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A visit to Lenin’s Mausoleum in Red Square
Aug 21st, 2020 | Dr Michael Adcock
Moscow held one more treat for me. Paula had very strategically and considerately pointed out that there was a last small window of opportunity in which to sprint over to Red Square to visit Lenin’s tomb in the first hour of opening, just before our bus was due to depart...
The Architectural Gem of Le Musée du Petit-Palais
Jun 25th, 2020 | Dr Michael Adcock
Travellers visiting Paris are eager to visit the capital’s great museums, such as the famous Louvre Museum and the renowned Orsay Museum. There are, however, some two hundred and fifty museums in Paris which are superlative ‘hidden gems’. In these times of restricted travel, cultural historian Dr. Michael Adcock invites...
The year Picasso became Picasso, 1901
Nov 8th, 2019 | Dr Michael Adcock
Picasso’s celebrated Blue Period (starting in the second half of 1901) commands such public attention that it is easy to overlook the truly seminal half year that preceded it, in which Picasso, energised by the prospect of a first exhibition in Paris, worked with determination to create a corpus of...
Art and the Russian Revolution
Sep 13th, 2019 | Dr Michael Adcock
The first-time traveller to Russia may well set out enthralled to see the rich harvest of European Old Master paintings in the Hermitage Museum, as well as the wondrous collection of European modern art now housed in its vast extension. The same traveller, however, might well return having been ‘converted’...
Exhibition Review – Monet: Impression Sunrise at NGA Canberra
Jun 21st, 2019 | Dr Michael Adcock
The National Gallery of Australia’s new exhibition - Monet: Impression Sunrise at NGA Canberra – is now open to the public from June 7 to September 1, 2019. Featuring Claude Monet’s pioneering painting Impression, Soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) 1872, from which Impressionism takes its name, this exclusive exhibition brings together...
