Architecture · Heritage · Society

Programme to attract 300 billion roubles from investors for restoring architectural monuments in Russia

Russia launches a preferential lending programme for the restoration of cultural heritage sites. The programme will make it possible to attract 300 billion roubles of extra-budgetary funds for the restoration of architectural monuments in unsatisfactory condition. At present Russia has more than more than 156,000 cultural heritage sites,

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage

Pushkin Museum to show rescued masterpieces, the Baryatinsky collection and French drawing

The Pushkin Museum Unveils Its Exhibition Programme for 2025. Of particular interest are the exhibitions in the Main Building, "Returning to the Future. On the History of Masterpieces Lost and Saved in the Second World War" and "The Museum of the Baryatinskys. European Art of the 17th–

Architecture · Moscow · Museums

The first building of the museum quarter of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

The first building of the museum quarter of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is planned to open in autumn 2026. "At the end of next year they will begin handing over the first buildings to us. This will be the building of the depository and restoration complex,

NB! · Art

The Snail and the Angel, Salvador Dalí, 1977

Faith · Art

Madonna of the Veil, or the Loreto Madonna, Raphael Sanzio, 1508

It is believed that the infant Jesus is playing with the very veil in which the Virgin will wrap his head after the Crucifixion

Geography · Heritage · Society

Venice to increase the number of paid city visit days from 30 to 54

In 2025 Venice will raise its day-tripper tax to €10. The original charge of €5 was introduced to curb the flow of tourists. According to the city authorities, however, the measure failed to achieve its aim, and thanks to the Venice Biennale the number of visitors has actually grown.

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

Caravaggio's Boy with a Basket of Fruit at the Musée Jacquemart-André, on tour with the masterpieces of the Galleria Borghese

NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

Splendid pyjamas, Monsieur Saint-Saëns!

Splendid pyjamas, Monsieur Saint-Saëns! Might you spare us the Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22? At least in the performance of Aldo Ciccolini

NB! · Faith · The East · Society

The woman Bishop of Stockholm has proposed that churches in her diocese remove images of the cross and install signs indicating the direction of Mecca

NB! · Architecture · Observations · Society · Paris

Beneath the main nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, the largest temporary indoor ice rink in the world has been open since 14 December!

Beneath the main nave of the Grand Palais in Paris, the largest temporary indoor ice rink in the world has been open since 14 December! A spectacle of great beauty, but I warn you at once: to get inside, you must arrive at least 2 hours ahead, as the whole

Black and white photograph of a woman with short curly hair holding a cigarette in the foreground, and a blonde woman with a cigarette behind her at a table with beer cans.

NB! · Archive · Cinema · Pop Culture

Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve in a photograph from 1982

Susan Sarandon, 36, and Catherine Deneuve, 39. 1982