Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

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

Museums · Society · Nature

Khmelita Museum-Reserve urges people to stop burning dry grass, which kills wildlife

The Khmelita Museum-Reserve is using its Instagram to urge people not to burn dry grass. A grass fire is a terrible wound to nature and a disaster for many living creatures. When grass is set alight by these ill-starred gardeners, leverets, born in April, perish, along with birds&

Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society

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.

NB! · Archaeology · Museums · New York

Rock crystal objects of the 3rd to 5th centuries AD, found at Carthage and held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Exhibition of Nizhny Novgorod artists at Richter, opened on 30 March

Since today is a museum day, I am recalling the exhibition that opened at Richter on 30 March and brought together artists from Nizhny Novgorod. It was a great pleasure to see. The works are excellent, the artists deserve praise. In order, among what caught my eye: Vladimir Chernyshev, Trajectory

Coming Up · Museums · Observations · New York · Society

Molina Family Gallery on Latinos in the United States to open in 2022

In 2022 a vast gallery devoted to the Latino experience in the United States will open in New York. The Molina Family Gallery will be housed in the National Museum of American History and will concentrate on the historical and cultural heritage of American Latinos and their contribution to American

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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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The exhibition “Choosing Distance” on the Coronacene era opens at Garage

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

NB! · Moscow · Museums · People

Irina Antonova would have been 99 today

Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour

Garage Museum made a video on how endowments, or museum target funds, work

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

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When One Is Delighted by Museums That Actually Work

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