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Towards the close of the day, in the manner of a "farewell tour", I looked in on the opening of the Rosizo exhibition "Trin-trava" at the Turgenev-Botkin mansion in Petroverigsky Lane
Towards the close of the day, in the manner of a "farewell tour", I looked in on the opening of the Rosizo exhibition "Trin-trava" at the Turgenev-Botkin mansion in Petroverigsky Lane. There are some interesting interpretations of the Russian style, but on the whole
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
Photographs from the exhibition on the letter Ё at the Slovo pavilion, VDNKh
Photographs from the exhibition on the letter Ё at the Slovo pavilion, VDNKh. A very atmospheric and coherent picture. It is a pity that we shall soon be deprived of public cultural life altogether, though visiting museums is, of course, hundreds of times safer than going to shops and restaurants,
Coming Up · Books · Museums · People · Saint Petersburg
And in Saint Petersburg, until 31 December (for the time being) one may (God willing) still visit the exhibition "Joseph Brodsky
And in Saint Petersburg, until 31 December (for the time being) one may (God willing) still visit the exhibition "Joseph Brodsky. Preserve My Shadow", built on the interiors and the history of the one and a half rooms in a communal flat at 24 Liteyny, where the Brodsky
Coming Up · Moscow · Museums · Observations
And yet, at the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, a new season of the festival "Fridays at the Pushkin" has begun, due to run until 25 December
And yet, at the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, a new season of the festival "Fridays at the Pushkin" has begun, due to run until 25 December. This year the friends of the museum have been offered a poetic collaboration with the actors
Art · Museums · Observations · Education · People
Rousseau portrait by Quentin de La Tour from the Salon of 1753, copy in Saint-Quentin
At university, in philosophy classes, I positively loathed Rousseau and metaphysics in general, considering it meaningless chatter that stole time from proper authors like Kuhn and Popper. But, all things considered, Jean-Jacques is a rather agreeable fellow. Especially in the guise of a citizen of Geneva in this portrait
Coming Up · Art · Monarchies · Museums
Exhibition on Catherine II with her manuscripts and personal items at the Kazan Kremlin
In Kazan, as part of the Hermitage Days, a most interesting exhibition is under way: "Catherine the Great. The Golden Age of the Russian Empire". It offers not only works of art that captured the Empress, but also the personal belongings of Catherine II and her grandsons, and
Coming Up · Books · Moscow · Museums
The exhibition “Dots over Ё” on the history of the letter ё is open at the Slovo Centre at VDNKh until 11 January 2021
Until 11 January 2021 the “Slovo” Centre at VDNKh in Moscow is hosting the exhibition “Dots over Ё”, devoted to the history of one of the most controversial letters of the Russian alphabet. The exhibition offers a kind of retrospective of letter usage from the 13th century to the present
Faith · Books · Museums · People
Francesco Morosini's Bible with a pistol hidden inside its pages
Francesco Morosini, famed above all for his military successes in the name of Venice and remembered in history as the man who destroyed the Parthenon in Athens, was terribly afraid of assassination and hid weapons for self-defence everywhere. Here is his Bible, whose bookmark served as the trigger of
NB! · Museums · Heritage · Nature
The mummified cat and mouse of the late seventeenth century in the Museo Correr, Venice: pets of the celebrated commander, Doge Francesco Morosini
Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
The banker's wife Sophie Couteux du Molay with her children, a miniature of 1787 by Jacques-Antoine Lemoine called The Balcony
The banker's wife Sophie Couteux du Molay with her children, a miniature of 1787 by Jacques-Antoine Lemoine called The Balcony. It is in the collection of the Louvre. I am very fond of the slanting, carelessly fixed blinds, and of the boy holding the cord in his
Art · Museums · New York
How can gallery-goers who linger before a single picture at a private view help art?
How can gallery-goers who linger before a single picture at a private view help art? A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York noticed that the exhibition “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” was missing several paintings from the master's celebrated series “Struggle: From the