result of uncontrolled standardised building on urban land, which proved to be unwanted and fell into decline. Seleznev problematises the frenzied mass construction in

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Why Does Dürer's Walrus Look So Much Like a Man from the Next Staircase Along?

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Late 18th-Century Satirical Print Contrasts a Libertine with a Skeleton

A satirical engraving of the late 18th century: a bon vivant with all the marks of dissipation (dice and cards, horse races, fashions and diverting novelettes) and, in opposition to him, a pensive corpse leaning on a stele bearing an edifying text. In theory, the picture is meant to remind