Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Vasily Polenov, Ilya Repin, Isaac Levitan, Kazimir Malevich, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Leon Bakst and Konstantin Somov, all fitting into a matchbox or a school pencil case? The Jewish Museum is showing miniature art, so rarely exhibited in the "big" museums: from sketches and studies to independent tiny
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At the Old Stock Greenhouse in the Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the presentation of Roma Uvarov's new upcycled collection. The building is phenomenal, dating from the late 1940s, the core of its plant collection came from the Potsdam greenhouse, received in 1947, and the
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"Masha Ovchinnikova and Vadim Ginzburg suggested that I take on an exhibition of Rezo Gabriadze and four Moscow women artists with whom Rezo had enjoyed a friendship of many years. Much in Rezo's life was tied to Moscow. He staged plays here (for a time he even
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At Garage, Natalia Turnova's Egg and Stone have been installed, and they can be viewed for free, since they are displayed in the museum foyer. The idols will last until 22 August and will most likely be destroyed, which is a pity, as I would gladly have installed
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The Standard-Bearer, The Monstrous Sow, Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, The Virgin with the Pear, Saint Jerome in His Study. The exhibition of Dürer's engravings at the State Historical Museum makes a very powerful impression. And, incidentally, unlike many critics, I have no quarrel with the
In the Press · Art · Moscow · Museums
How to Enjoy Speculations and Fakes at the New Exhibition at Garage? At the height of the pandemic, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art invited artists to reflect on the future, and the result is a large exhibition, "Choosing Distance: Speculations, Fakes, Forecasts in the Age of the Coronacene&
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At a tiny exhibition at Hide Gallery in Cube.Moscow I came across this island talisman. The sculpture has a most interesting history: the gallerists found it in the studio of an artist who carves such figures from coral in some little village in the Seychelles, to protect his family
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Andrei Sakharov's Nobel certificate. A facsimile copy is on display at the Ground Solyanka gallery
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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, recommends on her Instagram blog Amor Towles's "A Gentleman in Moscow", a book about the life of Count Rostov, confined by the Bolsheviks in... the Metropol Hotel. Well, for a third recommendation it is an interesting choice. One can hardly refuse Cam,
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The first sight of Moscow. John Pott Laslett. On 2 September Napoleon approached Moscow and climbed Poklonnaya Hill, expecting that at any moment, somewhere near Dragomilovo, a delegation of townspeople would present him with the keys to the city. But by that day, of the 270,000 inhabitants the ancient
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