Tag: Russia

  • Hermitage deputy director placed under house arrest

    Hermitage deputy director placed under house arrest

    Mikhail Novikov, the deputy director of Saint Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, has been put under house arrest after a Moscow court charged him with suspected fraud in connection with construction projects at the museum, Sophia Kishkovsky of the Art Newspaper reports. The case may be part of a larger scandal involving the embezzlement of roughly $2…

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  • Imagine Moscow at the Design Museum

    Imagine Moscow at the Design Museum

    Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Design Museum’s Imagine Moscow exhibition explores Moscow as it was imagined by a bold new generation of architects and designers in the 1920s and early 1930s.     Drawing on rarely seen material, Imagine Moscow presents an idealistic vision of the Soviet capital that was never realised. Large-scale architectural…

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  • Revolution: Russian Art opens at Royal Academy

    Revolution: Russian Art opens at Royal Academy

    One hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, this powerful exhibition explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through the lens of its groundbreaking art. Renowned artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall and Rodchenko were among those to live through the fateful events of 1917, which ended centuries of Tsarist rule and…

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  • This Week’s TOP FIVE Museums News

    This Week’s TOP FIVE Museums News

    1. A portrait of Tsar Nicholas II was discovered during the restoration of a full-size painting of the 1917 October Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin. READ MORE   2. An original exhibition featuring cat-themed artworks from a range of well-known international comics creators and illustrators, will be held at Porto’s Boémia Caffe. READ MORE   3.…

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  • Painting of last Russian Tsar found beneath portrait of Lenin

    Painting of last Russian Tsar found beneath portrait of Lenin

    A portrait of Tsar Nicholas II was discovered during the restoration of a full-size painting of the 1917 October Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin. The image was “hidden” for the last 90 years beneath water-soluble paint on the back of the canvas used by Soviet artist Vladislav Izmailovich for Lenin’s portrait. The discovery was made by…

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