Faith · Art · Museums · Paris
Recently Found Medieval Sculpture from Notre-Dame at the Musée de Cluny
Head of Christ with closed eyes, 1230s. From the section of recently discovered medieval sculpture from Notre-Dame at the Musée de Cluny
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Art · Museums · Heritage · Paris
Annual inspection of the Mona Lisa by conservation specialists
The Louvre Shows the Reverse of the Mona Lisa. during the annual examination of the Mona Lisa to check its condition by the specialists responsible for the conservation of this masterpiece
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Museum AZ to show 70 works by Vladimir Yakovlev for the artist's 90th anniversary
On 27 November the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art on Maroseyka will open the exhibition "And in the Steppe the Wind Is Raging…", marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of the artist Vladimir Yakovlev (1934–1998) The exhibition will include 70 works from the collections of
Interviews · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
Interview on the isolation of the Russian art market and exchange of museum collections abroad
Another interesting fragment from Marina Loshak's recent interview. — Is the Russian art market content with Vasnetsov and Serov? — It is very bad when a culture, however rich and varied it may be, stews in its own juice. It is one single "broth", and every ingredient in
Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Karl Bryullov retrospective at the Russian Museum with 160 paintings and 250 watercolours
The Ascent. Perhaps this is the chief thought that comes to mind on viewing the grand retrospective of Karl Bryullov at the Russian Museum. An ascent at once of you, the viewer, and of Russian art itself, up to the level of Bryullov, who became our first great painter to
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Brullov painting from a Brussels church confiscated from collector Pevzner
The Apparition of "Christ in the Tomb" at the Russian Museum, at the "Great Karl" Exhibition. I had not expected to see this painting at the grand jubilee exhibition of Karl Bryullov. The previously unknown canvas by Bryullov, which has now featured in legal proceedings for
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Rome
Wooden model of Bernini's equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Galleria Borghese
Wooden model of Bernini's equestrian statue of Louis XIV in the Galleria Borghese. In the end the sculpture did not please the king, and he sent it off to the back of the park
NB! · Monarchies · Museums · People · Saint Petersburg
Twelve lathes of Peter the Great in the Hermitage, one in Peter's Winter Palace
Peter the Great's lathe in Peter's Winter Palace. In all, the Hermitage has preserved 12 lathes from the workshop of Peter the Great; he used all of them, depending on the task and the material that needed working, wood or bone.
NB! · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
I Feel an Irresistible Urge for Treasure at the Fabergé Museum
Interviews · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Marina Loshak on the role of contemporary art collectors and the fate of private collections
Marina Loshak said many interesting things in a recent interview. But as someone who has been inseparably bound up with museums for almost ten years, and who has been collecting art for about as long, and a rather original, non-standard collection at that, I found the following passage especially
Art · Museums · Heritage · People
The artist Lotte, who emigrated to Sweden, and her painting “Evening over Potsdam”
Lotte Laserstein painted "Evening over Potsdam" in 1930, in response to the Nazi Party winning 18% of the vote at the elections. When these people came to power, Lotte, the first woman admitted to the Berlin Academy of Arts and a graduate with distinction, was persecuted as a
Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
Jewish Museum opens first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years
The Jewish Museum, housed in the Constructivist building of the Bakhmetevsky Garage, has opened the first monographic exhibition of Lyubov Popova in 35 years, "Lyuba, Lyubochka. Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova. 1889–1924". The exhibition presents more than 280 works, many of them shown for the first time. It offers