Art · Moscow · Observations · Reportage · Humour
Buy! Buy! Buy! I have come to a new contemporary art fair, yes, yet another in this year of squandered budgets. It is called Obertone, and it is devoted exclusively to graphic art. It is held in an industrial zone behind Leningradsky Station. The taxi driver was most curious as
Archive · Books · Moscow · Observations · Education
Mikhail Alexandrovich Dmitriev, an old Russian writer of the Slavophile circle, now almost forgotten, recalls the Church Slavonic classes of his university years in this way. Professor of Slavonic philology Matvey Gavrilov proposed that, wherever possible, Russian words in speech be exchanged for Slavonic ones, and the result was handsome:
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “The Rules of the Game: How Sport Shaped Culture” at the New Manege, until 4 December 📌 Closing soon: Mikhail Krunov’s exhibition “The Supracultural Absolute, or a Sensory Investigation of Time” at the a—s—t—r—a gallery, until 5 October 📌 The exhibition “From Dawn
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Moscow, 1972 Photograph by Vladimir Sychev
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
Most of the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve now looks like this. A continuous fence with pinpoint access to the architectural ensemble, while the protected park itself has been effectively sealed off and dug up. I did not go to the trouble of finding out why the work is being done, or
Archive · Moscow · Science · Society
Muscovites observe the Great Solar Eclipse of 19 June 1936: a solar eclipse on the eve of the repressions. Photographs by Yefrem Yefremov. Against the purplish-grey sky there flared a silken, silvery corona, of the form typical of the epoch of solar maximum. The absolutely black disc of the
Books · Moscow · People
I live on Bolshaya Presnya, 36, 24. A quiet little spot. Peaceful. Well? What is it to me, one would think, that somewhere in the storm-world they have gone and invented a war? Night has come. A fine one. Ingratiating. And why do some of the young ladies tremble,
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📌 19 November: opening of the exhibition “From Beijing to Moscow: A Dialogue of Cultures” at the Tretyakov Gallery, until 23 February 📌 22 November: opening of the exhibition “Tatlin. The Construction of the World” at the Zotov Centre, until 22 March 📌 21 November: opening of the exhibition “Photo[graphic] Journey” at
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations
Speaking of Sklifosovsky. Many who drive past the handsome blue building with the colonnade on the Garden Ring do not even realise that it is no country estate or palace of Praskovya Zhemchugova, but a working Orthodox church
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
I know the news is stale, and that everyone has spent the past week and a half in embarrassment and has even stopped talking about it. But since I was away travelling for a long time and did not follow events closely, I am doubly unhappy about this innovation. Though,
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Masterpieces of Early Photography. 1840–1870” at the Béton Centre for Visual Culture, until 30 November 📌 The exhibition “The Back of the Hand. Olga Sokolova, Evgeniya Goltseva” at the Museum of Decorative Art, until 30 November 📌 11 November: opening of the exhibition “From Dawn to Dusk:
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