Art · Museums · Heritage · People
In the storeroom of a small museum in northern France, a painting by the Renaissance artist Lavinia Fontana has been found. The picture had been lying about in storage for the past 150 years. Fontana is considered one of the first professional women artists in Europe, and the discovery of
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
Among today's news, besides the session of the Council for Culture and the Arts, there is a very pleasant message from the Tretyakov Gallery for Culture Worker's Day: to keep the creator alive within oneself, and to remember that culture workers turn routine into a work
Architecture · Geography · Cinema · Museums
Orava Castle is a medieval fortress in Slovakia, perched on a 112-metre rock above the River Orava. It was here that the 1922 film "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" was shot. True, in the plot the castle stands in Romania. In 2015, in the castle, where a
Museums · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
Regarding the girls who slipped into the Hermitage for a commercial shoot, avoiding the official fee for this kind of use of museum spaces, the following must be understood. No one's private commercial interests should be placed on the opposite pan of the scales from good order in
Art · Madrid · Museums · Science
The programme took 10 years to develop: it automatically counts the threads of a canvas, which makes it possible to refine attribution and dating. With its help, a painting attributed to Francisco Rizi in a 2023 exhibition has been reattributed to Francisco Herrera the Younger. The programme can be used
NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Paris · Ethnography
Art · Museums · Nature
Botticelli's "Primavera" depicts nine figures from classical mythology, following one another across a flowering meadow in an orange and laurel grove. This very masterpiece of the Renaissance has had 138 species of plants precisely identified in it. The composition of the painting remains a riddle, but
In the Press · Art · Museums · Heritage
Norfolk resident Barbara de Dozsa refuses to return Antonio Solario's "Madonna and Child", stolen in 1973 from the Civic Museum of Belluno (Italy), reports Artguide. Some time ago Mrs de Dozsa's husband acquired the work without knowing its provenance. The painting, which appeared on
Museums · Society · Nature · Humour
Ministry of Culture Holds Contest for the Title of Chief Pet-Guardian of Cultural Institutions. The finalists are Karamelka the pony from Tsarskoye Selo, Thomas the cat from the Ivan Pavlovich Bardin Museum of Science and Technology, Mashunya the cat from the Pskov City Cultural Centre, Dymka the cat from
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
A remarkable exhibition of the museum's collection, amassed over 25 years, is on at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka. MMOMA is usually perceived as a scattering of exhibition spaces across the city centre, and it is all the more interesting to make acquaintance with the
Art · Museums · New York · Society
The first, "Before America", was a group show devoted to the transatlantic slave trade and the African diaspora, featuring work by contemporary Afro-Latin American, Caribbean and African American artists. Museum staff reported that the Trump administration had withdrawn funding from the exhibition, due to open on 21
Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
The Centre Pompidou has closed, but there is still a reason, and a chance, to visit it. Gallerie 4, which remains open until June, is currently hosting an exhibition of the architect and conceptual artist Hans Hollein (1934–2014), who worked in extreme design and architecture for more than fifty