Coming Up · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums
Among the many museum and gallery events of the past week, I want to single out one: the exhibition "Childhood. Adolescence. Sanctity" at the Andrei Rublev Museum, which runs from 3 September to 15 November 2026. More than a hundred works from the late fifteenth to the early
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations
For all the adepts of TikTok education, I took these photographs yesterday while passing by. The lower storey has always been there! Yes, it was dug out, yes, it was adapted to a new use, reinforced and refurbished, but for now we do not tack lower storeys on to historic
Coming Up · Moscow · Science · Society
When the theatre sets about making sense of the algorithmic age, the talk inevitably turns to the balance between tradition and experiment. The project “Neurotheatre: A Rehearsal for the Future”, whose launch was announced on 7 September at the opening of the Theatre of Nations season, is conceived not as
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Zotov Centre on Khodynskaya Street presents the exhibition "Bread" from 3 September 2026 to 17 January 2027. The project is timed to the 95th anniversary of Bakery No. 5, in whose former building the centre is housed. The curators describe the layout of the exhibition as a
Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow
The company assembled on 6 September 2026. The plans for the eighty-eighth season were set out by the artistic director Konstantin Raikin and the theatre's managing director Elizaveta Gavrilova. The theatre continues to operate without a stage of its own. The first premiere of the season was
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
The Marble Palace is cramped. One understands this on seeing the collection, so familiar from its walls, in the halls of the Zilart museum. Stepping into the space of the new exhibition of the gift of Peter and Irene Ludwig, shown here in its entirety for the first time, I
Art · Moscow · Observations · Ethnography
One of the more unusual and memorable art objects at Cosmoscow turned out, to my surprise, to be connected with Russian folk style: a panel of wooden Khokhloma spoons entitled “Rhythm of Generations”. The result is a rather arresting appeal to folk crafts, and entirely without cranberry-sauce kitsch, even
Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
One might say that the Moscow art season truly began yesterday: the Cosmoscow fair opened, and there will be much talk of it in the days ahead. I was fortunate enough to survey the year's achievements in contemporary art and the leading galleries during the Beluga morning mediation,
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
On 18 September the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art opens the project “Vrubel. The Birth of a New Art”, organised jointly with the Russian Museum. The curator is the art historian Sergey Khachaturov. At the exhibition Vrubel appears as a prophet of the avant-garde, set in the context
Art · Books · Moscow · Pop Culture · Society Pages
At Lamoda's "Pygmalion's Fitting Room", one of the strangest stands at Cosmoscow, created by Valeria Titova and Daria Tishkova, they recall the story told by Ovid of the Cypriot sculptor who carved a figure from ivory and fell in love with it. People usually
Archive · Books · Moscow · Education
A delegation of Pioneers addressed the Congress with a greeting. Among the various groups of participants were children brought to the Congress by Samuil Marshak, who delivered a report arguing that writing for children is harder than writing for adults. The children were a living example of the reading audience
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
The history of the colour black is the history of humanity's transformations: its fears, the mechanisms of power it has built, its spiritual quests and the aesthetic revolutions that continue to this day. The project "The History of Black" at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, curated by