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Paul Poiret's wire turban and the turn-of-the-century fashion for fearing electricity

Incredible, but this feathered ornament by Paul Poiret is in fact made of the finest metal wire. The curator of the Poiret retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs said that for the whole team this extraordinary headdress came as a discovery. But I recalled the amusing fashion of the

Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums

Exhibitions of Plastov, Filatov and Korovin, art of Kazakhstan and the Thaw in October

A regular round-up of current exhibitions in Moscow: where to go. The final week of the exhibition “Arkady Plastov. Graphic Works. 1930s” at the Open Club gallery: until 14 October 7 October: opening of the exhibition “Masterpieces of Kazakhstan Art” at the New Tretyakov Gallery: until 23 November The

View from above of a stairwell with a blue wrought-iron railing, a white figure sculpture hanging on a cable and a hand reaching towards it.

NB! · Observations · Humour

Sculpture suspended in a stairwell, described as a victim of shopping

A victim of shopping. But there is nothing to be done for her now

Museums · Observations · Society

The Pushkin Museum is closing its branches in Kaliningrad and Vladikavkaz

After 26 Years, the Urals Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg Has Closed. The management of the Pushkin Museum had earlier announced the closure of the Baltic Branch in Kaliningrad and the North Caucasus Branch in Vladikavkaz. The decision is connected with a revision of

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Mr Bean Remains One of the Most Outstanding Artists of Our Time

Faith · Art · Observations · Society

A memorial to the victims of abuse within the Church in the Cathedral of the French Diocese of Meaux

Not the most distinguished work of art, but a worthy message

NB! · Books · Observations

Wishing everyone a good week, and may nothing keep you from your reading

In a shop window a doll in a barred cot reads the comic “Obsessions bis”, with a stack of books beside it and the sign Le dilettante above.

NB! · Books · Paris · Humour

Doll Reading a Book in a Cot in a Le dilettante Shop Window

The most frightening bookshop window display imaginable. How Le dilettante imagine the portrait of their reader

NB! · Mores · Pop Culture · Humour

The state after any party when you are 30 and not 20

NB! · Observations

It seems we have begun to forget

Cinema · Pop Culture

Joys always come to us when we least expect them; if a rainbow shines in the sky, the rain is over

As sung in the song by Yury Antonov, with words by Leonid Fadeyev, from the 1981 film "Beregite zhenshchin" ["Take Care of Women"]

NB! · Paris · People · Pop Culture · Humour

A relaxed attitude to luxury means painting your own name on a Louis Vuitton trunk in white paint

A relaxed attitude to luxury means painting your own name on a Louis Vuitton trunk in white paint. Which is exactly what Paul Poiret did.

Alexandr Radayev