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The legendary openwork cast-iron fence of the Demidov town estate in Bolshoy Tolmachyovsky Lane regains its former appearance thanks to the efforts of the "Remember Everything" Labour Commune and the volunteer organisation "Ecological and Cultural Association Sloboda". A magnificent pattern emerges from beneath the accumulated
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Anna Garnova is altogether too beautiful for a mayor's wife. But for a governor's lady or a chamberlain's consort she would do very nicely. The scene after Khlestakov's proposal, with Andrey Mezhulis and Evdokia Kareva, from Yevgeny Marchelli's The Government
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This case has been dragging on since May, and I deliberately refrained from writing about it. In the first place, it seemed to me that for many years now everyone with even the slightest connection to art collecting and the life of Russian auctions has known that our market is
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
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Not long ago I wrote on Threads about the Polytechnic Museum, asking when it will open, whereupon a man turned up and began to assert that the museum has had another storey added – mark this – from below! For all the adepts of TikTok education, I took these photographs yesterday while
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,