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Beside Matisse's "Pink Studio" at the Pushkin Museum's new exhibition "The Unknown Shchukin" hangs a watercolour sketch of the painting "The Red Studio", which he enclosed in a letter to Shchukin, counting on the collector's support. Shchukin could
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Now it is official: the winter |catalog| contemporary art fair will take place in Moscow from 6 to 8 December. Catalog is the only contemporary art fair in Russia organised directly by gallerists, and so the terms of participation differ from those of the usual commercial fairs. For instance, all
Architecture · Monarchies · Moscow · Heritage
The Red Gate was the first triumphal arch in Russia. The original, Petrine arch on Myasnitskaya Street was built of wood after 1709, and it burned down and was rebuilt more than once. In Catherine's reign the arch was pulled down and built anew. But under Anna Ioannovna
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On 27 November the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art on Maroseyka will open the exhibition "And in the Steppe the Wind Is Raging…", marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of the artist Vladimir Yakovlev (1934–1998) The exhibition will include 70 works from the collections of
Aristocracy · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
In the Neskuchny Garden, Count Orlov's grotto, recognised as a cultural heritage site of federal significance, has been restored for the first time. Its viewing platform opens onto the Moskva River, Catherine's Pond and Count Orlov's Summer House. The structure appeared here at the
Archaeology · Moscow · Nature · Ethnography
In the Seventeenth Century Muscovites Loved Cats So Much That They Depicted Them Wearing Crowns. During work at two archaeological sites in Moscow, on Tverskaya Street and on the grounds of the Chizhevsky Compound on Nikolskaya Street, clay tiles were discovered bearing the image of a cat in a crown.
Interviews · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
Another interesting fragment from Marina Loshak's recent interview. — Is the Russian art market content with Vasnetsov and Serov? — It is very bad when a culture, however rich and varied it may be, stews in its own juice. It is one single "broth", and every ingredient in
Interviews · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Marina Loshak said many interesting things in a recent interview. But as someone who has been inseparably bound up with museums for almost ten years, and who has been collecting art for about as long, and a rather original, non-standard collection at that, I found the following passage especially
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The Jewish Museum, housed in the Constructivist building of the Bakhmetevsky Garage, has opened the first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years, "Lyuba, Lyubochka. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova. 1889–1924". The exhibition presents more than 280 works, many of them shown for the first time. It offers
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The final week of the remarkable exhibition "Faith in Yermolayeva" is under way at Galeev Gallery. It is not merely a weighty event from the curatorial point of view, but also an important account of Vera Yermolayeva (1893-1937), whose name, though little known, has become one of
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The Pushkin Museum has put on display an art cabinet (a so-called kunstkast) presented to Stalin in 1949. This year, specialists of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts attributed this piece of furniture: the paintings are by the Antwerp painter Jan van Balen and date from the