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Bulgakov's play "The Cabal of Hypocrites", written in 1929 and devoted to the hardships of Molière's life under the yoke of Louis XIV, was permitted to be staged only after the vigorous intervention of Gorky, after a conversation between the author and St

Rehearsals at the Moscow Art Theatre dragged on, however, and the play reached the stage only in February 1936, to colossal success! But first in "Sovetskoye iskusstvo" and then, barely a week later, in "Pravda", there appeared devastating reviews. I give the text of the "

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Back to Exhibition Reviews

Back to exhibition reviews. At the New Tretyakov Gallery, the exhibition "The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia" runs until the end of September. The display tells of the place of Eastern motifs in the work of Russian modernist artists. The interest of Russian culture

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Tree topping in 1960s Paris in a photo of Audrey Hepburn and in Moscow

Bonsoir. Thanks to this photograph of Audrey Hepburn we know that in the Paris of the 1960s, too, there was the ruinous practice of crown-topping trees, which is now applied everywhere in Moscow and within a couple of years destroys healthy, sturdy trees. But note that there, at least,

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Zotov Centre opens exhibition on the October and ROPF photography groups

Moscow collections hold a great many works by Constructivist photographers, but the systematic study and display of this legacy began only comparatively recently. Well, better late than never. An exhibition devoted to the work of members of two photographic associations, October and ROPF, has opened at the Zotov Centre. Both

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How high relief differs from bas-relief, as shown by a Moscow metro composition

I do not understand why everyone is writing about the return of the bas-relief with Stalin at Taganskaya station, when it is a HIGH RELIEF, not a bas-relief: two fundamentally different kinds of sculptural image. Let me explain the difference. A high relief (haut-relief, or alto-rilievo)

A book page with an excerpt from a letter mentioning Zyuganov, Zhirinovsky, Yeltsin and Gaidar.

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Poet Inna Lisnyanskaya on the events of October 1993 in a letter to her daughter

Stinking Democrats, Cunning Communists, Screeching Liberals, Idiots, Suicides and Thieves. The exceptions are Yeltsin and, perhaps, Gaidar. The poet Inna Lisnyanskaya on the events of October 1993, in a letter to her daughter

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Oliver Stone may film a historical movie in Moscow, Alexey Fursin says

American director Oliver Stone may in due course shoot a historical film in Moscow. This was reported to TASS journalists by Alexey Fursin, head of the Moscow Department of Culture. According to him, in conversation with Stone they discussed the opportunities Moscow offers for the filming of a picture the

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Digest of posts on history, art and current topics, with a new podcast episode

Since action is sure and inaction false, pray accept the monthly digest of the main pieces published on the channel. 📌 Historical notes 📌 The sword for the harlots: how Joan of Arc restored order in a military camp. 📌 On the finer points of diplomatic etiquette under Ivan the Terrible. 📌 "Sunday:

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Ivan Andreyev's 1939 bust of Zhambyl Zhabayev at an exhibition in the New Tretyakov Gallery

Beloved Jambul. Bust of the Kazakh akyn Zhambyl Zhabayev, red sandstone, by the sculptor Ivan Andreyev, 1939. From the exhibition "The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia" at the New Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. Andreyev was a pupil of Iosif Chaikov and Alexander Matveyev,

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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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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-

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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