Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
I did not attend the guided tour, only chatted with friends, but that will not stop me from dissecting the curatorial conception. First, given that we are dealing not with an exhibition but with a format for the temporary display of part of the museum's collection within its
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Shift Gallery has opened a new space at 5c1 Petrovsky Boulevard. In a season when the news pours out nothing but closures, it is pleasant to see that the young and bold are, for a change, opening things and reopening them. The first exhibition is called "Under Observation"
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Faith · Art · Museums
The Annunciation is the earliest good news in European culture, a message that came true in the flesh. This week, five exhibitions on a promise and its fate: an image made flesh, sketches for a church that was never built, a colossus shown through the most fragile of materials, and
Art · Moscow · Museums
In 1920 Marc Chagall painted the auditorium of the State Jewish Chamber Theatre, the future GOSET. The central canvas, "Introduction to the Jewish Theatre" (canvas, tempera, gouache, 284 by 787 cm), occupied the main wall. Beside it came "Love on the Stage", the frieze "The
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society
Well, Muscovites will long remember the architect Kuznetsov and other officials of the city administration with kind words, as they look at the gaps in the historic fabric of the centre, filled with highly valuable items of elite real estate. Take, for instance, the site of the former Baldina apartment
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · People
"Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" has eclipsed the legacy of Vera Mukhina, and that injustice is at last being put right. From 3 June to 27 September the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art on Delegatskaya Street is showing a large retrospective of the work of the world-famous
Art · Cinema · Moscow · Observations · People
The posthumous fate of an artist is rarely decided by the artist himself. It is decided by those who remain: an heir, a pupil, a gallerist, an executor, the sort of person who will gather the scattered works, arrange them by year and spend decades patiently reminding the world of
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Herzen was finishing "My Past and Thoughts" in London, and visiting compatriots scolded him for having long since left Russia and forgotten it too well. The émigré is always charged with forgetfulness, though it is usually the homeland that does the forgetting. This week, in the rubric of
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NB! · Archive · Architecture · Faith · Moscow
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On 15 April the Moscow Soviet, sitting in the former Governor-General's House right on Skobelev Square, backed the loan by resolution. Two days later a large rally began beneath its windows, by the monument to Skobelev. The Kadets and the People's Socialists called on the
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A rally on Skobelev Square in Moscow, April 1917. Today the square can be recognised by the church of Saints Cosmas and Damian peeping out from behind the building. Yes, yes, this is how Tverskaya Square looked a hundred years ago. On the very spot where the monument to the