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The cabinet had earlier directed 3.5 billion to projects in the field of culture and the arts, but First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Kiriyenko (who also chairs the committee for the conduct of competitions for presidential grants) has clarified that, for an objective and complete picture, the
Faith · Art · Heritage · Rome
There are two Risen Christs by Michelangelo. The better known statue stands to the left of the high altar of the Roman church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. The frenzied churchmen of the Baroque age fitted this sculpture with a hideous bronze loincloth, so as not to be embarrassed by
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The Death of Prince Napoléon. Paul Joseph Jamin, 1882
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
At Garage, Natalia Turnova's Egg and Stone have been installed, and they can be viewed for free, since they are displayed in the museum foyer. The idols will last until 22 August and will most likely be destroyed, which is a pity, as I would gladly have installed
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Standard-Bearer, The Monstrous Sow, Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, The Virgin with the Pear, Saint Jerome in His Study. The exhibition of Dürer's engravings at the State Historical Museum makes a very powerful impression. And, incidentally, unlike many critics, I have no quarrel with the
Art · Museums
A witty dialogue between painters, or an amusing family tradition? The first image is a work of 1688 by the French Baroque painter Hyacinthe Rigaud, showing the 21-year-old Jean-Baptiste Mongino, whose biography will tell us little, with an oval portrait of his young wife. The next canvas,
In the Press · Art · Moscow · Museums
How to Enjoy Speculations and Fakes at the New Exhibition at Garage? At the height of the pandemic, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art invited artists to reflect on the future, and the result is a large exhibition, "Choosing Distance: Speculations, Fakes, Forecasts in the Age of the Coronacene&
Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages · Ethnography
At a tiny exhibition at Hide Gallery in Cube.Moscow I came across this island talisman. The sculpture has a most interesting history: the gallerists found it in the studio of an artist who carves such figures from coral in some little village in the Seychelles, to protect his family
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Tropinin's portrait of Pushkin and the posthumous portrait by Karl Masur. In both, the poet wears a ring with a red stone on his thumb. Around this ring, one of Pushkin's favourite, a great many legends have clustered ever since it first appeared. They begin with
Art · Cinema · Museums · New York · Humour
Four-year-old Luise Perthes, captured by her parents' friend Philipp Otto Runge at the moment she realised that in the future she was destined to become a misanthropic lady with pigeons, wandering Central Park in New York in search of Kevin McCallister. Portrait of 1805, environs of Hamburg.
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A chamber exhibition of Juan Miguel Palacios has opened at Polina Askery's gallery. The Spanish artist works in a unique technique, using paper, plasterboard, acrylic, cement, stone, wood and other most unexpected materials. Palacios's attention is centred on female images. The pictures, as you can see,
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