Art · New York · Nature

Dogs Running in the Snow, New York

A photograph by the Hungarian photographer André Kertész, 1971

Two children with a red sled play in deep snow on a snow-covered field, with houses and snowy trees in the distance.

Archive · Art · People

Luigi Ghirri, a pioneer of colour photography in Italy

Winter 1985. Luigi Ghirri, a pioneer of Italian colour photography

NB! · Art · Observations

Giambologna's “Allegory of the Apennines” is to be found in our own home:

Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums

Five Moscow exhibitions closing between 18 January and 15 February

In the regular "Where to Go" column: Moscow exhibitions you can visit this week. 📌 Closing soon: "Karl Bryullov. Rome – Moscow – Saint Petersburg" at the Tretyakov Gallery, until 18 January 📌 Closing soon: "From Dawn to Dusk: Byzantine Coins from the Collection of G.A. Shchetinin"

Archive · Art · Museums · Paris

The Louvre bought the tiara of Saitaphernes in 1896, but it was made by an Odesa jeweller

In 1896 the Louvre bought the tiara of the Scythian king Saitaphernes for 220,000 francs. Eight of the foremost specialists in antiquity and the history of art pronounced it a masterpiece and assured the museum that it would become the pride of the Louvre. The Imperial Museum in Vienna

Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris

Exhibition “1925–2025

The exhibition “1925–2025. One Hundred Years of Art Deco” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris marks the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, from which the Art Deco style took its name and won worldwide recognition. The exhibition treats Art Deco

On an Art Nouveau postcard, the white-bearded Tsar Saltan in a patterned white robe bends toward a black cat on a red carpet.

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Tsar Saltan in the “Fairy-Tale Types” postcard series by the artist E. Sokolov

Tsar Saltan on a postcard from the series "Fairy-Tale Types" by the artist Ye. Sokolov

Art · Heritage · Society

Ten defendants tried over stolen Picasso works found in Peillon near Nice

Court Reopens 2017 Case in Which More Than 20 Stolen Works of Art, Including Seven by Picasso, Were Seized from a House in a Suburb of Nice. The police officers acted undercover, passing themselves off as a Swiss buyer and his assistant. The operation was prompted by information received from

Painting in a wooden frame on a dark red wall: three women in headscarves and winter clothes walk through a snowy forest carrying round loaves.

NB! · Art

Mikhail Savitsky's painting “Khleby”, created in 1968

Loaves. Mikhail Savitsky, 1968

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Grandma Moses began painting after the age of 70 and became a renowned American artist

Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, was a self-taught American artist and one of the leading representatives of primitivism. Anna began to paint when she was already over 70. Almost all her life she worked on farms in the states of New York and Virginia. A

Art · New York · People · Saint Petersburg

Katya Kazakina of Artnet News wins the Front Page Award for the second time

Leningrad-born journalist Katya Kazakina has been awarded, for the second time, the prestigious Front Page Award for women in journalism, presented by the New York Newswomen's Club. Kazakina is a senior reporter at Artnet News, where she writes the popular weekly column The Art Detective, covering the

A white-winged angel with outstretched arms above a shepherd with a staff, people lying on the ground and a flock of sheep, with a town and an arched bridge behind.

Faith · Art

Alexander Ivanov's sketch of the 1850s with an angel above shepherds and their flock

The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds to Announce the Birth of Christ. Sketch by Alexander Ivanov, 1850s.