NB! · Art · Museums

Save it as your phone wallpaper

Save it as your phone wallpaper. “Pissing Death” or “Death at the Water” by Max Klinger, the founder of the gloomy school of graphic art and a neoclassicist, 1880, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig.

Art · Museums · People

Carel Fabritius, pupil of Rembrandt, killed in the 1654 explosion of gunpowder stores in Delft

Self-portrait of Carel Fabritius, founder of the Delft school of painting, killed on this day in 1654 in the monstrous explosion of the gunpowder magazine at Delft, where he had settled four years before his death. The artist lived to be only 32, yet managed to win renown as

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris · Nature

If loyalty, then canine

If loyalty, then canine. So vivid a characterisation that the subject of a dog lying at its master's grave needs no explanation. A little-known painting by the animalier Alfred de Dreux, 1850, acquired by the Louvre in 2001.

Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations

Among the interesting exhibitions currently on, I would visit "Avant-Garde

Among the interesting exhibitions currently on, I would visit "Avant-Garde. By Cart into the 21st Century" in Yekaterinburg. It is a joint project of the Yeltsin Centre and the "Encyclopaedia of the Russian Avant-Garde", devoted to displays of contemporary art in the provincial towns

Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Reportage

Review of the 2020 Photobiennale at MAMM with works by Mukhin, Chilikov and Epstein

Went to the Photobiennale 2020 at MAMM, sharing my photographic impressions. Photographs of photographs are a genre of their own, and one that, I think, would be far more successful were it not for the glass between the viewer and the object of art. The first thing you see on

Coming Up · Moscow · Museums

Prokofiev Museum accepts entries for the fifth composers’ competition until 1 November

The Prokofiev Museum invites registrations for the 5th Open Composers' Competition "Prokofiev's Time", which this year is presented in the category "Composition for Balalaika, Bayan and Saxophone, 'In the Folk Spirit'". Musicians may submit their applications until 1 November. The jury

Aristocracy · Archive · Moscow · Museums

A unique piece from the furnishings of the Ostankino Palace, commissioned by Count Nikolay Petrovich Sheremetev in 1794: a gilded incense burner of copper, brass, marble and wood from the workshop of Paul Spoll

A unique piece from the furnishings of the Ostankino Palace, commissioned by Count Nikolay Petrovich Sheremetev in 1794: a gilded incense burner of copper, brass, marble and wood from the workshop of Paul Spoll. The advertising description in the newspapers of the late 18th century sets out at length the

Coming Up · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography

A reminder that until 4 October the exhibition "Earthly Beauty: The Image of Woman in Folk Culture" can be seen in Saint Petersburg, prepared by specialists of the Russian Museum of Ethnography from ethnographic collections of the 19th-20…

A reminder that until 4 October the exhibition "Earthly Beauty: The Image of Woman in Folk Culture" can be seen in Saint Petersburg. It has been prepared by specialists of the Russian Museum of Ethnography from ethnographic collections of the 19th-20th centuries and historical photographs illustrating the

Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg

Museum community on benefits for museum staff and the Hermitage's position

As for the view from the museum community, concessions are laid down in an order of the Russian Ministry of Culture, but there is also a list of concessions that a museum sets for itself, and the Hermitage has evidently availed itself of that right. In most museums, staff from

Moscow · Museums · Observations · Education · Society

Back in my postgraduate days I noted with vexation that the overwhelming majority of Moscow museums did not count a postgraduate card as a student one, and not only denied free entry, although one would think that a history faculty should be able to visit

Back in my postgraduate days I noted with vexation that the overwhelming majority of Moscow museums did not count a postgraduate card as a student one, and not only denied free entry (although one would think that a history faculty should be able to visit at least the historical museums

Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society

The Museum of Architecture Hosts a Debate on Demolition and Construction in the Historic Zone of Ivanovskaya Gorka in Moscow

The Museum of Architecture has provided a venue for a debate on the demolition and construction of buildings in the historic zone of Ivanovskaya Gorka in Moscow. The background is as follows. On Kolpachny Lane, within a protected zone, a five-storey business centre is planned, complete with glazed attic,

Coming Up · Books · Museums · Saint Petersburg

In the Korf Hall of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg, at 18 Sadovaya Street, an intriguing exhibition, "Legends of the NLR: Rossica

In the Korf Hall of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg, at 18 Sadovaya Street, an intriguing exhibition, "Legends of the NLR: Rossica. Marking the 170th Anniversary of the Founding of the Collection", is now open, presenting works by foreigners about Russia from the 18th to