NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · New York
Bronze ceremonial helmet of a high-ranking warrior, 1500-1100 BC
Bronze ceremonial helmet of a high-ranking warrior, 1500-1100 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · New York
Bronze ceremonial helmet of a high-ranking warrior, 1500-1100 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
A remarkable exhibition of Russian provincial portraiture of the 18th and 19th centuries, "Zertsalo" ("The Mirror"), is on at the Manege in Saint Petersburg. Although most of the artists and most of the faces portrayed remain unknown, the curators have managed, within these terem chambers, to
NB! · Art · Museums
Bowl of translucent dark blue and milk-white mosaic glass, 1st century BC. Collection of the Getty Museum
NB! · Coming Up · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Rome
Ancient sculptures from the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica have gone on display at Rome's Fiumicino Airport. A capital idea for a museum partnership!
Architecture · Art · Museums
A window grille at Peggy Guggenheim's house in Venice, where her collection of art has been on public view since 1951, including Italian Futurists and American modernists in the genres of Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, as well as sculptures. In addition, the masterpieces of the Hannelore and
Art · Moscow · Museums
The Battle of Dobrynya Nikitich with the Seven-Headed Zmey Gorynych. Viktor Vasnetsov, 1918. The painting is in the Vasnetsov House Museum in Moscow.
NB! · Art · Books · Museums
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums
Art · Monarchies · Museums · Paris · Saint Petersburg
The Cossacks of the Ataman Regiment. The painting "The Return to Camp at Krasnoye Selo of the Cossacks of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment" was painted by Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille in 1889 on commission from the Tsarevich Nicholas. It adorns the corner drawing room of the Alexander
Art · Moscow · Museums · Reportage
Gorlova, head of the Department of Newest Trends at the State Tretyakov Gallery, complains of a lack of funding for exhibition activity. “For the most part, it is sponsors' money,” she says. “Funding for contemporary art exhibitions, as we know, is harder still to obtain. Besides, there have been