Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
At the AZ/ART Contemporary Art Centre at Maroseyka, 11/4c1, a joint exhibition of the AZ Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery is under way. Until 29 November it shows 43 sculptures of the late 1950s and the 1960s from the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the AZ Museum and
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Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Faith · Art · Observations
Matthew 6:21 A good Van Dyckian night to you! We are all on our own flight into Egypt, and like the Holy Family, we sometimes need a rest.
Coming Up · Archive · The East · Art · Moscow · Museums
The State Museum of the East, at 12A Nikitsky Boulevard, presents an exhibition devoted to the artistic legacy of the Volkov-Rybnikov dynasty. The display runs until 8 November and comprises some one hundred and fifty works of painting, graphic art and sculpture by three generations of the family. The
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…yesterday I met an acquaintance, a peasant woman, to whom I could not help remarking that she had changed… And she said to me: you too, my dear provider, have grown old, and plain besides. Though I might say, together with my late nanny: handsome I never was, but young
Art · London · Society
On 10 September a sculpture by the American artist Chabalala Self, "Lady in Blue", appeared on the plinth in the north-west corner of Trafalgar Square in London. Contemporary art has been shown on the pedestal, built in the 19th century for an equestrian statue that was never
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This case has been dragging on since May, and I deliberately refrained from writing about it. In the first place, it seemed to me that for many years now everyone with even the slightest connection to art collecting and the life of Russian auctions has known that our market is
Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
The Musée national Picasso in Paris will issue an exclusive edition of eight bronze sculptures by the artist to raise money for an extension of the building. The museum holds the largest collection of works by Pablo Picasso in the world. And now, as the "Picasso 2030" project
Coming Up · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
Among the many museum and gallery events of the past week, I want to single out one: the exhibition "Childhood. Adolescence. Sanctity" at the Andrei Rublev Museum, which runs from 3 September to 15 November 2026. More than a hundred works from the late fifteenth to the early
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Zotov Centre on Khodynskaya Street presents the exhibition "Bread" from 3 September 2026 to 17 January 2027. The project is timed to the 95th anniversary of Bakery No. 5, in whose former building the centre is housed. The curators describe the layout of the exhibition as a
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The company assembled on 6 September 2026. The plans for the eighty-eighth season were set out by the artistic director Konstantin Raikin and the theatre's managing director Elizaveta Gavrilova. The theatre continues to operate without a stage of its own. The first premiere of the season was
Art · Humour
Ha, very witty. The Mexican artist Alfredo Castañeda (1938-2010), 1984