Art · Observations · Humour
Work by American artist Norwood MacGilvary showing figures among the stars
The Birth of an Idea, 1920. The American artist Norwood MacGilvary. Could not put it better.
Alexandr Radayev
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Vasily Slonov's art object became a dessert at the Tunguska restaurant in Krasnoyarsk
An art object in the style of the "Apocalypse Quilted Jackets" by the Krasnoyarsk artist Vasily Slonov has become a dessert at the local restaurant Tunguska. The pieces of cotton wool are inedible. The dessert proper, the blade of the knife, is made of ice cream with white
NB! · Observations
Do you know who this monkey is?
NB! · Cinema · Pop Culture
Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula and on the poster for the film
The East · Art · Humour
A chess game between a Christian and an Arab in thirteenth-century Al-Andalus
A Christian-Arab game of chess. Al-Andalus, 13th century. If Black's move is H2, White has a fair chance of drawing the game. Failing that, we are left with victory in the Reconquista, which is not at all bad either.
Education · Society · People · Pop Culture
Krasnoyarsk airport, opera theatre and arts institute named after Dmitry Khvorostovsky
In Krasnoyarsk, an airport and the state opera and ballet theatre are named after Dmitri Hvorostovsky. At this theatre Dmitri Hvorostovsky was a soloist from 1985 to 1990. Krasnoyarsk is Hvorostovsky's native city: here he studied at a music school and in the music department of a teacher
The East · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage announced new centres in Korea and Oman after 2022
Mikhail Piotrovsky announces the opening of new Hermitage centres abroad, in Oman and South Korea. The centres in Korea and Oman are the first overseas satellites of the Hermitage to be announced since 2022.
NB! · Humour
Flying Too High? Mind That Hermes Doesn't Fall on Your Head
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When you have walked past every stand at Cosmoscow and are ready to discuss what you saw
NB! · Faith · People · Rome · Humour
Nothing out of the ordinary, just the Pope celebrating his birthday in the courtyard of the Lateran Basilica
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Nature
The Bounty of Nature in the Frescoes of Pompeii
Faith · Art
Simon Marmion produced the “Hours of Jean de Gros” between 1474 and 1484
The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Singing Angels. Simon Marmion, "Hours of Jean de Gros", between 1474 and 1484