Google celebrates the centenary of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts with a delicate Doodle The impressive building of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Volkhonka St., across the road from the restored...
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910) The cross-cultural year between Italy and Russia, celebrated in 2011, is quickly picking up the pace with the several exhibitions of outstanding Ital...
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire Toujours À Madame Faure-Favier Toujours Nous irons plus loin sans avancer jamais Et de planète en planète De nébuleuse en nébuleuse Le don Juan des mil...
Pablo Picasso I‘ve written previously that I preferred “goals” to “ambitions”. I think it was in 2007, and by 2010 my point of view has changed only slightly. I’ll ...
…I am thinking of one artist. Like him, I am not interested in goblins and airy castles. Certainly, there is certain beauty in all this, but I need real people. And it is them whom I want to wri...
I‘ve always been surrounded by books, as you know. Since I came to England, I have amassed a darn good collection, too, which was occasionally but generously enriched by my mother. As a result, ...
Pablo Picasso, A Girl with a Book Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the songs of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without tryin...
Pratically hours after I briefly talked about saving the planet with the help of Social Media at the monthly Social Media Cafe, the UK-wide campaign to cut down emissions by 10% by 2010 has set off an...
As I said in the previous post, I tend to dislike generic questions. With regards to this debate, as a lady in the audience pointed out, both we and speakers seemed to have confounded the verbs. Whils...
In Visiting London-6 I mentioned and already wrote about a few seminars that I attended at the LBF. One of these was on the subject of marketing a bookshop. Marketing Your Bookshop was presented by Pe...