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Gorod Ustinov microterritory presents TEKTO installation with collections from Apatity

Andrey Malakhov is the first to see the new project of the micro-territory "City of Ustinov". This year the residents of the micro-territory are presenting a platform for cultural exchange, "Museum with Delivery". The museum can be seen at the stand of the Siyanie

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Saint Jerome in a cardinal's hat and the meaning of his books in a work by Giorgio Schiavone

Saint Jerome with a cardinal's galero (the name of the hat is spelt precisely with an "a", and the plural is galeri) slung over his shoulders: from beneath his beard peeps the red tassel of the hat's cords. Work by Giorgio Schiavone, 1556-61.

Black-and-white group photograph of seven men in a studio, with a round emblem showing a playing-card jack and the words “Jack of Diamonds” on the left.

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Review of the first painting exhibition “Jack of Diamonds” at the Levisson house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 1910

"This shameless card... recalls an asylum for the insane rather than an exhibition of works of art" From a review of the first Exhibition of Painting, "The Jack of Diamonds", which opened in the Levisson house on Bolshaya Dmitrovka on 10 December 1910

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Angels in lapis-lazuli robes and white chaplets of roses, gathered about the Virgin and Christ Child on the right-hand panel of the Wilton Diptych, the celebrated monument of Gothic panel painting of the late fourteenth century, have become a riddle for a

The principal explanations come down to the personal iconography of King Richard II, who is himself portrayed kneeling on the left-hand panel with his patron saints John the Baptist, Edward the Confessor and Edmund the Martyr. Eleven was the number of gold coins that Richard offered to the Virgin

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Vyacheslav Akhunov’s installation “Mantras of the USSR”, developed by the artist since 1975

When Miziano and Krasteva, the curators of the exhibition "Service of Time" at Garage, wrote about the relation between spiritual labour and time, and about the different forms time may take in art, what did they have in mind, and how is it expressed in t. Step, say,

Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations

Dobryninskaya Metro Station (formerly Serpukhovskaya) Is Adorned with 16 Refined Bas-Reliefs by Yelena Yanson-Manizer, Wife of the Author of the Bronze Sculptures at Ploshchad Revolyutsii

The marble reliefs depict, for the most part, agricultural workers. This is presumably meant to allude to the chief farming trade of each Soviet republic. Why 16 republics? There were 15 Union republics, the RSFSR included, from 1956 onwards; in 1950, however, when the station opened, there was still the

Painting of a nude woman lying on a bed, holding a book above her face, with other books scattered beside her.

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A reader of novels in a painting by Antoine Wiertz in his museum in Brussels

If you want to feel lucky, simply know that in Brussels all the museums will reopen for the FIRST time since the start of the pandemic only on 15 October. To begin doubting your own luck, consider that this reader of novels in Antoine Wiertz's painting, from his

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Tomorrow Two Very Impressive Exhibitions Open at Garage:

Spirit Labor, dedicated to the memory of Nikita Alexeev, brings together 40 works by the best-known artists from various countries who have explored time. The curators are Andrey Misiano and Snezhana Krasteva. Among the authors are the greatest names in world art, from Yury Albert to On Kawara, and

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Liberale da Verona, Saint Jerome and the Lion

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Took a cursory look at the Blazar young art fair: pleasing to see how the project has grown in a year: many new partners, new architecture, lecture halls for professionals, and as many as 20 galleries received free stands…

Took a cursory look at the Blazar young art fair: pleasing to see how the project has grown in a year: many new partners, new architecture, lecture halls for professionals, and as many as 20 galleries received free stands (up to 3 artists each). Prices, admittedly, have also risen noticeably,

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The signature cross on the tombstone of that very René Lalique at Père Lachaise cemetery

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Tomorrow at 6.30 p.m. a new monument to Fyodor Mikhailovich is due to be unveiled beside the "Dostoevsky" bookshop; this year he is, after all, 200

Tomorrow at 6.30 p.m. a new monument to Fyodor Mikhailovich is due to be unveiled beside the "Dostoevsky" bookshop; this year he is, after all, 200. The previous Dostoevsky sits literally 20 metres away, on the little patch by the Lenin Library, where he has been