Gold ring with an oval bezel engraved with a bird in flight, its wing raised, beside a small branch and plants.

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg

Gold ring with an image of a bird in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum

Scythian gold ring with a flying duck, 4th century BC, from the Chertomlyk kurgan. Collection of the State Hermitage Museum

A stag head with branching antlers and an ornamented piece displayed in a museum case.

Archaeology · The East · Museums · Ethnography

Arrangement of ten horses in the Pazyryk burial mound, Hermitage collection

A 2,300-year-old ceremonial horse headdress found on the skeleton of a horse in the frozen tombs of Pazyryk in Siberia. Eight of the ten horses in the Pazyryk kurgan were arranged in two rows with their heads turned to the east, while two horses in the western

Stone mascaron head with bulging eyes, a large nose and curled moustache on a white plinth in a museum hall.

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums

Stone mascaron with a moustache from an 18th-century Moscow house at the Museum of Moscow

A moustached mascaron from an eighteenth-century Moscow house. Museum of Moscow

Art · Books · Moscow · Museums

The Multimedia Art Museum continues to honour the legacy of our distinguished contemporary Erik Bulatov, this time with the opening of the exhibition "A Marvellous Journey" by Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev, spanning thirty years of joint work…

Here is how the curators describe the exhibition: For the representatives of unofficial Soviet art, illustrations for children's books were not only a means of earning a living but also a space of creative freedom. Art for children was censored more gently, and for the Conceptualist artists the

Art · Museums · Heritage · Society · Saint Petersburg

Finnish customs detained more than 200 Russian museum exhibits at Vaalimaa in 2022

Finnish customs conclude investigation into Russian cultural treasures detained in spring 2022. Finnish customs officers detained vehicles carrying works of art from Russian museums in April 2022. More than 200 exhibits were placed under arrest, among them items from the collections of the State Hermitage, the Tretyakov Gallery, and the

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

Works by the contemporary Scandinavian artists Elmgreen and Dragset at the Musée d'Orsay: the works from the L'Addition series were created specially for the Orsay exhibition, in dialogue with its iconic sculptural decoration and the museum's permanent co

Faith · Art · Books · Museums · Observations · Paris

"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering

"It is very hard for people to renounce the expediency of everything that happens in the world, and therefore hard to understand innocent suffering. To many it seems that if there is innocent suffering, then there is no God, no divine providence. This is one of the arguments of

A portrait head made of a gnarled tree trunk with branches and ivy, wearing a woven straw cloak, with a lemon and an orange on a twig, against a dark background.

Art · Museums · Humour

Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s painting “Winter” of 1563 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

Winter, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563. Strange that there are no tangerines. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

NB! · Faith · Art · Museums · People

The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, 1784, Sir Henry Raeburn, National Galleries of Scotland

Coming Up · The East · Art · Moscow · Museums · Saint Petersburg

A Few Words on the Tretyakov Gallery's Exhibition Plans

The Tretyakov Gallery will open the year with a retrospective of the artist Francisco Infante, "The Formula of Infinity". In spring the New Tretyakov will host the exhibition "The Road to the East", a project about the Russian artists who worked in Central Asia in the

Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg

“Repin. Details” exhibition for Ilya Repin’s 180th birthday opens at Academy of Arts Museum

The Academy of Arts Museum in Saint Petersburg has opened the exhibition "Repin. Details." The project marks the 180th anniversary of the birth of Ilya Repin and is devoted to the world of objects in the paintings of the great Russian artist, to his approach to work, and

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage

Pushkin Museum to show rescued masterpieces, the Baryatinsky collection and French drawing

The Pushkin Museum Unveils Its Exhibition Programme for 2025. Of particular interest are the exhibitions in the Main Building, "Returning to the Future. On the History of Masterpieces Lost and Saved in the Second World War" and "The Museum of the Baryatinskys. European Art of the 17th–