Art · Observations · People · Humour
Damien Hirst Speaks of His "Posthumous Drawings" Project: Instructions for Making Works of Art That Can Be Produced and Sold in His Name After the Artist's Death. "The idea is to have a certificate saying: 'First year after Damien's death: you have
Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
While the main building of the Centre Pompidou in Paris closes for lengthy renovation, a new branch of the museum is planned to open in the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu, not far from the Iguazu Falls. The museum's activity will focus both on displaying part of
Art · People · Pop Culture · Humour
A work by the cartoonist Charles Addams, creator of The Addams Family
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Coming Up · Art · Moscow
The ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse" was first staged in 1864 on the stage of the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg. The production was subsequently revived many times at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow over the years. In 1960 came the premiere of a new version of the
Faith · Pop Culture · Ethnography
Ever heard the story of the leshy who took a fancy to a village girl and came courting her in the guise of a wealthy merchant, and her parents gave her to him as a wife? After a while the girl came back to return her cross to her father,
Observations · Nature · Ethnography
In Malaysia and Indonesia the proboscis monkey, or Nasalis larvatus, is called the Dutch monkey, or more precisely simply the Dutchman, literally orang belanda. The curiosity has two explanations. The first is that with their faces these primates reminded the local population of the Dutch, who had once held colonial
Observations · People · Ethnography
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Geography · Nature · Humour
The small New World monkey, the bald uakari, or western cacajao, is known in Brazil by a far simpler name: macaco inglês, that is, the English monkey. Popular rumour has very accurately noticed the outward resemblance of this inhabitant of the tropical forests of Amazonia to English colonists, especially after
Architecture · Books · Moscow · Observations · Reportage
Only in Moscow could this happen: you stroll along a boulevard of an evening and find yourself at an open meeting with a writer. Yesterday that is precisely what befell me. Passing the monument to Sholokhov, I heard Alexandr Tsypkin say something like "what if the cultural capital is
Archive · Books · Moscow · Saint Petersburg
Stocktaking at the Bookshop of the A. Suvorin Partnership on Nevsky Prospect in Saint Petersburg in the early 1900s. Photograph by Karl Bulla. In Moscow, Suvorin's shop stood on Nikolskaya Street and later on Neglinnaya Street. Suvorin took up publishing in 1872 with the issue of a universal