Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Thaw, one of the great milestones of our twentieth-century culture, had its shadow side too, and that is the canvas of the exhibition "The Dark Thaw" at the Voznesensky Centre. What are these dark places? Little-known art that stayed in the shade. Names that never
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The Russian Museum has shown Deineka's monumental panels for the first time in 50 years at the exhibition "Alexander Deineka. Singer of the New Life". The project is timed to coincide with the 125th anniversary of the eminent Soviet artist. The exhibition presents about 90 works
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society Pages · Humour
Those who remember the exhibition "Zlotnikov. The Signal System" at the New Tretyakov Gallery will find that it differs from this one. At Ground Solyanka there is more painting, and there are sculptures that I, for one, am seeing for the first time, while documents and photographs are
Archive · Monarchies · Museums
The sword of Francis I has a curious history: it was taken from him by an Italian colonel after his capture in Lombardy in 1525. In the reign of Philip II this sword, with its magnificent hilt, found its way into the Spanish royal armoury. The weapon returned to France
Art · Museums · Observations · Mores
But the painting "Aunt Sasha" by David Petrovich Shterenberg simply will not let go. From the collection of the State Russian Museum. 1922-1923. The Civil War has only just ended. Before us sits a Russian village woman in a cornflower-blue headscarf and blouse. She is no
Archaeology · The East · Museums · Heritage
A bronze statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, held by the Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), is to be returned to Turkey after years of scholarly and legal inquiry. The statue, dated to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD, was illegally removed from the ancient city of Bubon in the
Coming Up · Faith · Art · Museums · Observations
Near Oryol, at the Turgenev Museum-Reserve Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the exhibition "Invisible Threads. Christian and Historical Subjects in the Work of Russian Artists" is open until 30 March. A rare opportunity to see masterpieces of Russian art in regional museum halls. The exhibition presents works by Repin, Vasnetsov,
Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, together with The Art Newspaper Russia, has presented the project "This Is the Best We Have". The Art Newspaper Russia's Choice. The exhibition is a retrospective of Russian contemporary art over more than half a century. The display includes selected
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In 2003 the Getty Museum acquired three miniatures from the fifteenth-century manuscript "The Hours of Louis XII", created by the court artist and painter of the French Renaissance Jean Bourdichon. One of the miniatures, depicting King Louis XII surrounded by four saints, seemed incomplete: the saints were
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Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Science · Paris
Yes, my favourite museum in Moscow is still the Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Neskuchny Garden. Let us compare it with the Galerie de Minéralogie et de Géologie in the Jardin des plantes in Paris, which occupies a building of somewhat grander proportions, yet looks almost like the Fersman Museum. The
Architecture · Faith · Art · Museums · Society · Paris
A guide to the posts published on the channel in the first two weeks of February. Besides a great many posts about Paris, there was cultural news, surveys of social problems and astonishing stories from the past. 📌 The story of Saint Plautilla, who handed her veil to the Apostle Paul