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This week brings a positively dizzying number of exhibition openings, but the "where to go" rubric has not been cancelled, so let us not be idle and save one more announcement

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

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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…

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

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Children at the writers' congress, among them Irkutsk pioneers invited by Gorky

Children at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, held from 17 August to 1 September 1934. 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

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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 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

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Three arrests of Anastasia Tsvetaeva, the camps, exile and her return to Moscow in 1961

At the Home of the Writer Anastasia Tsvetaeva, November 1987. Photo by Yury Rybchinsky Anastasia, the younger sister of Marina Tsvetaeva, also travelled a far from easy road. Her first husband, the chemical engineer Mauritius Mints, died of peritonitis only two years after the wedding, in the Crimea, at the

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Kandinsky's apartment building on Dolgy Lane in Moscow and the creative laboratory in its tower

On Friday I breakfasted in Kandinsky's flat, in a room whose windows look out over Zubovskaya Square. Where did Rodchenko and Stepanova live in Moscow? E. L.: At first they made do in other people's flats, in tiny rooms. They lived in a house belonging to

Evening view of a lit walkway above the water along an embankment, with an arched bridge and yellow buildings beyond.

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Pedestrian bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment in Moscow completed in time for City Day

The bridge along Bolotnaya Embankment, whose construction we have followed since the spring, is at last ready. Remember, I wrote that they would probably want to open it for City Day? They made it just in time

Wooden sculpture of a figure with long hair, a beard and a raised arm, displayed behind glass.

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Wooden sculpture from the Tretyakov Gallery collection

The Delightful Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol by Sergei Konenkov, 1917. Tretyakov Gallery collection

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Just think: the Polytechnic Museum has been closed since 2013, so one might say an entire generation of visitors has been denied the chance to set foot in this unique building

Just think: the Polytechnic Museum has been closed since 2013, so one might say an entire generation of visitors has been denied the chance to set foot in this unique building. Does anyone have any notion of when the museum will reopen in its native home, or, more precisely, whether

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The US Department of Justice has announced that if repairs and funding for the Kennedy Center are suspended, the building will have to be demolished

The collision arises from a lawsuit brought by the Democrat Joyce Beatty against the attachment of Trump's name to the building. In May 2026 a court had already ordered that name removed from the title "Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing

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The Achievements of Elon Musk Fly Over Yury Gagarin Square

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Moscow – Leningrad: Something Different

The Seventies are arranged in a rather unusual way in Soviet culture. The Thaw was over, the euphoria had evaporated, and it became clear to certain people that print runs in the millions and vast auditoriums no longer loomed on the horizon, while large exhibitions would be of whatever format