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Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations

I thought the Pushkin Museum's previous logo was a failure, but now they have replaced it with something even more abstract: just four columns, although the portico of the main building rests on six

And yet they could simply have admitted the mistake of 2024 and gone back to the old logo, perfectly recognisable, informative and successful

Museums · Heritage · Paris

The robbed Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre has reopened to the public

The robbed Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre has reopened to the public. But since the robbery the hall has stood empty. The museum's new director, Christophe Leribault, has decided that whatever survived the robbery must be hidden away in a high-security vault. Well, not quite

Museums · Heritage · Society

Because of the heat, a trade union threatens strike action in Venice's museums

An Italian national cross-sector trade union has declared an industrial dispute over the fact that working in Venice's museums has become dangerous. The apparent temperature outside reaches 40 degrees, while inside certain museums it has hovered around 30 for weeks on end. At the National Archaeological Museum,

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In the early 2000s Eduard Steinberg, a representative of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a nonconformist, one of those whose art turned away from the Soviet norm towards pure geometry and metaphysics, built a house in Tarusa, which he made his

In the early 2000s Eduard Steinberg, a representative of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a nonconformist, one of those whose art turned away from the Soviet norm towards pure geometry and metaphysics, built a house in Tarusa, which he made his working studio, where he painted and

Archaeology · Museums · Heritage · New York · Society

Art-crime specialist Erin Thompson explains why dozens of American museums still hold antiquities bought from Ali Aboutaam, the Geneva dealer convicted of trafficking in cultural property

Art-crime specialist Erin Thompson has explained why dozens of American museums still hold antiquities bought from Ali Aboutaam, the Geneva dealer convicted of trafficking in cultural property. Aboutaam built a scheme of shell companies and forged provenances: a restorer scrubbed freshly excavated objects with a toothbrush in an old

Art · Museums · Observations

And they lived happily ever after!

And they lived happily ever after! A very charming piece of ceramics by Alice Mackler, 2014. Mackler is a most interesting artist who began to win recognition as a sculptor only after the age of eighty, when a solo exhibition of her work was held in New York in 2013.

Archaeology · The East · Museums · Heritage · New York · People

An interesting man, to be sure, the Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos, who since 2003, when he witnessed the mass looting in Baghdad with his own eyes, has devoted himself to fighting the trade in stolen antiquities

An interesting man, to be sure, the Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Bogdanos, who since 2003, when he witnessed the mass looting in Baghdad with his own eyes, has devoted himself to fighting the trade in stolen antiquities. The unit of the New York police that he heads has seized thousands of

Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage

Ground collapse in the courtyard of the Scriabin Museum

I hope it can all be put right without any serious consequences

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"Beyond the Hundred-and-First Kilometre" Opens in Tarusa

An exhibition called "Beyond the Hundred-and-First Kilometre. Nonconformists in Tarusa" has opened in Tarusa, marking the 65th anniversary of the "first free exhibition" of unofficial artists, held here in 1961 in the premises of the town club. That was a year before the Manege

Art · London · Museums

Souvenirs Without Nostalgia

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has given three works by the artist to the Artist Rooms collection, which is jointly managed by the London-based Tate group and National Galleries Scotland. Rauschenberg is known above all for his «Combines» of the post-war years, but all three donated works belong to

Aristocracy · Books · London · Museums · Observations · Society

Chatsworth, one of Britain's best-known country houses and seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, the Cavendish family, since 1549, launches a scheme of free admission through libraries

The mechanics of the project are as follows: a library reader in Derbyshire borrows a "community card" just as he would borrow a book, for a week, free of charge. The card gives entry to the house, the garden, the farm and the playground for a group of

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At the end of September the Vatican Apostolic Library will open AQVA, an exhibition from its new cycle "Catastrophe and Miracle"

At the end of September the Vatican Apostolic Library will open AQVA, an exhibition from its new cycle "Catastrophe and Miracle". The cycle is based on Gaetano Volpi's treatise "On the Passion for Books" of 1756, which lists five threats to the book: water,