(Jesus is the new black) (Jesus is the new black, ow!) I grew up in New York City Since I was born on Broadway, baby Moved downtown when I was just nineteen To start a new life on the New York scene There's no way I could be stopped Was taken my best shot I had a better...
On 15 September 1974, the artists staged a show of paintings in a vacant lot in Moscow’s Belyayevo Forest. The authorities sicked police on the participants and attendees and destroyed the show with bulldozers. This crackdown on artistic expression triggered an international uproar, and the ...
• Portrait of Artist's Wife (1914) State Russian Museum. R Charles Radoff (1894–1986) Landscape painter, neo-impressionist • Mother Russia, 1968 Ilya Repin (1844–1930) History painter, realist, portraitist (see also: The Wanderers: Russian Landscape Paintings) • Barge Haulers on the...
However, before he left Russia, he managed to create one of his most significant paintings, the portrait of a young Varya Adoratskaya, which is often compared to Serov's ‘Girl with Peaches’. These days, Fechin is among the most expensive Russian artists: in 2010, his canvas was sold f...
Russians are fans of proverbs and masterfully juggle them in different situations. A foreigner who wants to know Russian as a native and to understand Russians and their “mysterious soul”, needs to know at least the basic proverbs. So, we’ll help you
Review: The spiritual culture of Russia is reflected in the beauty of its churches and monasteries, paintings and frescoes that adorn them and - above all - in the sacred music that is sung in them. This program celebrates the history of Christmas in Russia and features 15 beautiful holiday ...
Lenin gave other speeches from the balcony during the three months more that the Bolsheviks used the mansion. Photographs show him speaking from it, and it appears in Socialist Realist paintings. A plaque notes the balcony’s revolutionary role, but both plaque and subject are above eye level,...
Yelena Andreyevna is finally home, but she faces a court hearing on administrative charges and a battle to get back her paintings. Photo courtesy of Varya Mikhailova. Translated by the Russian Reader hecksinductionhour art, petrograd, protest, regime, solidarity, zeitgeist 1 Comment April 27, 20...
The dark irony is that Zavyalov and his family, themselves Russian émigrés, rent an apartment made of one quarter of what used to be a mansion of the wealthiest nineteenth-century resident of Winterthur, who donated paintings, mostly by German and Swiss Romantics, to the local Museum of Fin...