Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Tretyakov Gallery's Engineering Building has closed a large and very rich exhibition of Tatyana Mavrina (1900-1996), a pupil of Falk, better known to the public for her numerous illustrations, above all of Pushkin and of Russian fairy tales. But besides illustrations, Mavrina, who studied at Vkhutemas,
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The house in which Napoleon was born on 15 August 1769. Ajaccio, Corsica
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
A cosy niche exhibition of eighteenth-century graphic art, steeped in the spirit of the Enlightenment, is on at Tsaritsyno. Many of the works are being shown for the first time. The graphic art of the period is an interesting thing, and not the most obvious one to collect: firstly,
Art · Museums · Paris · People
The Fondation Pierre Gianadda in Martigny, Switzerland, is currently staging a retrospective of the undeservedly neglected Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte. At the very least, he may be remembered for his painting "The Floor Scrapers", with its men planing a parquet floor while sitting on the floor of a large
Archaeology · Museums · Observations · Science
nplus1 reports that Italian archaeologists have discovered in the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence six previously unrecorded cardboard boxes and wooden crates containing more than 150 bone fragments, including the remains of two infants. It turned out that they had been excavated as long ago as the
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It is a hundred years since our country was blessed with electricity, GOELRO-style. The exhibition is about just that. Everyone to the Museum of Moscow
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The new Tretyakov Gallery building. I trust history will not remember it
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Art · Museums · Observations · Humour
A tea service for parents. A teapot inscribed "Tulip: pride and ingratitude" and a matching cup inscribed "Jasmine: chastity", in the display case of Russian porcelain at the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts. Might I trouble you to top up my chastity with a little boiling
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Shall we go to a museum? One of the oldest museum collections in Russia, dating from the time of Peter the Great, is, incidentally, the collection of minerals, which in 1716 became the core of the Mineral Cabinet of the Kunstkamera and in 1836 was formally transformed into a separate
Archive · Books · Museums · Science · People · Saint Petersburg
The Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences announces the long-awaited acquisition of Vladimir Nabokov's Swiss archive, after three years of preparatory work and colossal logistics. The archive amounts to as many as 300 boxes of documents, manuscripts and texts. To be
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Guidoccio di Giovanni Cozzarelli (1450-1517). The Baptism of Christ. John the Baptist sports an epic hair shirt. Now on show at the Pushkin Museum, at the exhibition of proto-Renaissance masterpieces. The canvas comes from the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. “Siena at the Dawn