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Irina Kupchenko, Rimas Tuminas, Lyudmila Maksakova, Nina Nekhlopchenko and Kirill Krok at a memorial gathering in honour of the Vakhtangov Theatre's veterans of the front

Irina Kupchenko, Rimas Tuminas, Lyudmila Maksakova, Nina Nekhlopchenko and Kirill Krok at a memorial gathering in honour of the Vakhtangov Theatre's veterans of the front. The Vakhtangov Theatre building was destroyed at the very beginning of the war, and dozens of the theatre's actors did not

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Artist Boris Kustodiev on Easter in Moscow, the Kremlin cathedrals and the sound of bells

“And on the first day of Easter, after that great and joyous night, you go to the Kremlin, and there, in a sheltered spot, in the sun, sit the pilgrim wanderers, resting. They peel crimson-dyed eggs, and the coloured shells lie scattered all around, and somehow this goes so

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And last year, in fact, the actors of the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre wrote an appeal to Putin for Tatyana Doronina's return as artistic director

And last year, in fact, the actors of the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre wrote an appeal to Putin for Tatyana Doronina's return as artistic director. And now she is once again at the helm of the theatre. I do not know what the theatrical community makes of it,

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Speaking of aristocrats and art: on the upper floor of MAMM, an archival exhibition by Lauren Greenfield on the life of the Moscow post-Soviet elite, a photographic project of 2012-2014 in which the artist set out to capture the daily life and pretensions

Speaking of aristocrats and art: on the upper floor of MAMM, an archival exhibition by Lauren Greenfield on the life of the Moscow post-Soviet elite, a photographic project of 2012-2014 in which the artist set out to capture the daily life and pretensions of Russia's wealthy.

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Yesterday MAMM opened an exhibition of photographs by Yulia Mayorova, but I did not manage to see it: I had time only to fortify myself with two glasses of champagne and snap the corridor, with the works glimpsed at its far end, since the opening was dela

Yesterday MAMM opened an exhibition of photographs by Yulia Mayorova, but I did not manage to see it: I had time only to fortify myself with two glasses of champagne and snap the corridor, with the works glimpsed at its far end, since the opening was delayed and I had

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Safe unopened since 1917 in the Loan Treasury building in Nastasyinsky Lane, Moscow

The architect Dmitry Lurie relates that the Loan Treasury building of 1913-15 in Nastasyinsky Lane in Moscow has preserved a safe whose doors have stood unopened since 1917, so that, purely in theory, what lies inside is pre-revolutionary air. In Dmitry's photograph the marks left by

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Yury Dolgoruky Sets His Sights on the Subtropics

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The Museum of Architecture opens “The Fifth Wave”, an exhibition of artists who left Russia

In the enfilade of the main building of the Museum of Architecture, an exhibition has opened that continues my beloved 2020 Garage Triennial of Contemporary Art. If you remember, the selection of works for the 2nd Triennial at Garage was built on recommendations from artists who had taken part in

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On Patron's Day, 13 April, the Garage Museum accepts donations instead of admission fees

The Garage Museum has waived admission fees on Patron's Day, 13 April. The promise is that the initiative will be annual, in honour of Philanthropist's Day. On that day one may enter the museum by making any donation one finds comfortable to the Garage Endowment Fund.

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The Stage Gallery Continues Its Exhibition of Akhmat Bikanov, a Young Artist and Graduate of MARKHI, with Touching Watercolour Portraits of Fictional and Real People with Prominent Noses

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New York graffiti artist Harif Guzman shows photos, video and installations at MMOMA

MMOMA on Petrovka has opened an exhibition of the New York graffiti artist Hharif Guzman, bringing together his photographs, videos, graffiti, posters, signs, installations, paintings, boards and even such an art object as a shirt bearing a placard reading "this is my shirt". A very coherent and vivid

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Art Week positively teems with bright events, and here at the Triumph Gallery is the presentation of a sumptuous album from Shaltai Editions

Art Week positively teems with bright events, and here at the Triumph Gallery is the presentation of a sumptuous album from Shaltai Editions. The vivid fuchsia portfolio Le Jardin, with silkscreen prints by Alexandra Vertinskaya, sets the spring mood in a barely thawed Moscow, quite literally. The album reproduces 8