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The customary round-up of exhibitions in Moscow's galleries and museums. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Icons of the Soviet Period” at the Izmailovo estate, until 22 December 📌 10 December: opening of the exhibition “George Cohen. Theory of Shadow” at the pop/off/art gallery, until 23 January 📌 Solo
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Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz masterfully creates a double memorial portrait of his late mother and father, depicting his father, himself an artist, painting a portrait of his mother. Both his parents look out at us from 1550. Collection of the Toledo Museum of Art
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Eugène Delacroix's album and notes from his journey to Morocco in 1832. Delacroix brought back from Morocco 800 sheets of sketches and seven notebooks making up the diary of his travels, of which only four have survived: three are kept in the Louvre, and one in the Musée
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I almost forgot to share pictures from the new open storage display at the Garage Museum. Little by little we are learning what exactly one of the finest collections of contemporary art in the country looks like. There is much that one will not see in the New Tretyakov, for
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At the end of November, a serious accident occurred in the library of the Louvre's Department of Egyptian Antiquities: at about 21:00 on 27 November, old pipes in the suspended ceiling burst. Dirty water flooded the rooms, damaging some 400 rare books, including their antique bindings. The
Faith · Art · Museums · Observations
I have not been to Florence for some five years, but I remember distinctly the impression made by Domenico Ghirlandaio's Adoration of the Magi of around 1488 in the Foundling Hospital. The painter modestly included a self-portrait in the scene: the figure on the left in red
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The Louvre will raise ticket prices for most visitors from outside the EU. Tourists from the USA, the United Kingdom and China, for example, will have to pay €32. The increase will come into effect on 14 January. This step is expected to increase annual revenue by €15–20 million.
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Mikhail Piotrovsky has summed up the work of the Union of Museums of Russia. The occasion: the Union of Museums has presented a strategy for the development of the sector over the next five years. Among its proposals are the legislative definition of the terms "museum" and "
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📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “The Rules of the Game: How Sport Shaped Culture” at the New Manege, until 4 December 📌 Closing soon: Mikhail Krunov’s exhibition “The Supracultural Absolute, or a Sensory Investigation of Time” at the a—s—t—r—a gallery, until 5 October 📌 The exhibition “From Dawn
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Philadelphia Museum of Art has filed a lawsuit against its former director and CEO Sasha Suda, reports Artguide. The suit states that she “misappropriated the museum's funds and lied to conceal the theft”. Suda was recently dismissed from the museum after three years in the post, despite the
Museums · Heritage · Paris
It turns out that as early as 2018 the jewellery house of Van Cleef & Arpels conducted a security audit of the Louvre, in which it named as the most vulnerable spot precisely that balcony above the Galerie d'Apollon through which the thieves gained entry. The assessment noted