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While Moscow plunges into the raging art scene, Saint Petersburg calmly opens the autumn social season. And in the history of Petersburg, as you know, the society dinner was always more than a mere taking of nourishment: it was a form of conversation, a platform for ideas and a place
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Bulgakov and Akhmatova were not friends. Having met in 1933 at the artist Nikolay Radlov's, they saw each other only a few times, when Akhmatova came to visit the Bulgakovs. By all appearances there were no more than seven meetings. Even so, in that short time Akhmatova did
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EKONIKA has produced a genuinely stylish stand with very handsome details; I at once had an immersive experience of wielding a silver hammer, but alas, this art object proved to be an integral part of the installation "Through the Looking-Glass of the Shoemaker's Craft", created
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The Cosmoscow contemporary art fair is under way in Moscow, and Sber is among its more conspicuous participants. The bank has presented two spaces: an open lounge and a private one for clients of Sber Private Banking. In the first space, pride of place goes to an installation by the
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The Most Golden Finds of the Cosmoscow 2025 Preview:. 📌 The ultramodern woodwork of Nestor Engelke from the Jessica gallery 📌 Editioned prints on metal by Piranesi 📌 Remarkable works by Anna Zholud 📌 Glass sculptures by Alexandra Patsamanyuk from Deep List 📌 Vilgeny Melnikov with blown iron at Fabula On the one hand, Cosmoscow
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Good Cosmoscow with Alexey Shulgin and Aristarkh Chernyshov. That is how I see it! Shift gallery
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I would like to share my impressions of Blazar. Praise first. - For the most part, where a stand has something genuinely good, everything else on it is good too. Among the stands that stood head and shoulders above the rest were Futuro, Smena, Shilo and the Commute association of galleries.
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At Alina Pinsky's gallery a solo exhibition of Evgeny Muzalevsky opened today, offering a fresh view of an artist who so often takes part in shows at Alina Pinsky gallery. I may write a report on the exhibition later, but today I want to share one interesting parallel
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Yesterday Sistema Gallery opened three exhibitions at once, to mark the gallery's third birthday. The project that impressed me most was Daria Pasechnik's "Posts from Nowhere", done in an enchanted, fairy-tale style. The artist explains that she is exploring the longing for visual
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