Archaeology · Art · Museums · Mores
The Venus in the Golden Bikini from the Naples National Archaeological Museum. She is not the only evidence that women in ancient Rome wore a costume of two separate parts: an upper bodice covering the breasts and a lower part covering the hips. It could serve as underwear or as
Archive · Architecture · Art · Museums
Carlo Scarpa's design for the 1953 exhibition of the Sicilian Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina entered the golden fund of exhibition architecture. Scarpa draped the rooms of the Palazzo Zanca in multicoloured cotton cloths, concealing walls, floors and every scrap of decoration, and leaving only niches for the
Art · Museums · Nature · Humour
Hundreds of frogs playing tennis and billiards, brawling in a tavern, fighting with rulers at school, performing acrobatic stunts and going about other ordinary human business: this is one of the most unusual museums in the world, the museum of frog taxidermy in the Croatian city of Split. The Hungarian
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Pop Culture
In my view, this 1967 ensemble of dress and coat by Tamara Feidel and Sulamif Zaslavskaya could well have been an exhibit at the Musée des arts décoratifs de Paris, but it is on show at the Museum of Moscow, at the exhibition «Dom modelei. Industriya obrazov» [House of Fashion.
Coming Up · Archive · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
The Russian Museum shows the third exhibition devoted to the Leporskaya archive in the Mikhailovsky Castle. The Leporskaya archive is one of the most significant collections relating to the post-revolutionary history of the Russian avant-garde, the circle of Kazimir Malevich and the work of the leading pupils of
Moscow · Museums · Pop Culture · Reportage
A large-scale exhibition, “Punk Culture. Korol i Shut”, has opened at Winzavod. The display fills two halls and is divided into two parts: the first is about the birth of punk culture in the world (including several curious exhibits brought from private collections in London), the second is about
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages
An exhibition of Mikhail Rozanov's photographs of modernist architecture has opened at the Shchusev Museum. The show by one of the most recognisable architectural photographers brings together images of the most emblematic modernist buildings from around the world. One of the characteristic features of Rozanov's work
The East · Art · Museums · Humour
The Bespectacled Goat. I hope you have someone to send it to. From the collection of the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad
Art · Monarchies · Museums · People
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, hunting with hounds. Louis-Auguste Brun, 1783. The painting is on display on the ground floor of Versailles. It is currently being shown at the exhibition of the Rothschild collection; last year it featured in the exhibition The King's Animals.
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Rome
The Prada Foundation in Milan has put on show a re-created copy of the 13-metre marble statue of the Emperor Constantine, dating from the 4th century, of which 20 fragments survive to this day, kept in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The head, right arm, right knee, right
Art · Books · Museums · Ethnography
"Ruslan and Lyudmila", Pushkin. This is what one of the oldest surviving knotted carpets in the world looks like: a Norwegian tapestry of the 12th century from Baldishol, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Coming Up · Museums · Science · Nature
The Children's Library No. 1 in the town of Vidnoye is hosting an exhibition, "The Wondrous World of Cones". From Tuesday to Sunday, visitors to the library can see more than 70 species, representing 4 families and 22 genera from North America, Europe, North Africa and