Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
While the main building of the Centre Pompidou in Paris closes for lengthy renovation, a new branch of the museum is planned to open in the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, not far from the Iguazu Falls. The museum's activity will focus both on displaying part of
Architecture · Museums · Society · Paris
Never Enough for Them! Funding for the Louvre renovation project remains in question, reports TANR. Since 2021 the director of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, has been promoting the "Grand Louvre" project, which envisages a large-scale reconstruction of the museum, including the building of a new entrance
NB! · Art · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
Subsidies for Saint Petersburg museums to buy works of art are to resume this year. In 2025 around 100 million roubles will be allocated for the purpose, the Governor of Saint Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, has announced
Faith · Art · Museums · Paris
The Louvre has acquired a private collection of 272 icons from Greece (including Crete), the Levant, Russia and other regions. The collection spans the period from the 15th to the early 20th century. The acquisition is a significant contribution to the museum's holdings, as it plans to establish
Archaeology · Archive · The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Museum of the East has lent unique materials from the excavations of the Khorezm Archaeological and Ethnographic Expedition for the exhibition "Neither Together Nor Apart" at GES-2, on the link between archaeology and modernism and on how art can make. The Khorezm Expedition worked from 1937
Coming Up · Archaeology · Moscow · Museums
The Terracotta Army Is Coming to Moscow. Now that is news! The director of the State Historical Museum has announced that in 2026 the museum will bring the legendary Terracotta Army to Moscow. This will be a truly large-scale cultural event. We are currently in active negotiations with our
Museums · Heritage · Ethnography
The Fowler Museum returns 11 valuable artefacts to an Aboriginal community in Australia. On 20 May the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) handed over 11 objects to the Lawrakia community in the Northern Territory of Australia. Among them are a headband made of kangaroo teeth
Coming Up · Archive · Art · Museums
The exhibition "Love in the Avant-Garde. Mikhail Matyushin and Elena Guro" runs at the Zotov Centre for its last week, until 25 May. It is devoted to two rarely mentioned figures of the Russian avant-garde and to their influence on one another, in their work and
NB! · Museums · Pop Culture
The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Back to exhibition reviews. At the New Tretyakov Gallery, the exhibition "The Road to the East. Russian Artists in Central Asia" runs until the end of September. The display tells of the place of Eastern motifs in the work of Russian modernist artists. The interest of Russian culture
Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
Moscow collections hold a great many works by Constructivist photographers, but the systematic study and display of this legacy began only comparatively recently. Well, better late than never. An exhibition devoted to the work of members of two photographic associations, October and ROPF, has opened at the Zotov Centre. Both
NB! · Art · Museums · Mores
A brooch of bird's claw with silver-mounted citrines: a tribute to the Victorian fashion for Scotland's cultural heritage and for historicism. 1860-70s. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore