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On my way to dinner I visited two very charming exhibitions. No doormen, everyone in a good mood, standing about, delighted, enjoying the art
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Syugir Buluktayev's horse at the opening at Sistema gallery, all three of whose eyes have popped out of their sockets at the art on view. To make sense of the sheer quantity of art events now taking place, one requires the serenity of a blissful ladybird
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In the design section at Blazar I was glad to see the work of my friends: the insanely cool shelving unit from Bureau Sknypl and the laconic daybed from Bureau Saga. It is pleasant to know that our artists, designers and architects produce such a high-quality, competitive product. A
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😍😍😍😍 Italian princesses of the House of Savoy and the House of the Two Sicilies at the name-day celebration of the great-grandchildren of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy in Turin. From left to right: Vittoria of Savoy, Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Luisa of Savoy and Chiara of Bourbon-
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Can you name an artist who never painted flowers? As the exhibition Something about flowers at the Alina Pinsky Gallery has shown, even in František Kupka, if one is so inclined, a vase of flowers can be found. The exhibition, which is much to my liking, tells, as it were,
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Works by Alexandra Exter, one of the key women artists of Russian Constructivism, at the exhibition "Friends. For the Anniversary of Varvara Stepanova", which opened yesterday in the Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
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In what do earthworms surpass the most advanced neural networks? Is humanity ready for long space journeys? What is the difference between the male and the female brain? This rather unexpected set of questions was discussed yesterday, under the attentive moderation of Kira Altman, at the first event of the
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A highly representative, almost textbook selection of artists who work with textiles in every conceivable form, as the exhibition's curator Nina Gomiashvili writes in her foreword, took as its point of departure Hans Christian Andersen's nettle coats of mail, but has grown into a museum-grade
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Another serious cultural institution has appeared on the map of Moscow: the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art. The centre is housed in a historic seventeenth-century building on Maroseika. Its opening is marked by an exhibition, a joint project with the Foundation of the composer Nikolai Karetnikov, entitled "
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"The Marriage of Figaro" on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. Interesting set design, don't you think? Was the designer inspired by anyone, do you suppose?