Leonardo's self-portrait is on display at Turin until January 2012, along with modern artists' takes on his work, including Duchamp and Warhol....
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...
Baltasar del Alcazar Three things have chained my heart in love That equally do please: The fair Inez, a well-smoked ham, And aubergines in cheese. Friends, this Inez of whom I speak Has such a hold o...
Miroslav Valek, illustration to The Blizzard Usually I can see the Moscow State University’s main building from my window – but now it is barely seen through the most beautiful blizzard. T...
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...
Roman Polanski’s 1962 short Ssaki is a Surrealist tale of co-operation and compassion. The two characters (Henryk Kluba and Michal Zolnierkiewicz) wander across the snowy wonderland. We don̵...
The trend of obsession with celebrities limbs and other body parts continues this year with the sale of a tooth that belonged to John Lennon. The lovely town of Stockport on the border of Greater Manc...
I have just come across the audio of Luciano Pavarotti and Patty Pravo singing Pazza Idea (Crazy Idea), and there is a video of a 2001 performance. Not sure I am fully keen on it, if only because Pava...
Coming to a new city, you (I) somehow manage to notice just about anything, most of which a lot of citizens would ignore. And even though a lot of you, dear readers, sit abroad and don’t read in...
My visit to Yekaterinburg was partly for work, and one of my tasks was to explore the public gardens in the city. Granted there were not too many of them, I still managed to identify a few places wher...