In the Press · Art

Christie’s sale on 27 February raised $21.3 million, led by a work by Helen Frankenthaler

The total proceeds of Christie's "Post-War to Present" sale, held on 27 February, came to $21.3 million, reports artnews.com. The most expensive lot of the evening was Helen Frankenthaler's abstraction Concerto, dated 1982. The lot went under the hammer for $2.

Art · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg

Silver medal of the Saint Petersburg merchants commemorating the accession of Alexander I

This silver medal was commissioned by the merchants of Saint Petersburg to commemorate the accession of Alexander I. It was struck in Prussia, at the Royal Mint in Berlin. The engraver was Abramson. On the obverse: Minerva, holding a pike in her left hand and in her right a shield

A painting on a white gallery wall: a large fragment of a face in black and grey tones, with a wide open eye and a slightly open mouth.

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A dialogue of arts between Natalia Turnova and Alexandre Cabanel

Natalia Turnova and Alexandre Cabanel: A Dialogue of the Arts

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Timothée Chalamet and Antoine Vollon's "A Piece of Butter"

The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · People

Nataliya Turnova’s exhibition “Unceremonial Portrait” at the Multimedia Art Museum

Natalia Turnova at the Multimedia Art Museum. Let us begin by recalling the artist's biography, which I gleaned from some interview or other. A childhood in Kabul and in Myanmar. You see now where those bright, Eastern monochromes and colour combinations come from? She traced her first artistic

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A French Soup Tureen of the Sixteenth Century in the Shape of a Cauliflower

A French soup tureen of the sixteenth century in the shape of a cauliflower. With its own snail, naturally. This is France, after all

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Adam and Eve in Paradise, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1509

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Igor Shelkovsky's "Proverbs"

Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage · Paris

A Brief Review of the Key Publications of the Last Two Weeks of February

A brief review of the key publications of the last two weeks of February. We have spoken about new exhibitions, unique museum collections and the repatriation of art, and touched on pressing questions of the Russian art market and of architectural heritage. 📌 The Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow and the

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Head-Washing, Alexander Samokhvalov, 1922-23

Art · Monarchies · Science

Medal of 1763 by Timofey Ivanov marking the start of the recoinage of copper coins

And This Is Animated by Thee! The motto on a commemorative medal with a most unusual obverse design. An eagle with a sceptre and orb in its talons soars in the rays of the All-Seeing Eye above a curious device: a minting screw press, a balancier. The medal was

Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

Exhibition on the dark side of the Thaw in visual art, from Sveshnikov to Prokuratova

The Thaw, one of the great milestones of our twentieth-century culture, had its shadow side too, and that is the canvas of the exhibition "The Dark Thaw" at the Voznesensky Centre. What are these dark places? Little-known art that stayed in the shade. Names that never