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Dropped in at the flea market at the Museum of Moscow on Zubovsky Boulevard

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

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

The Body Worlds exhibition at VDNKh and the ethics of displaying human bodies in museums

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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Stanislavski House Museum opens “Lessons of VKHUTEMAS” exhibition with works by Ariadna Arendt

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.

Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Education

Exhibition on the VKhUTEMAS Architecture Faculty on View at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture

At the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, a long-awaited major exhibition devoted to the Architecture Faculty of VKhUTEMAS. Who, if not MUAR, should show the genuine masterpieces of the Vkhutemas students, and at last it has come to pass. Moreover, this project looks far more advantageous than the exhibition on

A display case in a gilded frame with a clock among bookcases, holding costumed monkey figures playing instruments in a hall with painted walls.

NB! · Art · Museums · Humour

Mechanical monkey orchestra, probably late 18th century, in a gilded frame with a clock

Nothing special, just a monkey orchestra, supposedly of the late eighteenth century, though the ceiling paintings and candelabra point to the historicism of the nineteenth. The mechanism, alas, is broken

Round miniature of a hand from the clouds holding a red heart on a thread above a river and town, inscribed Non habet fundum.

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Miniature of a heart from Jacob Hoefnagel's 1634 book in the British Museum collection

This has no end. From the book Gloria Crocodilus of 1634 by the Flemish artist Jacob Hoefnagel, with 82 allegorical miniatures. From the collection of the British Museum

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Lenin in the VKhUTEMAS hostel on 25 February 1921, arguing with the students about Futurism, Mayakovsky and the future of art

Lenin in the VKhUTEMAS hostel on 25 February 1921, arguing with the students about Futurism, Mayakovsky and the future of art. Behind him stands Nadezhda Krupskaya in a pale blue dress. A very beautiful work by Alexey Sotnikov, 1965, from a very rich exhibition marking the centenary of VKhUTEMAS

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Cleopatra with an Egyptian cobra, onyx, Milan, turn of the 16th and 17th centuries

Cleopatra with an Egyptian cobra, onyx, Milan, turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. Collection of the British Museum

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Last week I visited the exhibition of the Ball and Cross, which became a sensation during the pandemic, by your old acquaintance Max Boxer at the Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts

Last week I visited the exhibition of the Ball and Cross, which became a sensation during the pandemic, by your old acquaintance Max Boxer at the Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts. And do you know, Boxer is still the best at what he does. A splendid collection of young

Art · Moscow · Museums · Ethnography

A simple story at the Garage Triennial of Contemporary Art: the friendship of two creators, the Russian painter of the Arctic Alexander Borisov (1866-1934) and the Nenets self-taught talent, the first artist of Novaya Zemlya, Tyko Vylka (1886-1960)

A simple story at the Garage Triennial of Contemporary Art: the friendship of two creators, the Russian painter of the Arctic Alexander Borisov (1866-1934) and the Nenets self-taught talent, the first artist of Novaya Zemlya, Tyko Vylka (1886-1960). Vylka learned to draw from a tear-off calendar

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Demonstration, Alexander Monin, 1924

Demonstration, Alexander Monin, 1924. From the exhibition “VKhUTEMAS 100. School of the Avant-Garde” at the Museum of Moscow