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📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Masterpieces of Early Photography. 1840–1870” at the Béton Centre for Visual Culture, until 30 November 📌 The exhibition “The Back of the Hand. Olga Sokolova, Evgeniya Goltseva” at the Museum of Decorative Art, until 30 November 📌 11 November: opening of the exhibition “From Dawn to Dusk:
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"I was dislocated as a child; you, then, set yourself right!" From the quarrel between Lavretsky and Mikhalevich in Turgenev's "A Nest of the Gentry" Illustration: K. Kashcheev, 1951
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The Wounded Amazon, Franz von Stuck, 1905. A description of the image of the wounded Amazon is found in Pliny the Elder, who tells of a competition for the finest sculpture on the subject, in which the celebrated sculptors of the 5th century BC Polykleitos, Phidias, Kresilas and Phradmon took
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They would often make the slaves drink wine until they were insensible, and lead them out in that state into public places, to show the young men what a hideous spectacle a man presents who has lost his reason to wine. They also made them dance indecent dances and sing
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Keep Calm, It's a Day Off. “Sleep”, a sculpture by the contemporary American artist Kristina Botwell
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I love beneath the vaults a grey-haired quiet, the wandering of requiems and memorial services, and the moving rite to which all are bound: the funeral service at St Isaac's. I love the priest's unhurried step, The broad bearing-out of the winding-sheet, And
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Tradition is what lives today, what is not merely memory but constant movement forward. For me, tradition and the avant-garde are not opposite poles but a dialogue in which I find my own point. Irina Zatulovskaya, whose exhibition runs until 30 November at MMOMA on Gogolevsky Boulevard, speaks of
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The Messenger. From the cycle "The Field of Kulikovo" Ilya Glazunov, 1978
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It turns out that the original version of the sculpted portrait of Nefertiti had wrinkles. This was shown by a CT scan of the bust carried out in 2006, which revealed a second sculpture carved into the limestone core beneath the plaster. The inner face proved to be more realistic:
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