NB! · Archive · Cinema · People · Pop Culture

Mads Mikkelsen at Secondary School

Reddish line drawing on a marble slab: a nude youth fights a centaur, with a third figure visible on the right.

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums

Marble drawing of Theseus and a centaur from Herculaneum, Naples museum

A delightful preparatory drawing on marble: Theseus and the Centaur. Found at Herculaneum, AD 20-30. On display at the Archaeological Museum of Naples

A pale, hazy silhouette of a figure in a long garment emerges from a dark grey fibrous background resembling felt. Small orange and reddish patches show near the centre.

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Blurred pale silhouette of a figure on a dark felt surface

Art · Moscow · Society Pages · Ethnography

A touching, warm exhibition has opened at the Space 1618 gallery in Staromonetny Lane: Saule Madiyeva presents a series of conceptual works in felt

A touching, warm exhibition has opened at the Space 1618 gallery in Staromonetny Lane: Saule Madiyeva presents a series of conceptual works in felt. On the one hand, the artist turns to traditional techniques and uses the favourite material of the nomadic world; on the other, she attempts a personal,

Wall of a building in Bristol with Banksy's graffiti of a man hanging from a window, beside an orange brick building.

Architecture · Art · Heritage · Society

Building of a Former Clinic with Banksy's 2006 Graffiti Put Up for Sale in Bristol

Graffiti on a Wall as a Factor in Investment Appeal? In Bristol, England, a building has been put up for sale bearing a Banksy graffito, left on the wall of a former clinic in 2006. The work is called “Well Hung Lover”. The property is valued at $900,000, and

Coming Up · Observations · Society

It cannot but please that with each passing year cultural initiatives receive ever more institutional support, and that membership of specialist communities is becoming prestigious among the young

It cannot but please that with each passing year cultural initiatives receive ever more institutional support, and that membership of specialist communities is becoming prestigious among the young. This year the annual Russian Creative Awards, to be held tomorrow, has added a special category for young figures in culture, the

Antique black and red carriage with gilded decoration, the name Sorino on its side and a red cross on the body, in a stone courtyard.

Cinema · Museums · Mores

Sorino's mobile dental surgery, he being the inventor of galvanic water, served as an ambulance in the 1870s

The travelling dentist's carriage at the National Automobile Museum in Compiègne, France, recalls the wagon in which the dentist Dr King Schultz travelled in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" This mobile dental surgery belonged to Sorino, the inventor of galvanic water, that is, to all

Observations · Mores

The meaning of the word oshchip in a popular saying and its mistaken pronunciation

Remember the expression "to land like a hen in the plucking"? It is a mangled pronunciation of the winged phrase "to land like a hen in the ощип", where the ощип (oshchip) is the plucking of feathers from a chicken carcass.

Archive · Art · London · Society

Sympathy for the Sorrows of a Once Great Lady

Sympathy for the sorrows of a once great lady. Cartoon by Tom Merry. 28 November 1891 Old Mother Britannia, impoverished by liberal reforms, and her Lion beg for alms against the backdrop of a ruined Palace of Westminster

NB! · Archaeology · Archive · Faith · The East

The Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter at Baalbek, Lebanon: Photographs of the Late Nineteenth Century

Art · People · Humour

Zinaida Serebriakova: Just Don't Copy It Out Word for Word

Yves Breyer: fine by me

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Alexandr Radayev