Monthly Archives: October 2011

As a young architecture student, Jorge Ayala always displayed a strong passion for fashion. After he graduated and went on to become the Director of the AA Visiting School in Paris  and the founder of the [Ay]A Studio , his … Continue reading →

Among the various documents displayed at the State Museum of Vladimir Mayakovsky in Moscow there are also a series of art projects and works such as the "Black Square" by Russian painter and art theoretician Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, the pioneer … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s post I looked at collages moving from the work of a young Russian artist. Let’s continue the thread today by exploring the State Museum of Vladimir Mayakovsky, a space filled with very different collages from the ones we … Continue reading →

There is a little bit of everything on the walls of young Russian artist Kolya Saprykin, from pieces of newspapers, stickers and sketches to pictures of models, of Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev and Dolce & Gabbana, assorted adverts, postcards and … Continue reading →

As a follow up to yesterday's post about the Russian China exhibition at Moscow's State Museum of Oriental Art, I'm posting today this image focusing on headdresses and featuring the Korean "heukrip" and "jeongjagwan" – both come from the late … Continue reading →

Located in Nikitsky Boulevard, in the pale yellow building known as “Lunin House” designed in the traditions of Russian classicism under the guidance of Italo-Swiss architect Domenico Gilardi (who was inspired in his work by Luigi Cagnola and Giovanni Antonio … Continue reading →

Linguistics is an amazing discipline (one of the reasons why I started loving Noam Chomsky's works when I was at university…), but linguistic conventions are also amazingly funny things. The best thing about languages is indeed the fact that, at … Continue reading →

This is the cover of a recent issue of Russian magazine «Большой Город» , that means The Big City. The magazine mainly focuses on life in Moscow and I was introduced to it by Julia Vydolob at Look At Me … Continue reading →

I'm slowly trying put some order into my notes and my mind at the moment, so more posts about my Russian adventures will follow once I'll be done (in the meantime, thank you so much to all the great people … Continue reading →

You know that famous quote by film director Sergei Eisenstein that says "Books cling to me. They fly down to me – ran up and attach themselves to me"? Well, that's exactly what happens to me: even when I'm not … Continue reading →