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Why did you become an art collector? It wasn't an intentional choice; I myself sometimes wonder why. Hard to say in a few words, you have to dig deep into yourself...

On Saturdays, we would have coffee and éclairs at Entrée, our favourite café not far from Nevsky Avenue. We’d discuss the latest news from the art world and then call at a studio of one of the artists we knew. A lot has changed since then...

In the article Phenomenon of Cuban Art , we examined the main stages and drivers of Cuban art, which are typically reviewed and debated by art historians. Coming to the special nature of art collecting, we change the angle slightly in order to look at the personality and interests of the collector himself...

The world was horrified by the scale of the disaster that hit the Indian Ocean in December 2004. A giant wave swept across the coast of South East Asia, causing devastation and loss of life on its way. Cuban artist Humberto Díaz...

Exhibition will feature works by three contemporary artists, Dace Delina-Lipska, Vladimir Migachev and Ilya Gaponov

Vlad Kulkov`s art is deeply psychological, emotional, often spontaneous. For a relatively long time, the artist has focused on abstract expressionism

RZсollection had the opportunity to present several contemporary artists at a recent meeting of the Changer International Business Club

Artists from different countries meet in a private residence

We invite visual artists working in all fine art media to participate in our contest

Latvian art from the personal RZ collection is to be showcased in Russia for the first time at the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art

Painting, one of the oldest mediums of fine arts has been impregnated with many contradictions, including its decline and recurrence during the last decades...

Approaching Cuban art implies getting closer to the reality of Cuba, a small island in the Caribbean that Columbus mistook for a continent and called “the most beautiful place on earth”, an archipelago whose history is marked by a mix of Hispanic, African, British and Haitian cultures...

For a quarter of a century, my life has been inextricably linked to the work of the great composer Richard Wagner. I was in my early twenties the first time I ever heard his mystery Parsifal...

Innovation in visual arts has always caused controversy. Anything new, incomprehensible or requiring some thinking tends to cause rejection or even strong opposition from society, especially as regards religious subjects in art...

Riga’s citizens and visitors have the opportunity to see a series of paintings “Feeling Wagner” devoted to Wagner’s operas by modern artist Viktor Vasiliev

Over a hundred paper pages, ten years of the collecting process

There are so many avenues open for a collector today, but one of the most prestigious and popular is collecting art. Collecting, of course, is not the same for all, as it tends to have different purposes and objectives...

I have used the threadbare and somewhat pompous word “patron” with some misgivings. Yet it is precise. For a patron is not simply a collector...

By definition, a review involves a judgement or a discussion of qualities of the object under study, a look at its good and bad points. Is a review of an art collection feasible? Not in the full sense of the word...

Love. Man and Woman. Death. Pain. Conversations with Him. All those ancient themes, as old as the world…

Sometimes, inspiration comes while working on a painting much alike the appetite that, as we know, grows with eating...

First came the heavens and the earth, the light and the darkness, the fish and the animals, the man... and ultimately, she

Close your eyes. Count slowly to twelve. Do you hear the second hand ticking in lockstep with your heartbeat?

Until her very last days my grandma treated bread in a very special way, with respect and rare tenderness...