NB! · Humour
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Art · Heritage · People
A very sad find: Gesina ter Borch, an artist of the Dutch Golden Age, drew her brother Moses, to whom death creeps up from behind a tree and rows towards in a boat, and her sister Elteken, whom death leads through a church
NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour
Only now does it become clear that the goose on the Barbour poster of 1999 was precisely the one that lays the golden eggs
NB! · Architecture · Pop Culture · Humour
The Ralph Lauren Store in Chicago Looks Like the American Branch of Hogwarts
NB! · Art
Contemporary Art Market Statistics
Contemporary art market statistics. Basquiat was already the most sought-after and most expensive contemporary artist in 2000. Since then, only the level of prices has changed. Source: Artguide
Art · New York · Society
Sotheby's to pay New York State $6.25 million to settle tax fraud suit brought by Attorney General Letitia James
Sotheby's will pay New York State $6.25 million to settle a tax fraud suit brought by Attorney General Letitia James. The suit accused the auction house of helping its clients to evade taxes. Attorney General James alleges that the investigation uncovered, among other things, a scheme that
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Museum AZ to show 70 works by Vladimir Yakovlev for the artist's 90th anniversary
On 27 November the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art on Maroseyka will open the exhibition "And in the Steppe the Wind Is Raging…", marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of the artist Vladimir Yakovlev (1934–1998) The exhibition will include 70 works from the collections of
The East · Books · Observations
Tolstoy’s Service in the Caucasus and Sevastopol, “The Cossacks” and “Sevastopol Sketches”
Have you read "The Cossacks"? Prince Olenin, disillusioned with life and sunk in complete moral decline, goes straight off to the active army in the hope of distracting himself amid new circumstances and places. He hopes that closeness to nature and to the simple folk will help him
NB! · Cinema · People · Pop Culture
Love Story, a drawing by Viktor Tsoy created in 1987
Love Story, Viktor Tsoi. 1987
Aristocracy · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage
Count Orlov's late 18th century grotto in Neskuchny Garden restored for the first time
In the Neskuchny Garden, Count Orlov's grotto, recognised as a cultural heritage site of federal significance, has been restored for the first time. Its viewing platform opens onto the Moskva River, Catherine's Pond and Count Orlov's Summer House. The structure appeared here at the
Archaeology · Moscow · Nature · Ethnography
Tiles with crowned cats found at excavations on Tverskaya and Nikolskaya streets in Moscow
In the Seventeenth Century Muscovites Loved Cats So Much That They Depicted Them Wearing Crowns. During work at two archaeological sites in Moscow, on Tverskaya Street and on the grounds of the Chizhevsky Compound on Nikolskaya Street, clay tiles were discovered bearing the image of a cat in a crown.
Interviews · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg
Interview on the isolation of the Russian art market and exchange of museum collections abroad
Another interesting fragment from Marina Loshak's recent interview. — Is the Russian art market content with Vasnetsov and Serov? — It is very bad when a culture, however rich and varied it may be, stews in its own juice. It is one single "broth", and every ingredient in