NB! · In the Press · Books · Moscow
The Parnassian Mockingbird has made the top 100 books at the Non/fiction intellectual literature fair, and at the AST stand they said it had sold out as early as yesterday. But should you need it, the book is still available in the shops and online
Geography · Moscow · Observations · Reportage
I rode the retro Metro train of 1935. The interior reproduces the finish of the first carriages of the Moscow Metro: metal wall lamps with white shades, original handrails, the colour scheme, aluminium edging painted to look like wood, beech crossbars at the windows, and embossed plastic panels on the
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
A new exhibition has opened at Garage that you want to go on looking at, and looking at. It is called “Choosing the Distance: Speculations, Fakes, Forecasts in the Era of the Coronacene”. It is hard to single out one exhibit or one artist, for literally everything impresses. We shall
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Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
Garage has made an excellent video on how endowments, that is, a museum's designated funds, work, with the help of Garage the cat, pumpkins, and examples from ancient Greece, modern America and Sweden. It at once made me want to eat a Garage doughnut, otherwise known as a
Architecture · Moscow · Science · People
99 years ago today, the first radio signal was transmitted from Engineer Shukhov's tower. The first broadcast of the Comintern Television Tower was a concert of Russian music featuring Nadezhda Obukhova and Boris Evlakhov. As you pass this tower on Shabolovka, know that its engineering solution, devised and
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Dropped in at the flea market at the Museum of Moscow on Zubovsky Boulevard. Spent only 1,000 roubles. But I have my eye on a few things
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
Elizaveta Likhacheva, Director of the Museum of Architecture, has announced that the scientific restoration of the Melnikov House, built in 1927-1929 and functioning as a museum for the past 50 years, will begin this year and last four years: “We plan to approve the restoration project by the end
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
An exhibition of human corpses is about to open at VDNKh. In effect, the Body Worlds project is a travelling morgue which, under the name of Dr Hagens, wanders the globe displaying human bodies saturated, soon after death, with a special compound to prevent decay and lend the tissues elasticity.
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The Museum of the Moscow Art Theatre continues its parade of VKhUTEMAS exhibitions. At the Stanislavsky House-Museum in Leontyevsky Lane, "Lessons of VKhUTEMAS" opened today. The focus is on the work of VKhUTEMAS graduates Ariadna Arendt and her first and second husbands, Meer Aizenshtadt and Anatoly Grigoryev.