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One might say that the Moscow art season truly began yesterday: the Cosmoscow fair opened, and there will be much talk of it in the days ahead. I was fortunate enough to survey the year's achievements in contemporary art and the leading galleries during the Beluga morning mediation,
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At Lamoda's "Pygmalion's Fitting Room", one of the strangest stands at Cosmoscow, created by Valeria Titova and Daria Tishkova, they recall the story told by Ovid of the Cypriot sculptor who carved a figure from ivory and fell in love with it. People usually
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Where did Rodchenko and Stepanova live in Moscow? E. L.: At first they made do in other people's flats, in tiny rooms. They lived in a house belonging to the family of Vasily Kandinsky, at 8 Dolgy Lane (now Burdenko Street), in flat 25, while Kandinsky spent almost
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Shift Gallery has opened a new space at 5c1 Petrovsky Boulevard. In a season when the news pours out nothing but closures, it is pleasant to see that the young and bold are, for a change, opening things and reopening them. The first exhibition is called "Under Observation"
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Emir Kusturica has been spotted at SPIEF. As the saying goes, if nobody catches cold, then everything will most certainly come to pass.
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Yesterday the Anton Chekhov Museum-Reserve hosted the opening of the "Melikhovo Spring" theatre festival. It will run for 10 days, with companies from 6 countries presenting more than 20 productions by Chekhov and about Chekhov on the festival's stages. The festival's open-air
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The 61st Venice Biennale is due to open on 9 May, this time wreathed in scandal, protest and cancellation. Allow me to recall a brief chronology of unprecedented contradictions and squabbles. 💀In February 2026 the Biennale's curator, Koyo Kouoh, dies at the age of 57, without having brought
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Yesterday King Charles III and Camilla dropped in at Christie's in New York. Not for the sale, it must be said, but for a gala dinner in aid of the King's Trust, which turns 50 this year. At the preview of lots for the forthcoming sales,
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Last night the Great Hall of the Conservatoire was sold out. The Nizhny Novgorod Opera and Ballet Theatre was marking its 90th anniversary, and did so on the country's foremost academic stage. The programme: Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Leonid Desyatnikov's Opera in a new