The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · People
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
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage · Paris
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
NB! · Books · Moscow · Society Pages
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
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
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg
The Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS) has published the minutes of a meeting of its Academic Council devoted to the preservation of Soviet modernist buildings of the 1960s to 1980s. The decision to publish the minutes was taken on 12 February, in response to the lively debate
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society Pages · Humour
Those who remember the exhibition "Zlotnikov. The Signal System" at the New Tretyakov Gallery will find that it differs from this one. At Ground Solyanka there is more painting, and there are sculptures that I, for one, am seeing for the first time, while documents and photographs are
Archive · Cinema · Moscow · Observations · Society · Paris
Little Street Musicians of Montmartre, 1937. Remember how, in the films of the 1990s, children earning a living on city streets by washing car windscreens at junctions and selling chewing gum and flowers were a common sight? Then they vanished from view for a while, as the economic situation changed.
Coming Up · Moscow · Pop Culture
In March the Mariinsky Theatre will give its most ambitious tour in recent years on the Historic Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. As part of a festival of the operas of Richard Wagner, Valery Gergiev and the company will twice present updated productions of the tetralogy The Ring of the
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Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, together with The Art Newspaper Russia, has presented the project "This Is the Best We Have". The Art Newspaper Russia's Choice. The exhibition is a retrospective of Russian contemporary art over more than half a century. The display includes selected
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Science · Paris
Yes, my favourite museum in Moscow is still the Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Neskuchny Garden. Let us compare it with the Galerie de Minéralogie et de Géologie in the Jardin des plantes in Paris, which occupies a building of somewhat grander proportions, yet looks almost like the Fersman Museum. The
Moscow · Science · Education · Palaeontology
Student, step out faster, for oysters wait for us in the field, and the Jurassic ammonite waits for us in the field, the Vraconian belemnite, the Lutetian nummulite. The opening of a palaeontological song composed by students of the Moscow Institute of Geological Prospecting named after Ordzhonikidze in the 1950s.