Faith · Art · Madrid · Museums · Observations · Nature
My grandmother loved "Tsitron" sweets, which had a bright lemon flavour and a pretty wrapper with lemons on it. But it never occurred to me that the citron is a fruit in its own right; I took it for just another name for the lemon. It was thanks
The East · Art · Museums · Observations
It must be admitted that the display at the museum is rather peculiar: on the neighbouring wall, a couple of metres from Stozharov, hangs Dürer's rhinoceros, and a little further on, Bill Viola.
The East · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Mores
The tortoise trainer. Strange as it may seem, such a post really did exist at the court of the Ottoman Sultan. Tortoises are trained by sound, so the trainer's instruments are musical: in this case a pipe and a drum, while nowadays a little bell is used. The
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Art · Moscow · Museums · Science
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is beginning a study of "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery", a work from the collection of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve attributed to Antiveduto Gramatica (1570/71–1626). The painting will be analysed by a team of specialists from
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Winner of the fifth category of The Art Newspaper Russia XII Awards, Museum of the Year: PERMM in the city of Perm, for energy, resilience and the knack of staying in dialogue with the public and the city. The award is presented by Roman Zhukarin, Director of the Nizhny Novgorod
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The winner of the fourth category of the The Art Newspaper Russia XII awards, Exhibition of the Year, is “First Position. Russian Ballet” at the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”, Saint Petersburg. The prize is presented by Alisa Prudnikova, director of VAC
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages
Winners of the third category of The Art Newspaper Russia Prize XII, Personal Contribution: Sofia and Roman Trotsenko, founders of the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art. The prize is presented by Natalia Opaleva, Director of the AZ Museum
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society Pages
The ceremony of the annual, as it turns out already twelfth, The Art Newspaper Russia Awards at the Pushkin Theatre. We await a performance created jointly with artificial intelligence: it is reported that it took part in the staging on an equal footing with human beings. On an equal footing
Monarchies · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The two-seater carriage of Alexander II, in which the Emperor was travelling at the time of the attempt on his life on 1 (13) March 1881. In the course of this attempt Alexander II was wounded and died. As can be seen, the bomb severely damaged the body of
Faith · Art · Museums · Mores · Ethnography
The week before Great Lent is maslenitsa with us, and carnival in Europe. The word carnival derives from the Italian carne, meat + vale, farewell, which accords with the Christian meaning of the festival preceding Great Lent. True, there is another etymology of the word carnival: some trace it to the
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Humour
- Come and get your Chardzhou melons! Sweet as honey, smooth as a maiden! Step up, snap them up! As you see, the first to swoop down was the Italian master of still life Antonio Tibaldi (1635-1675). The painting is in the display «Flowers, Fruits and Musical Instruments in Italian