Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg

Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, Rogier van der Weyden, 1440

One of the copies of this work is in the Hermitage

Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography

Figures in Russian and Bashkir national costume

Figures in Russian and Bashkir national costume. From the Berlin dessert service, after models by Friedrich Elias Meyer. Prussia, Berlin, Royal Porcelain Manufactory, 1770-1772. Porcelain, overglaze painting, gilding Hermitage Collection

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Fashion exhibitions until January 2026, from Paul Poiret and Worth to Rick Owens and the Louvre

Tomorrow brings our customary roundup of new museum and gallery exhibitions in Moscow, but today I suggest you save a route through the fashion exhibitions now running in Paris. 📌 Paul Poiret, la mode est une fête. Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) - until 11 January 2026. A major retrospective of a

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"The Handshake of Abraham Lincoln and Alexander II": a sculpture installed in the park before the Burganov House Museum on Sivtsev Vrazhek

Although this meeting never took place in reality, many note the similarity between these two rulers, and the former US Congressman James Symington called them "friends who were never destined to meet, but who were kindred spirits." The monument was created in 2011 and first shown at the

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Valery Yurlov retrospective at the New Tretyakov Gallery and an Art Focus video interview

Valery Ivanovich Yurlov is a leading figure of Russian neo-avant-garde and non-objective painting, author of the "para-forms" method and of series in which he explores the relations of forms, their interaction and transformation. Valery Yurlov's works are held in the collections of

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Allegory of the Victory at Chesma

"The sea; in the distance the Russian fleet can be seen; in the foreground Empress Catherine II in a chariot drawn by sea-horses and guided by Neptune; on the right side of the chariot is Minerva, and on the left a genius holds fettered Turks on a chain

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Casket for Catherine II's Charters to the City of Tver, in Gilt Bronze

The casket was intended for the safekeeping of important founding documents and charters granted for the administration of the governorates of the All-Russian Empire". The Tver Viceroyalty, established on 25 November 1775, became the first administrative-territorial unit of the new pattern in the Russian Empire. The casket

Archaeology · Museums · Science · Saint Petersburg

Cambridge archaeologists find hidden tattoos on Pazyryk woman's mummy held in the Hermitage

Intricate Tattoos Discovered on a 2,500-Year-Old Mummy from Siberia. British archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have used modern scanning methods to study the mummified remains of a woman of the Pazyryk culture, held in the Hermitage. The study, published in the journal Antiquity, revealed tattoos on

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Othoniel's solo exhibition spans the museums and historic sites of Avignon

Works by Jean-Michel Othoniel in Avignon. Yes, this is the same contemporary artist whose chandelier of multicoloured glass beads hangs in the Petit Palais in Paris; his style is instantly recognisable. At present, works by Othoniel are on show in all the museums and historic sights of Avignon. I

Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris

The French government has presented a bill intended to simplify the restitution to their countries of origin of works of art removed in the colonial era, reports Artguide

The French government has presented a bill intended to simplify the restitution to their countries of origin of works of art removed in the colonial era, reports Artguide. If the law is adopted, the process of returning objects from France's national collections that originate from states which lost

Art · London · Museums · Society

London's Tate Modern has been the most visited museum of modern art since 2014, except in 2021, when the lead passed to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and to MoMA in New York

In recent years, however, the museum has faced falling attendance, especially among foreign visitors, who make up its core audience. In 2019–2020, for instance, there were more than 600,000 young people aged 16 to 24; in 2023–2024 there were only 357,000. The Art Newspaper writes that

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