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Moscow Biennale of Young Art opens competition for curators under 35

The Moscow Biennale of Young Art announces an open international competition for curators under the age of 35 to take part in the main project. Applications are accepted from 18 November to 18 January on the website youngart.ru.

A framed fragment of a burgundy curtain with a “100” emblem containing a portrait and a gold plaque naming the Vakhtangov Theatre curtain.

NB! · Moscow · Heritage · Society

Vakhtangov Theatre Marks Centenary by Giving Fragments of Its Historic Curtain

The Vakhtangov Theatre celebrated its centenary on 14 November. In memory of the jubilee, the venerable Vakhtangovites each received a piece of the theatre's historic curtain

Archaeology · Architecture · London · Moscow

A 12th-century street in the Moscow Kremlin paved with the bones of domestic animals

This is what a seventeenth-century road paved with cattle bones looks like in Oxford. Bones as a road surface were used not only in England but more or less everywhere in Europe. In the Moscow Kremlin an entire street has been found, admittedly a far older one, dating from

Geography · Moscow · Mores · People

Maly Theatre actress Vera Shukhmina died in a railway accident on her way to Paris

Is It Wise to Swap Seats on Trains and Aeroplanes? Neither especially celebrated nor especially popular, but nonetheless leaving her mark on the history of the theatre, Vera Alekseyevna Shukhmina, an actress of the Maly Theatre, received an unexpected dismissal in 1925. A woman not yet old, proud and good-

Archive · Books · Moscow · Mores · People · Humour

At a meeting of the members of the writers' housing cooperative, engaged in building a five-storey residential House of Soviet Writers and adding storeys to two neighbouring houses in Nashchokin Lane and a house in Kamergersky Lane (Proyezd MKhAT), Mikhai

At a meeting of the members of the writers' housing cooperative, engaged in building a five-storey residential House of Soviet Writers and adding storeys to two neighbouring houses in Nashchokin Lane and a house in Kamergersky Lane (Proyezd MKhAT), Mikhail Bulgakov expressed surprise that a certain Comrade B-

NB! · Moscow · Museums

At the State Historical Museum

Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour

Near the Monument to Bulat Okudzhava on the Old Arbat, Poor Mu-Mu Was Slaughtered About Half a Year Ago; Someone Suddenly Bought Up the Premises and Set Up the Election Headquarters of the Party of Growth There

Near the monument to Bulat Okudzhava on the Old Arbat, about half a year ago, poor Mu-Mu was slaughtered; someone suddenly bought up the premises and set up there the election headquarters of the Party of Growth. So what is one to do with such considerable floor space when

A gilded ribbed onion-shaped dome model on a white plinth in a museum hall.

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Museums · Observations

Restored models of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral dome at the Museum of Architecture

Models of the dome of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour at the Restorer: A Profession exhibition in the Museum of Architecture. The models date from the 1840s and 1850s and were restored in our own time. They look very impressive; I had never looked at the Cathedral of Christ

Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Nature

Hurricane of 1998 destroyed several Kremlin wall merlons, out of 1044 in total

Three Merlons of the Moscow Kremlin Wall Collapsed in Today's Storm. This is not the first time the merlons of the Kremlin wall have come down. During the storm in the summer of 1998, several of them were likewise destroyed by falling trees. In all, the wall is

Coming Up · Moscow · Museums · New York · Society

Round table at the Museum of Russian Impressionism on 1920s New York and 2020s Moscow

Today at the Museum of Russian Impressionism we talk with respected people about the cultural parallels between New York in the 1920s and Moscow in the 2020s. The angle is original and, I am sure, we may count on an unconventional view and, in the end, finally work out what

Architecture · Moscow · Museums

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts rehangs its main building with more natural light

The Pushkin Museum Has Been Given Light. “What followed was very hard, I would say bloody, work, which only appears to be white,” Marina Loshak. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is undergoing a re-display. You will not recognise the museum when you come to the main building.

NB! · Art · Moscow · Observations · Humour

Almost Carel Fabritius

Almost Carel Fabritius. This is how one would like Moscow's housing-office art to look, but alas, this is a quite different cultural city.