Coming Up · Art · Reportage · Humour
Comrades, reporting from the artist's studio, I can announce that Lyokha Kyoujay and I have tallied the results of the competition to finish the comic. The winner is Dmitry V., who guessed, quite literally, how it all really happened. As promised, the holder of first place will receive
Art · Society · Humour
France. Conscription by lot. A peasant is handed a hat containing two tickets: the black one will send him off to serve, the white one will exempt him from military duty and, on the whole, save his life. The fellow twigs that both tickets in the hat are in fact
Art · London · Museums · Paris · Humour
How many summers, how many winters: a heartfelt reunion of brothers-in-arms. Embracing infants from Nicolas Poussin's painting "The Nurture of Bacchus" in the Louvre collection. The canvas is currently undergoing restoration, which is a good moment to recall the dispute over its attribution: the
Art · Books · Observations · Pop Culture
An early star has fallen, there is coolness in the fields, A ferry glides, the water sings of something close by. And where the river gleams by a quiet grove, A grey-haired ferryman joins the banks together. There are so many partings on earth, and so many different fates,
Art · Heritage · Society · Humour
On Sunday morning a new monument to Napoleon appeared in Rouen: on a bicycle, in a worn tracksuit, Air Maxes and Lacoste, in the colours of a food courier's uniform, and in a Napoleonic bicorne. The art object has been installed on the plinth of the real monument
NB! · Art · Observations · Mores · Humour
NB! · Art · Mores · Humour
A brooch "Look me in the eye, I want to say I'll forget you, I won't weep", with the portrait of a lover's eye, as you will understand. England, early nineteenth century
Art · Museums · Observations · Paris · Humour
It must be said, a very good likeness: you have scarcely changed, my dear
Art · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
All the best things were invented in antiquity. Take this hairstyle of the Empress Julia Domna, wife of Septimius Severus. I understand that few would expend so much effort on arranging their hair, especially in the absence of slave labour, but it looks positively regal. Incidentally, I commend the maker
Art · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages · Humour
Maxim Boxer asks: how much is this Shelkovsky? The reply: the work is not for sale, it is a museum exhibit, you are at the stand of the Multimedia Art Museum. A pity
Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
And here is my first purchase. A heraldic Moscow lily; a pity it is not a swallowtail. The work of Anna Tagantseva-Kobzeva, who mixes mystical motifs, science, actuarial-network theory and object-oriented ontology. The price of 300 euros is close to archaic cults, and seems to answer the
Art · Moscow · Society Pages · Humour
Presentation of the ninth Cosmoscow season at the Manege. An empty chair beneath the portrait of Olga Sviblova serves as a reminder of the joke about Olga Lvovna's famous punctuality. ps The best stand at the fair was judged to be that of the Szena Gallery