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Scottish visual and performance artist. Born to Gerard and Donna Marie Halliday in Dundee (28 July 1982). Studied at Dundee College (2001–04) and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Du...
Anatoly Borisovich Pekhterev was born in the town of Tutayev in the centre of Yaroslavl Region in the Soviet Union (24 February 1959). He attended School No. 4 in Tutayev (1965–76) and worked for one...
Russian impresario, curator, publisher, critic. Born in the family of Lieutenant General Pavel Dyagilev (1848–1914) and Yevgenia Yevreinova (1848–1872) in the village of Selischi in Novgorod Province...
Sathesh Alagappan was born in London in 1992. He is a history graduate from the University of Southampton, where he took a particular interest in studying the Soviet Union. Sathesh has a background w...
In October 2015, a video of a young Yemeni boy lying on a hospital bed being treated for injuries from flying shrapnel became a moving symbol of the human cost of the war in his country. The video sh...
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor, applied artist, theatrical designer, poster designer, book illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Alexander Vyalov in Moscow (1900). Studied at the Imperial St...
Sculptor, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of Vasily Grube in the village of Grigorievka in Ufa Province (1894). Studied at Penza School of Art (1905–13) and Petrograd University (1914–16)...
Painter, graphic artist. Born in Kharkiv (1828) in the family of a retired Baltic German cornet called Otto Gustav von Schilder (1789–1848) and his wife Wilhelmine Charlotte Friederike von Schmidt (1...
Painter, draughtsman, teacher, restorer. Born in the family of a peasant called Platon Platonov in the village of Vorona in Yaroslavl Province (1841). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1859–70...
Painter, graphic artist, book designer, object artist, photographer. Born in Moscow (1958). Graduated from the Krasnaya Presnya School of Art in Moscow (1976) and Moscow Institute of Polygraphy (1985...