Moscow · Museums · Observations · Science · Society
The Museum of Moscow has a rather successful exhibition, "Take Away the Stuffed Fox", devoted to the local-lore movement and the canon. The organisers declare that the project is meant to dispel "the nostalgic aura around the museum of local lore". Suit yourselves. Many historians
Books · Moscow · Observations · Society
A favourite initiative of Moscow's libraries: adopt a withdrawn book. The city portal lists the libraries and the books they are prepared to give away. The books are conveniently sorted by category, author and subject; you can choose a library on the map or simply search for the
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
The Garage Museum's Exhibition Plans for 2022 Do, Indeed, Make the Coming Year a Female One. In March a retrospective of Lydia Masterkova (1927–2008) will open, also showing works by Yefrosinya Yermilova-Platova and Eva Levina-Rozengolts. In the photograph by Igor Palmin: Masterkova during preparations for
Coming Up · Art · Moscow
Lest you get lost among portraits of theatrical figures, composers, playwrights and drawings by masters of the twentieth century no less famous, and sometimes more so, add to your collection of masterpieces, for the reproductions of the Arbat Courtyard are already forlorn on the refrigerator door. A Couple in White
Cinema · Moscow · Observations · Paris
In Nikita Mikhalkov's film "Five Evenings" there is a shot of one of Moscow's public gardens with exactly the same chairs that are the calling card of the Tuileries Garden in Paris; anyone who has been there even once has a photo in such
Moscow · Observations · Mores
Dropped into the Turkish bistro Mini Turkish Spot on Tverskaya and was pleasantly surprised to find, by the entrance, some splendid antique chairs by the Thonet Brothers. I even know where they were bought, an excellent choice. There was a time when Thonet bentwood furniture stood in almost every home,
Moscow · Observations · Society · People
Today is the birthday of Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896-1974) When Zhukov died, his family appealed to the country's supreme leadership to have his body committed to the earth, as the Marshal of Victory himself had wished, but in vain: he was cremated, and his ashes were
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Monarchies · Moscow
Art · London · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
And at Nika Neyolova's Show at the Voznesensky Centre the Parquet Has Gone Up in Arms. The first solo exhibition of the London-based artist of Russian origin Nika Neyolova, [Ъ] [Ы] [Ь], has opened in Moscow, curated by graduates of that very Garage and Higher School of
NB! · Art · Moscow · Society Pages
Yesterday a very beautiful exhibition by the artist Katya Shcheglova, also known in the role of an actress with a rather sizeable filmography, opened at the Institute of Art History on Kozitsky Lane. As a production designer, Katya was nominated for the Golden Mask, and she has now prepared a
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations
It will be interesting to see it realised, but they say that building the "Cogwheel", the new Garage Museum pavilion in Gorky Park, will take 5 years. What interests me most is whether the cladding will be sheet metal, glass or some material of the Alucobond kind. For
Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
One of Moscow's most beautiful churches is the Church of the Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome, in Zamoskvorechye, built in 1762. It is a great pity that the interior has undergone a reconstruction-style restoration, but this does not diminish the grandeur of the decoration. In Soviet times