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Central Museum of Russian Cossacks to be Housed in a Mansion in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane

A Museum of the Cossacks is to open in Moscow. It will become part of the complex of the State Historical Museum. The Central Museum of the Russian Cossacks will be housed in an old mansion in Bolshoy Levshinsky Lane, where before the Revolution of 1917 the Palace Department had

Museums · Observations · Society

There Is No Such Thing as a Voluntary Change of Power

Museum directors, television channel heads, editors-in-chief of magazines, radio stations and newspapers, presidents of academies, university rectors, heads of film studios and theatres: all of them change very rarely indeed. YOU can readily recall all the names yourselves. In the leading institutions the management typically stays put not

Art · Books · Museums · Paris

Pavel Antokolsky’s poem about Velázquez and the portrait of the Infanta

The painter was ardent, affable, pure, clever. He knew that the rosy, timid child Was long since dry and yellow, like a squeezed lemon; That in the pulse of those veins are the dreams of many buried; That it is not Brabant lace that is beyond price, But that, surely,

Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour

I kept wondering why the exhibition in the Green Foyer of the Moscow Art Theatre, devoted to six productions of "The Seagull" and at the same time to Chekhov's 165th anniversary, is called "From Konstantin to Konstantin"

I kept wondering why the exhibition in the Green Foyer of the Moscow Art Theatre, devoted to six productions of "The Seagull" and at the same time to Chekhov's 165th anniversary, is called "From Konstantin to Konstantin". It turns out that what is meant

Reddish line drawing on a marble slab: a nude youth fights a centaur, with a third figure visible on the right.

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums

Marble drawing of Theseus and a centaur from Herculaneum, Naples museum

A delightful preparatory drawing on marble: Theseus and the Centaur. Found at Herculaneum, AD 20-30. On display at the Archaeological Museum of Naples

Antique black and red carriage with gilded decoration, the name Sorino on its side and a red cross on the body, in a stone courtyard.

Cinema · Museums · Mores

Sorino's mobile dental surgery, he being the inventor of galvanic water, served as an ambulance in the 1870s

The travelling dentist's carriage at the National Automobile Museum in Compiègne, France, recalls the wagon in which the dentist Dr King Schultz travelled in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" This mobile dental surgery belonged to Sorino, the inventor of galvanic water, that is, to all

Art · Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg

The "Sleeping Shepherd Boy" Vase, with Ornamental Details Featuring Balalaika and Sheaf Motifs, Presented to Empress Maria Alexandrovna, Wife of Alexander II, for Christmas 1858

After the painted original by Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov. Russia, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Porcelain Factory. Porcelain, overglaze painting, gilding; bronze, chasing. Ostankino and Kuskovo Museum-Reserve. Photo from the exhibition "The Unknown Shchukin" at the Pushkin Museum

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Matisse's Watercolour Sketch for The Red Studio at the Unknown Shchukin Exhibition

Beside Matisse's "Pink Studio" at the Pushkin Museum's new exhibition "The Unknown Shchukin" hangs a watercolour sketch of the painting "The Red Studio", which he enclosed in a letter to Shchukin, counting on the collector's support. Shchukin could

Painting of a boy in a brown coat standing alone in a courtyard, while a group of pupils in dark uniforms with red trim look at him and point.

Art · Museums · Paris · People

A lone boy and his mocking peers in uniform in an autumn school courtyard

At Malmaison, Napoleon's best-known residence, now a museum of the Napoleonic era, a recently acquired painting of the young Bonaparte at Brienne has been hung. What a familiar opening. A lone figure among mocking enemies, rejected by all and accepted by none. What happens next in such

Black and white ink drawing of cats running across an open space at night, with a large lit building and a full moon behind them.

Art · Museums · Paris

Taiyo Matsumoto, a contemporary Japanese artist, and his drawing of cats

The Cats of the Louvre. The contemporary Japanese artist Taiyo Matsumoto

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome

The Lancelotti Discobolus, a Roman copy of Myron's statue found on the Esquiline in 1781

The chief masterpiece of the Palazzo Massimo in Rome is one of the best-known ancient sculptures, the Lancellotti Discobolus, 2nd century BC, itself a marble copy of the legendary bronze original of the 5th century BC by the sculptor Myron. The Discobolus was one of the celebrated ancient Greek

Black and white photograph of a granite relief with four standing baboon figures in a museum display.

NB! · Faith · The East · Art · Museums · Paris · Nature

Relief of four baboons from the Temple of Amun at Thebes, Louvre collection

Baboons worshipping the sun. Stone relief from the Theban temple of Amun, Louvre collection