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16.5.25: Anniversary of the birth of Tamara Łempicka (16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980) She was a Polish painter active in the 1920s & 1930s, who spent her working life in France & USA She is best known for her Art-Deco portraits of aristocrats & the wealthy

'Men in a Cafè.' (1928) Born in Bristol, England in 1892, in the 1920s Paule Vezelay became increasingly involved with the School of Paris and met many of the leading artists of the day including Picasso, Matisse and Kandinsky.

Jeanne #Mammen (1890-1976) Fischfang (Gold Fish), 1925.

Here's another must-read book nominated for the Pushkin House Book Prize: Benjamin Nathans' illuminating and captivating history of the dissident movement(s) in the Soviet Union. themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/18/ben…

Thanks Olena Rudenko for the incredible video from our exhibition “Village to Modern” in Ukrainian Museum in New York city, 222 East 6th Street ❤️ I’m so proud to be honest that we did this job. I hope it brings you joy and inspiration to learn more about Ukrainian art.

Alexander Tovborg, Madonna of the Mystery, 2022.

📷 Peintre de Montmartre. v.1940. Paris

More Pushkin House Book Prize 2025 events just announced! 📍Polina Barskova and Susan Larsen, on the cultural life of besieged Leningrad. 📍Elena Kostyuchenko and Yulia Mineeva, on the importance of social journalism in our increasingly unstable world. 🎟️pushkinhouse.org/projects/book-…

Life Painting for Myself David Hockney (b.1937) This painting will be on display in the Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert in London in their exhibition exploring David Hockney's early work. The exhibition opens tomorrow. © David Hockney. Image credit: Ferens Art Gallery

Such brilliant news! Congratulations all round!!!

Gabrielle Münter's picture shows Kandinsky at the kitchen table in the house they shared at Ainmillerstrasse 36 in Munich's Schwabing district in around 1910. The figure with Kandinsky is the artist Erma Bossi, a frequent house guest.

'Green Fields at Sunset.' Joan Eardley rarely strikes a false note. Although a flair for pictorial construction is evident even in the freest of her sketches, these are deeply felt personal responses, momentary sensations, and what she called 'the notion of landscape inside me.'

Oh how wonderful! #MariaStepanova I wish I could attend. Might it be recorded & made available?

Retour sur le parcours de cette collectionneuse de génie. ➡️ l.beauxarts.com/ZZk

This morning, Russian security services conducted coordinated raids on families of Pussy Riot members Maria Alekhina, Olga Borisova, Alina Petrova and Taso Pletner. The early morning raids against relatives is a common practice of intimidation employed by the authorities 1/5

Here's a fascinating Q&A with Viv Groskop about her book "One Ukrainian Summer" and that extraordinary period of the 1990s in what was the Soviet Union. themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/22/aut…

🎙️ Episode 1 of the Russia Underground podcast is an introduction to what it means to be "underground" in modern Russia, and the ways anti-war Russians can — and do — express their opposition. Listen here: themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/21/lif…

John Lavery's picture of a figure walking through a woodland glade was painted in 1884 at Grez-sur-Loing, a quiet village, five miles south of Fontainbleau; it is a naturalistic scene influenced by the broad brushwork of the French pastoralist Jules Bastien-Lepage.

Lotte B Prechner, Jazz Dancer, 1928-29.

Josephine Baker served as a spy for the French Resistance during WW2. She used her performances to collect intelligence, smuggled messages using invisible ink, and aided refugees at her château. She received the Croix de Guerre and Légion d’honneur for her efforts.