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Channel 4 ADHD documentary prompts open letter of protest from British ADHD organisation

The British television channel Channel 4 has released a documentary, The Great ADHD Myth? In it, the NHS psychiatrist Max Pemberton tries to establish whether ADHD is a genuine developmental disorder or a social construct, and whether children should be given psychiatric medication at all. Perhaps the best illustration of

Art · Museums · Heritage · New York

Picasso painting missing since 1961 found, Guggenheim Museum files lawsuit

In February 1961, the loss of Picasso's Femme dans un fauteuil of 1918 was discovered at the student union building of the University of Pittsburgh. Painted by Picasso on his honeymoon with Olga Khokhlova near Biarritz, the picture had been lent to the university by the Guggenheim Museum

NB! · Archive · Art · Museums · Paris

The Mona Lisa Returns to the Louvre from Wartime Evacuation

NB! · Art · Moscow · Observations · Humour

Something Strange at the Institute of Art History

Something strange at the Institute of Art History. No one will own up to whose brushes these are

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Observations

Gosha Ostretsov’s exhibition “Utopia” opens at the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky

At the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky Lane, Gosha Ostretsov's exhibition "Utopia" has opened, a sort of itinerary through the artist's universe, with works from the 1990s to the 2020s. In the absence of a curatorial text, all that remains is to watch

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KuKryNiksy: the artists Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov and Nikolay Sokolov

Photograph by Dmitry Baltermants, 1960s

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The table at which Verochka Mamontova sat for Valentin Serov's painting "Girl with Peaches" has survived and stands in the main manor house of the Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve

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“Flowers. Symbol of Beauty” at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment until 18 October

At the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, a touching exhibition, "Flowers. A Symbol of Beauty", is running without much fuss, devoted entirely to the presence of flowers in Russian art. It opens with Kramskoy's "Bouquet of Flowers. Phloxes" of 1884, the only pure flower

A dark wooden chair with a woven cane seat and curved front legs against a dark draped backdrop.

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Brazilian artist Luis Filipe conceived a chair art object in 2004

Chair with Crossed Legs. An art object by the Brazilian artist and designer Luis Filipe, conceived in 2004

A rusty metal pile with a Corinthian capital above dark water, with pale apartment buildings on the far shore under a blue sky.

NB! · Architecture · Art · Saint Petersburg

Boremir Bakharev created a mooring pile with a Corinthian capital for the “Waterfront/Водная линия” competition

Art object "Mooring Post with a Metal Capital of the Corinthian Order", made from an old metal pipe with the addition of a Corinthian capital by the artist Boremir Bakharev in 2021 for the "Waterfront/Vodnaya liniya" competition. Saint Petersburg, waters of the River Smolenka

Landscape with a wide river and a bridge, buildings along the banks and the Kremlin visible on the horizon under a cloudy sky.

Art · Paris · Humour

Erik Bulatov painted “Paris. Kremlin” in 1992

The Best View in Paris Is, of Course, of the Kremlin. Erik Bulatov, “Paris. Kremlin”, 1992

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In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region

In October 1944 the head of the Ancient East department of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts submitted an official memorandum to the museum's director about a business trip to the town of Sukhoy Log in the Sverdlovsk region. Vsevolod Pavlov, a specialist in Ancient Egypt who had