In the fall of 2013, the ASG Large Collection of Fine Arts was replenished with a canvas depicting the martyrdom of St. Cecilia. Saint Cecilia, Cicilia or Cecilia of Rome (200 - 230) was a virgin martyr who lived in the 3rd century. Born into a noble Roman family. The parents decided to marry their daughter to the noble pagan Valerian, but Cecilia managed to convert the groom to Christianity in a short time.

heart takes off and falls back at cosmic speed it's so loud (but at the same time it's nice), when I write to you that I like you. you're silent for a long time and the passage of time freezes, everything in me freezes. sucks in the pit of the stomach frost creeps across the skin sick of fear there is cotton wool in the head. you say: I'm married.

Anastasia Pyari’s story, written as part of Lili Kalaus’ course “Writing: A Feminist Postcolonial Novel” (Almaty), is reminiscent of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.” In both cases we see an educated heroine, pushed, as usually happens in patriarchy, into a low-paid sphere, even to the point of radical downshifting: sixty-year-old Yanina Dusheiko was an engineer, but in old age she is forced to teach English in the village; Twenty-five-year-old

Jasper Johns, “Untitled”, 1992-1994 •••• If Jasper Johns is a philosopher-king of modern art, he is one in seclusion — an archetype of a statesman who, upon retirement, leaves for the countryside, tends to the garden and works the plow. Nauman is similar, and it’s telling that the two are almost of the same generation. •••• All art that is heavy with references makes the viewer ask themselves what is it exactly they need to know before they approach it.

I'm looking at the computer monitor tasks, mail, stickers, do this, do that, meeting calendar, deadlines, calls, chats this day is a fucking day and only in the evening, when the work pandemonium ends when colleagues say see you tomorrow when the monitor goes dark when it's too late when will the last inhabitant of this huge house fall asleep? when I sit quietly in the kitchenette I'll breathe out this hectic day I'll take an iPhone I'll open the photos your recently deceased dog And will cry

Dasha Kuznetsova, Iron, 2021. Steel. Exhibition “Whale”, Fragment Gallery, 2021, Moscow. Ivan Yarygin: In 2017, you, as part of a group of artists who participated in the self-organization of the “Red” Center, signed the “Manifesto of Russian Chthonism” .

18+ We are publishing the debut poetry collection of Vita Zelenskaya with illustrations by Daria Voruyubivaeva. Vita Zelenskaya is an anthropologist, curator, and artist. Born in Vinnitsa (Ukraine). illustrations by @vorujubivaeva Exhaustive movement 1.

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