Exhibitions in Moscow: what's on now
7 exhibitions at the museums of Moscow from our list — with dates, venues and what each is worth seeing for.
The Diamond Vehicle. Buddhist Art of Russia
Over seven hundred objects: sculpture and painting of Russian Buddhism, almost none of it shown before. More than a hundred sculptures were conserved for the opening.
Work by the sculptor who carved quebracho and algarrobo: in his hands wood holds shapes impossible in marble.
More than 150 sheets that almost never leave the store: pastel sheds under light and movement and is rarely shown. Halls 49–54.
Over 140 works from twenty collections: The Pool, The Emerald Necklace and studies almost never shown. Russian Symbolism is one of the summits at which art lifts a person beyond himself; a retrospective this full comes once in a generation.
The first large exhibition of the new Kadashevskaya wing: the flower in Russian art from the icon to the 20th century.
Money in The Master and Margarita: ancient Judaea and Moscow of the 1920s–30s, set object against object. For Bulgakov’s 135th anniversary.
Iranian painting of the 18th and 19th century, recently acquired by the museum. A small show in the main building on Nikitsky Boulevard.