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A new selection of Moscow exhibitions

📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "From Beijing to Moscow: A Dialogue of Cultures" at the Tretyakov Gallery, until 23 February 📌 The exhibition "Will It Last Forever?" at the Shift gallery, until 28 March 📌 Andrey Kuzkin's exhibition "Not Here" at the pop/off/art

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Raphael’s last painting, “Transfiguration”, as described by Vasari

Let us begin the week before Great Lent with Raphael's Transfiguration of Christ. This is the last picture the artist worked on before his death in 1520. It is kept in the Vatican Pinacoteca. A reminder that the beauty of Christ's sacrifice will save the world.

NB! · Art · Observations · Mores · Ethnography

I have collected and illustrated Russian proverbs about love for you

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Environmental Art According to a Dictionary Entry of 1997

Coming Up · Art · London

The star lot of Christie’s forthcoming March sale will be Gerhard Richter’s landscape “Schober (Haybarn)”, painted in 1984

The canvas carries a pre-sale estimate of £6–8 million

Hyperrealist painting of a table with a white cloth, two empty plates, a glass of red wine and a large brown stain.

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Welsh hyperrealist painter David Pugh Evans, who lived from 1942 to 2020

The Stain. The Welsh hyperrealist painter David Pugh Evans (1942-2020)

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The fresco "Procession of the Righteous into Paradise" by Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chorny, created in 1408 for the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir

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Exhibition of Old Believer icons opens 27 February in Clinton, Massachusetts

Exhibition of Old Believer icons to open in the United States. On 27 February, the Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, Massachusetts, will open the exhibition “Icons: The Old Believers and Their World”. The exhibition is devoted to the tradition of the Old Believer icon-painting centres of Palekh,

Black print on beige paper showing two toothy sea monsters and a whale, with a handwritten inscription and a red stamp below.

Art · People · Ethnography

Stone cut print after a drawing by Inuit artist Kiakshuk, made by his son Lukta Qiatsuk

Sea Monsters Devouring a Whale, 1961. A print after a drawing by Kiakshuk, an Inuit artist who was 75 at the time, had first turned to art at the age of 60, and had lived by hunting alone until then. The stone-cut print was made by his son Lukta

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Renoir Was Young Once Too, and We Have Frédéric Bazille to Thank for the Reminder

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Uncle Sam has long had his eye on this morsel, and it seems he will have to eat it!

“Trouble in Cuba”: satirical illustration by Bernhard Gillam for the cover of the American magazine Judge, August 1895

Art · Madrid · Museums

In all likelihood, a depiction of a theatrical staging of Euripides' play "Heracles", which tells the myth of Heracles gone mad

On the stage of a theatre we see Heracles, driven to despair by the spirits of madness. The hero is ready to destroy his own family: he is about to throw his son, whom he holds in his arms, into a fire in which all his possessions are already burning.