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automatic translateA painting by Alexey Zimin is up for auction with a starting price of 4.8 billion rubles.
19.11.2025 A precedent has been set on a Russian bankruptcy auction site. Lot number 7266229, a painting by contemporary artist Alexey Zimin, is being offered for sale with a starting bid of 4.803 billion rubles. Market experts note that this amount is a record for such auctions in the domestic market.
Moscow conceptualist classic Erik Bulatov has passed away.
12.11.2025 On November 9, 2025, the distinguished Soviet and Russian artist Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov died in a Paris hospital. He was 92 years old. The cause of death was emphysema, from which he suffered in the last year of his life.
Russian art market: dynamics by the end of 2024
14.02.2025 The Russian art market has undergone profound changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union, evolving from a state-controlled cultural apparatus into a complex ecosystem shaped by globalization, digital innovation, and a changing political economy.
Woman Who Matters 2024 Awards Ceremony
15.12.2024 On December 12, the Woman Who Matters 2024 award ceremony took place. The award recognizes women’s contribution to the development of society, culture, business and the social environment.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen in Russia – exhibition in the Hermitage
06.06.2024 On May 31, 2024, the opening of the exhibition “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen in Russia” took place in the Small HermitageThe exhibition combines episodes from the adventures of the famous literary character with the biography of a real person - Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Munchausen (1720-1797), whose life was closely connected with Russia.
The rights of authors of works of art: how to use them and how to protect them - new recordings of seminar broadcasts
07.04.2024 The Russian Academy of Arts continues the series of training seminars “The rights of authors of works of art: how to use them and how to protect them,” conducted by Konstantin Vladimirovich Markov
Renewal of the permanent exhibition in the Main Building of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin
18.03.2024 State Museum of Fine Arts named afterA.S. Pushkin began a gradual renovation of the permanent exhibition of art by old masters, including paintings by Italian and French artists. The exhibition of Spanish art will be presented after the completion of the exhibition “From Gothic to Goya” from the State Hermitage.
Study of Antiveduto Gramatika’s painting "Christ and the Sinner" from the collection of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve
16.03.2024 The State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin begins to study a work from the collection of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve “Christ and the Sinner,” whose authorship is attributed to Antiveduto Gramatica (1570/71–1626).
"Adoration of the Magi" by Otto van Ven - a 17th-century painting added to the collection of the Pushkin Museum
20.02.2024 A painting by one of the greatest Flemish masters of the 17th century joined the collection of the Pushkin Museum. A. S.
President of the Russian Academy of Arts Z.K.Tsereteli took part in the opening of the II International Children’s Cultural Forum in Moscow
17.08.2023 From August 10 to 12, 2023, the II International Children’s Cultural Forum, organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, is being held in the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
An exhibition "The Romance of the Rose" has opened in St. Petersburg, where contemporary artists rethink legends from the history of libraries
30.03.2023 On March 25, in the building of the future library and cultural center "NOTA", the exhibition "Romance of the Rose" opened - a large art project dedicated to the history of libraries and their future.
In Moscow, the search for places of culture and recreation, as well as the cost of visiting them, has increased by one and a half times
20.08.2022 The 2GIS geoservice and the SberIndex laboratory recorded an increase in the interest of Russians in places of culture and recreation this summerAccording to 2GIS, in June and July 2022, search requests for museums, parks, art galleries and exhibitions on the maps of major Russian cities increased by 38% compared to June-July 2021.
100 years since the birth of Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova
21.03.2022 Pushkin Museum imA. S. Pushkin celebrates 100 years since the birth of I.A. Antonova. On Sunday, March 20, 2022, in the center of Moscow, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where Irina Aleksandrovna lived, and an updated exposition of the Director’s Office hall was opened in the Pushkin Museum and a series of concerts dedicated to the memory of I.A.
Charity Antique Bazaar at the Rarita Gallery
28.12.2021 The mood of a sincere holiday awaits you at the New Year’s bazaar in the center of Moscow! Soviet New Year’s toys, old books, porcelain, postcards, posters, prints, badges, jewelry - all this can be measured, touched, bought!
Pushkinsky, Tretyakov Gallery, Garage and GES-2 merged into the "Museum Four"
16.09.2021 The State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the GES-2 House of Culture have merged into the Museum Quartet (or M4).