The art of cutting and living. History of art in the newspaper, 1994–2019

What will happen if the academic art critic in the early 1990s by the will of fate enters the news factory? The articles of the famous art critic and associate professor of the European University in St. Petersburg Kira Dolinina were published by the newspaper and magazines of the Kommersant Publishing House from 1993 to 2020. It would seem that these texts born with information reasons should have disappeared with them, but after time they gathered in a kind of mini -school in the history of art, where all the great in place and not only all the most important, but also serious language explained about them. Art -history problems. The spectrum of heroes is vast-from Rembrandt to Degas, from Man to Kabakov, from Umberto Eco to Mamyshev-Monro, from Akhmatova to Brodsky. All this gathered in a certain, following the definition of the great historian Carlo Ginzburg, the “microhistory” of art, with which the history of museums, street art, women-artists, all forgotten marginals and, of course, necrologists were intertwined