Faith · Art · Museums

Saint Margaret and the demon in dragon form in a painting with the Virgin Mary and Louis IX

An Incredibly Terrifying Dragon in a New Painting by an Unknown Artist in the National Gallery Collection. The Virgin and Child sit enthroned, the throne adorned with a tapestry of double-headed eagles. Beside them stand Saint Louis IX of France and Saint Margaret, astride a monster. According to tradition,

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While the global market slipped by 4.1%, sales of Russian art at foreign auctions rose by 18%, reaching $27.8 million

ARTinvestment.RU has compared the performance of the Russian art market at foreign auctions in the first quarter of 2025 and of 2024. The report includes the results of auction transactions in works by all artists who were born, worked or are significant in the context of the art history

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Artsy publishes Art Market Trends 2025 report on pricing and transparency in the art market

Artsy, a major online platform for buying, selling and learning about art, has released the report Art Market Trends 2025, based on more than 1,600 responses from collectors and gallerists in 60 countries. The main findings: 🖋 52% of collectors doubt that art prices are justified. Prices for art are

Faith · Art · Books · Humour

Book against the papacy by Huguenot pastor Steverslot, published in Holland in 1720

A Robo-Pope in an Engraving from an Anti-Catholic Publication of the Eighteenth Century. A book of 1720 with the witty title "Pope's Porridge Served on the Dishes of the Huguenots, Considering the Papal Rise, Idolatry and Abuses in the Veneration of Images, as well as

NB! · Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Paris

At the Museum of Moscow's new exhibition "Between Paris and Moscow", I particularly recommend the sculptures of Sergei Koltsov, author of the sketches for the sculptural figures on the building of the Lenin Library

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Relocation of Michelangelo’s David to the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence in 1873 and its replacement by a copy

The removal of Michelangelo's David from Piazza della Signoria to the Galleria dell'Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1873. A copy was set up in the square in place of the original; otherwise, in all likelihood, the legendary sculpture would by now have suffered badly

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Royal Greeting, Henri Cartier-Bresson

NB! · Art · Monarchies · Mores · Humour

The caption to this caricature of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette reads: "She thought she had married a man, but it was only a log"

Architecture · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Paris

Four books on the Russian avant-garde, from the 1981 exhibition catalogue to Chernikhov

Yury Avvakumov, Russian architect, populariser of the concept of paper architecture, artist who has represented Russia three times at the Venice Biennale, and researcher who has worked for many years with the legacy of the Russian avant-garde and the them. The catalogue of the exhibition "Moscow-Paris. 1900-

The East · Art · Paris · People

Silk paintings of the 1950s by the Vietnamese-French artist Mai Trung Thu

Delightful works by the Vietnamese-French artist Mai Trung Thu (1906-1980). All the works shown here were created in the 1950s and are devoted to scenes from the lives of women: their toilette and their care of children, with the everyday world of childhood. Mai Trung Thu was a

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Science

Contemporary philosophers and art theorists are actively discussing the creative output of neural networks and artificial intelligence, from rethinking authorship and the creative process, calling AI a co-author, to debates about the authentic…

Most philosophers agree that AI is merely a tool and one of the extensions of the human mind, and art historians, curators and artists are not standing aside from these reflections either. One answer is the exhibition "Humans and Neural Networks: Who Creates Whom?", which opened this week

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Psychedelia, Spanish Style

Catalan artist Joan Pons (1927-1984), Untitled work, lithograph, 1967