Faith · Art
The Resurrection: The Angels Rolling the Stone Away from the Sepulchre
William Blake, circa 1805
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NB! · Art · Observations · Nature
Pink roses in a glass vase in a painting by Jean François van Dael
In my opinion, Jan Frans van Dael has captured the loveliest variety of rose in the world. I do not know what it is called, but these flowers are magnificent
Coming Up · Art · Paris
A little-known Picasso to go under the hammer in Paris
The work in question is a painting entitled "Bust of a Woman in a Flowered Hat", which depicts Dora Maar, the artist's muse and lover. Until now this portrait was known to specialists and admirers of the Spanish painter's work only from black-and-
Art · Museums · Observations · People
The bronze mask of Igor Shelkovsky, made by the sculptor Boris Orlov, seems to me a direct allusion to the Mycenaean golden mask of Agamemnon
Shelkovsky's mask is on show in the Artists' Village on Maslovka. The mask of Agamemnon is in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Museum of the Artists' Town on Verkhnyaya Maslovka opens in Moscow
I did not know that Moscow had a little neighbourhood where, from the 1930s onwards, outstanding Soviet artists lived and worked side by side. Igor Grabar, Boris Ioganson, Geliy Korzhev, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Tyshler, Semyon Chuikov: the names of these luminaries are familiar to everyone, but one need only imagine
Art · Mores
Gloves for Those Whose Diamonds Are Itching
Late medieval custom held that rings were not to be worn over gloves; instead, one was advised to wear special perforated gloves, through which the jewellery could be seen. Gloves of just this perforated kind appear, in particular, in the paintings of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
Art · Observations · Society · Reportage · Ethnography
We have already said a great deal about Blazar, but I cannot help returning once more to the design section that so appealed to me, and dwelling on one of its brightest stands: the stand of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, designed by the architect Misha Maslo
We have already said a great deal about Blazar, but I cannot help returning once more to the design section that so appealed to me, and dwelling on one of its brightest stands: the stand of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, designed by the architect Misha Maslov, which the fair named
NB! · Art · People
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson, 1916
Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums
State Historical Museum opens exhibition for the 200th anniversary of Nicholas I's accession to the throne
The State Historical Museum has opened the exhibition "Nicholas I. The Ideal Autocrat," marking the 200th anniversary of the accession to the throne of one of the most contradictory monarchs of the Russian Empire. The exhibition presents more than 260 items, including Nicholas I's personal belongings,
Art · Pop Culture
"Vertumnus" by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, late sixteenth century
"Avion skandia" by Bengt Lindström, 1985
Art · Observations · New York · Pop Culture · Humour
Christie’s closes its digital art and NFT department amid declining interest
Christie's is closing its digital art and NFT department. One rather suspects they were the only ones left who remembered what it was. The decision, well, who would have thought? is connected both with the global slump in interest in NFTs and with broader shifts in the art
Art · Observations · Humour
Work by American artist Norwood MacGilvary showing figures among the stars
The Birth of an Idea, 1920. The American artist Norwood MacGilvary. Could not put it better.