Art · Museums · Rome · Humour
Who are you, creature? What are you? Marble sculpture Boy in the Mask of the Satyr Silenus. 1st century AD, Villa Ludovisi. It probably captures a scene from the ritual festivities in honour of Dionysus, in which the figure of Silenus, one of his tutors, held an important place.
Architecture · Art · Moscow
The first sight of Moscow. John Pott Laslett. On 2 September Napoleon approached Moscow and climbed Poklonnaya Hill, expecting that at any moment, somewhere near Dragomilovo, a delegation of townspeople would present him with the keys to the city. But by that day, of the 270,000 inhabitants the ancient
Faith · Art · Mores · Ethnography
Kustodiev's Easter paintings: The Exchange of Easter Greetings, Bright Resurrection, Easter Day, The Easter Service, Easter Eve. The most famous, of course, is The Exchange of Easter Greetings of 1916, with a merchant and his wife kissing before a rich festive table laid with kulich, paskha, eggs, meat,
Art · Museums · Observations · Society
Meanwhile, in Zheleznogorsk, a town of a hundred thousand in the Kursk region, the Tsikoriy (“Chicory”) Centre for Contemporary Art has opened. The governor himself came to the opening, no less. The centre was launched with the support of Garage. The atmosphere at the opening was very warm and inspiring:
Art · Science
One of ::vtol::'s "robots" is a sound installation that works as follows: if you connect to its access point (there are four of them), it begins to react to whatever you do on your phone, altering the sound environment around it. The artist himself describes the
Aristocracy · Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society
Speaking of aristocrats and art: on the upper floor of MAMM, an archival exhibition by Lauren Greenfield on the life of the Moscow post-Soviet elite, a photographic project of 2012-2014 in which the artist set out to capture the daily life and pretensions of Russia's wealthy.
NB! · In the Press · Art · Books · Observations
I have received my author's copy of BADLON, the new ultra-fashionable zine, for which I wrote the closing text on an art project devoted to bell-ringing. The magazine can be bought at КМ20 and on their website, at a very handsome price: 3700.
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Nature
The dog in these paintings by the British animal painter Edwin Landseer is Nelson, a Newfoundland belonging to Adolphus and Augusta, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. In the first portrait Nelson appears with a biscuit on his nose, alongside Princess Mary, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and
NB! · Art · Humour
The incredible embroideries of the Japanese artist Ipnot. It is hard to believe that all these delicacies were made with nothing but thread, in the French knot technique. Bon appétit!
NB! · Art · New York · Humour
Art · Monarchies · Ethnography
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII), and Prince Alfred in Highland dress, with a little dog at their feet and a view of a mountain landscape in the background. The portrait, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, is in the Royal Collection. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
In the enfilade of the main building of the Museum of Architecture, an exhibition has opened that continues my beloved 2020 Garage Triennial of Contemporary Art. If you remember, the selection of works for the 2nd Triennial at Garage was built on recommendations from artists who had taken part in