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We have already said a great deal about Blazar, but I cannot help returning once more to the design section that so appealed to me, and dwelling on one of its brightest stands: the stand of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, designed by the architect Misha Maslo

Art · Observations · Society · Reportage · Ethnography

We have already said a great deal about Blazar, but I cannot help returning once more to the design section that so appealed to me, and dwelling on one of its brightest stands: the stand of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, designed by the architect Misha Maslo

We have already said a great deal about Blazar, but I cannot help returning once more to the design section that so appealed to me, and dwelling on one of its brightest stands: the stand of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, designed by the architect Misha Maslov, which the fair named

By Alexandr Radayev
Today at the Moscow Variety Theatre the first chords sounded of one of the most anticipated premieres of this autumn: a press conference was held there to present the musical “Waltz-Boston”

Coming Up · Moscow · Pop Culture · Reportage

Today at the Moscow Variety Theatre the first chords sounded of one of the most anticipated premieres of this autumn: a press conference was held there to present the musical “Waltz-Boston”

Today at the Moscow Variety Theatre the first chords sounded of one of the most anticipated premieres of this autumn: a press conference was held there to present the musical “Waltz-Boston”. There was as yet no orchestra and no full glare of the footlights, but there were sketches of

By Alexandr Radayev
Only in Moscow could this happen: you stroll along a boulevard of an evening and find yourself at an open meeting with a writer

Architecture · Books · Moscow · Observations · Reportage

Only in Moscow could this happen: you stroll along a boulevard of an evening and find yourself at an open meeting with a writer

Only in Moscow could this happen: you stroll along a boulevard of an evening and find yourself at an open meeting with a writer. Yesterday that is precisely what befell me. Passing the monument to Sholokhov, I heard Alexandr Tsypkin say something like "what if the cultural capital is

By Alexandr Radayev
You asked for more architecture and interiors, so I went to the newest and most fashionable hotel in Rome: Palazzo Talìa, opened in 2024, whose decoration was the work of Studio Luca Guadagnino, of that very same…

Architecture · Art · Reportage · Rome

You asked for more architecture and interiors, so I went to the newest and most fashionable hotel in Rome: Palazzo Talìa, opened in 2024, whose decoration was the work of Studio Luca Guadagnino, of that very same…

Guadagnino has indeed proved a remarkable decorator. The hotel and its bar occupy a former school built in the 16th century, and nearly everything you see in the interior was made to order for this project. The carpet patterns were designed by the Hermès illustrator Nigel Peake, ceramicists from Sicily

By Alexandr Radayev
Trying ajoblanco, the Spanish cold soup of raw almonds, in the Madrid restaurant of Agustín Lardy, named after a Spanish painter of the nineteenth century

Madrid · Observations · Mores · Reportage

Trying ajoblanco, the Spanish cold soup of raw almonds, in the Madrid restaurant of Agustín Lardy, named after a Spanish painter of the nineteenth century

Almond soup is, in essence, the same thing as satsivi. At the bottom of the plate sit a little fish and a little salad, and on top goes the almond purée with a faint floral aftertaste. Traditionally, though, this soup is made from almonds, stale bread, garlic, oil, vinegar and

By Alexandr Radayev
The mood at the fair is brisk, the young are pondering love, loneliness, existential questions, feeling nostalgic for the nineties, the noughties and, apparently, the 2010s, seeking new forms, expressing themselves in different media, using unusual techni

Art · Observations · Reportage

The mood at the fair is brisk, the young are pondering love, loneliness, existential questions, feeling nostalgic for the nineties, the noughties and, apparently, the 2010s, seeking new forms, expressing themselves in different media, using unusual techni

The mood at the fair is brisk, the young are pondering love, loneliness, existential questions, feeling nostalgic for the nineties, the noughties and, apparently, the 2010s, seeking new forms, expressing themselves in different media, using unusual techniques such as the metal lace of Artem Lyapin. Embroidery and other kinds of

By Alexandr Radayev
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