Thomas Kinkade, Venice. Back in December 2011, we gave my colleague (a Sag, like me) a calendar as a birthday present. It was a selection of paintings by the American artist Thomas Kinkade who unexpec...
Art Salon came to the Central House of the Artists in Moscow between 16 and 25 of March. I visited it with a friend of mine who kindly helped me to delve into contemporary Russian painting and sculptu...
It is almost strange to say this, but spring finally seems to be coming to Moscow. The winter has been hesitant to start, and then it did not want to end. Even now the snow is still on the ground, alt...
Samuel J. Peploe – The Pink Dress. A Study of a Burmese Girl I am reading a book by the famous Soviet writer and translator, Kornei Chukovsky. Among other things, he translated Walt Whitman into...
Although better known for his sensuous paintings, François Boucher shows a more serious side of his genius, when tackling religious themes in his paintings. Among several completed canvasses and a few...
Juxtaposing Isaac Levitan's painting and Vladimir Gilyarovsky's book, what can we learn about Moscow life in 1880s?...
William Blake, Newton An exhibition of watercolours and engravings by the English visionary artist and poet William Blake opens in Moscow on November 29. This is the first time his work will be presen...
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...
Marc Chagall, At the Easel (My LiFe, Orion Press, 1960) I’m currently reading “My Life” by Marc Chagall. It is in Russian, and I haven’t read it before. I love his paintings, b...
Caravaggio, The Entombment The exhibition of the famous Italian Baroque painter, Michelangelo di Caravaggio, opens at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow on November 26, 2011. The works on displ...