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The scaffolding netting has come off Sytin's Printing House on Pyatnitskaya Street; a winter contemporary art fair will be held here from 6 to 8 December|catalog|
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Winners of the youth category at the Russian Creative Awards announced
We recently looked together at the shortlist of the Russian Creative Awards, which for the first time in a long while included a category for young figures in culture, art and the creative industries (established jointly with the Tavrida art cluster). The awards ceremony took place on Friday, and we
Art · Books · Museums · Paris
Pavel Antokolsky’s poem about Velázquez and the portrait of the Infanta
The painter was ardent, affable, pure, clever. He knew that the rosy, timid child Was long since dry and yellow, like a squeezed lemon; That in the pulse of those veins are the dreams of many buried; That it is not Brabant lace that is beyond price, But that, surely,
Coming Up · Faith · Art · London
El Greco depicts Saint Sebastian at the moment of revelation beneath a cloudy sky
Christie's in London to offer this remarkable Saint Sebastian by the great El Greco, thought to date from 1600, from a private collection. It is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the known portraits of Saint Sebastian created by El Greco. The saint is shown against an overcast, clouded
Art · Observations
A Very Intriguing Scene: a Cavalier with a Masked Lady Seated Behind Him
The seventeenth-century Dutch watercolourist Gesina ter Borch and an unknown sixteenth-century Italian artist.
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums
Marble drawing of Theseus and a centaur from Herculaneum, Naples museum
A delightful preparatory drawing on marble: Theseus and the Centaur. Found at Herculaneum, AD 20-30. On display at the Archaeological Museum of Naples
Art · Moscow · Society Pages · Ethnography
A touching, warm exhibition has opened at the Space 1618 gallery in Staromonetny Lane: Saule Madiyeva presents a series of conceptual works in felt
A touching, warm exhibition has opened at the Space 1618 gallery in Staromonetny Lane: Saule Madiyeva presents a series of conceptual works in felt. On the one hand, the artist turns to traditional techniques and uses the favourite material of the nomadic world; on the other, she attempts a personal,
Architecture · Art · Heritage · Society
Building of a Former Clinic with Banksy's 2006 Graffiti Put Up for Sale in Bristol
Graffiti on a Wall as a Factor in Investment Appeal? In Bristol, England, a building has been put up for sale bearing a Banksy graffito, left on the wall of a former clinic in 2006. The work is called “Well Hung Lover”. The property is valued at $900,000, and
Archive · Art · London · Society
Sympathy for the Sorrows of a Once Great Lady
Sympathy for the sorrows of a once great lady. Cartoon by Tom Merry. 28 November 1891 Old Mother Britannia, impoverished by liberal reforms, and her Lion beg for alms against the backdrop of a ruined Palace of Westminster
Art · People · Humour
Zinaida Serebriakova: Just Don't Copy It Out Word for Word
Yves Breyer: fine by me