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Garage Museum will show its own collection in open storage for the first time this autumn

For the first time in its entire history, the Garage Museum will acquire a collection of its own and a permanent display; more precisely, the collection will be shown as open storage in the museum's main building, the Four Seasons pavilion. The first works acquired by the museum

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The Tuscan town of Empoli is famous not only for its football club, but also for a quattrocento sculpture of Saint Sebastian by the Florentine Antonio Rossellino, regarded as one of the benchmark depictions of the nude male body of the fifteenth century

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The exhibition “Square and Space” opens at GES-2, with works from Malevich to the Kabakovs

The "Square and Space" exhibition, curated by Zelfira Tregulova and Francesco Bonami, has opened at GES-2. Judging by the sheer number of first-rank names gathered for it, this is an event of international standing. According to the curators' conception, in the first quarter of the

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Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov-Hohenzollern, one of the claimants to the headship of the Russian Imperial House, at the opening of the exhibition “The Magazine of the Beautiful Life” at the Museum of Russian Impressionism

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AZ/ART Centre of Contemporary Art opens in Moscow with the exhibition “Non-Obvious Intersections”

Another serious cultural institution has appeared on the map of Moscow: the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art. The centre is housed in a historic seventeenth-century building on Maroseika. Its opening is marked by an exhibition, a joint project with the Foundation of the composer Nikolai Karetnikov, entitled "

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In the 16th to 18th Centuries Rome Was One of the Most Depicted Cities in the World

In the 16th to 18th centuries Rome was one of the most depicted cities in the world. Dozens of vedutisti from many countries sought to capture its appearance. This allows us today to trace every stage of the city's transformation and its different faces: from the melancholy landscapes

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Mask of a River God from a Roman Sarcophagus of the Third Century

From the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibition "Three Times of Rome. Antiquity. Renaissance. Baroque"

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Five Saint Petersburg exhibitions, including Olga Rozanova at the Marble Palace

If you are weary of Moscow's sultry weather, you need the cool Baltic air. But you surely do not know that in Saint Petersburg, too, nobody is having an easier time of it, and one may well have to languish from the heat still more. I hope that

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The chief exhibit, perhaps, of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, like much in Turkey, does not correspond to its name in the least

The chief exhibit, perhaps, of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, like much in Turkey, does not correspond to its name in the least. In truth, it is connected with Alexander only by a coincidence of dating and by the fact that the king appears in one

Oil painting of a young man holding a violin, seated on a wooden chair at a garden table against green foliage, in a museum frame.

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Portrait of the painter Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann by Arthur Siebelist, 1900

Portrait of Pavel Durov at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. A work by the German Impressionist painter Arthur Siebelist, 1900

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Charlotte Rampling in 1973, photographed by Helmut Newton in front of Lucas Cranach the Elder's diptych "Adam and Eve" of 1528 in the Uffizi Gallery

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Gustav Klimt's painting "Medicine", 1901

The painting was destroyed by the Germans in 1945; this reconstruction was made in 2021 by the Leopold Museum in Vienna.