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...
VIP anytime pass for 2 persons Moscow traffic has positively collapsed this week, and for a godly reason: the sash of Our Lady was brought to Russia from the Mount of Athos in Greece. This is an unpre...
RecipeMama In a tiny kitchen in our flat my mother and I have just lost a small pancake, or a pikelet. My mother was turning over the pikelets in the frying pan when this little fellow slipped off a s...
Yekaterinburg: Komsomol and Cathedral One of my vivid recollections of the visit to Yekaterinburg is the fact that many of its streets have not been renamed. As a result, the Cathedral on the Blood on...
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...
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...
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...