Art · New York · Society · People · Nature
In 1982, a wheat field sprang up in Manhattan, literally at the foot of the Twin Towers. The territory of a former rubbish dump, which was standing vacant at the time, had been allocated for the creation of an art installation. But instead of a sculpture park, the artist Agnes
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Illustrations by the British artist Angela Barrett for "Anna Karenina". Better than any screen adaptation
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · People
From 22 May to 13 July 2025, the Andrey Cheglakov Foundation on Prechistenka will host Boris Kocheishvili's solo exhibition "Cloud, Lake, Tower", timed to the artist's 85th birthday. The project will present to the wider public the many-sided work of one of the
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Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus, 1550s, and Michelangelo's David, 1504. They gaze at one another outside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
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Quotations from great men
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In early June 2013, on the 3rd if memory serves, this anonymous art object appeared outside the Samara Public Library. A section of masonry at the base of a column, with books in place of bricks. The object appeared early on Monday morning, and photographs of it quickly spread across
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Interviews · Art · Heritage
Today we talk to the art historian Sergey Popov, founder of the pop/off/art gallery, about how the gallery works with artists' legacies. On heirs Working with the heirs of contemporary artists continues, to some extent, the tasks set by the artist himself: sales to the very best
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Faith · Art
Beneath the shattered gates of hell, through which Christ leads out Adam and the righteous dead before the Resurrection, we see evil, hideous and cowering, cast down by the power of Christ. The gates of hell in the Christian sense are first mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew: "And
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Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, a painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi. This is the most enigmatic of Kuindzhi's works, which he showed, together with a few others, after 20 years of silence. And those who saw it were his 4 pupils. The second time, Kuindzhi showed the picture
Faith · Art · Museums · Paris · Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, Imperial Glass Factory, 1810s. Crystal, opal glass, diamond-cut faceting, painting, gilding. «On the day of Holy Easter, 29 March, a thanksgiving service to the Lord God was offered in Paris, on the Place Louis XV, by the Russian clergy, in the presence of the Emperor Alexander, the