Coming Up · Art · Moscow
For the second year running, the blazar young art fair, companion to the international contemporary art fair Cosmocow, features a design section showing the work of the boldest and most talented young artists and designers. Among the section's new stands is the display by Lamoda home, which presents
Art · London · Society · Humour
The fairest court in the world: a judge bludgeons a peaceful protester with a gavel. A new Banksy mural with precisely this subject has appeared on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. A few hours later the image was hidden beneath a sheet of corrugated metal. Constables were posted
NB! · Art · Observations · Society Pages
At Alina Pinsky's gallery a solo exhibition of Evgeny Muzalevsky opened today, offering a fresh view of an artist who so often takes part in shows at Alina Pinsky gallery. I may write a report on the exhibition later, but today I want to share one interesting parallel
Coming Up · Art · Saint Petersburg
A week ago I wrote about the then forthcoming exhibition of collector Zoya Galeeva's collection at the Anna Nova gallery in Saint Petersburg. Today I offer a friendly reminder that the exhibition is open and ready to receive guests and residents of the cultural capital. Zoya Galeeva has
Art · Mores · People
Pieter Dirksz, also known as "Longbeard", was a shipwright who earned extra money touring the fairs as one of the attractions. The takings from "viewings" of his beard he donated to the Edam orphanage, which commemorated him as its benefactor in a portrait at the end
Archaeology · Art · Books · Observations · Heritage
As Virginia Woolf wrote in "The Waves", “Life is the mainspring of a watch. How swiftly life runs from January to December! We are borne along by a stream of things, so familiar now that they cast no shadows. We float, we float…”. I hope that one more
Art · Observations
A lone wanderer in a deserted field in winter. The oppressive, dark palette is heightened by the black blot of a pack of wolves closing in on the despairing woman. But wait: is it really despair that we read on her face? It is rather an expression of enlightened acceptance,
Art · Heritage · Society
Copenhagen Authorities to Remove Mermaid Sculpture Deemed Provocative. The decision has been taken by the Danish Ministry of Culture. But this is not about the famous beauty, Edvard Eriksen's Little Mermaid, but about a contemporary sculpture installed in 2018 in the very centre of the city, on the
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Art · Museums
Boris Orlov, 1987. The exhibition “The Road to the Avant-Garde: Artists in Dialogue in the Journal ‘A-Ya’” at the Zotov Centre
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“The Voice of Space”: René Magritte unrecognisable. 1928
Art · Humour
The Croatian artist Jozo Kljaković, 1924