Art · London · Museums
Tall dark hat with a brim from the Victoria and Albert Museum
An English Hat of the Seventeenth Century. Victoria and Albert Museum
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Humour
You Have Drawn Climatic Camilla, Who Foretells Foul Weather for the Coming Week
NB! · Observations
Colleagues, can anyone explain what is going on in this photograph?
NB! · Books · Pop Culture · Humour
In Tyumen, an Avito listing offers an apartment in exchange for volume 4 of the Igor Grom comic
One-bedroom flat for sale or exchange for Volume 4 of the comic: Tyumen's biggest fan of Major Grom discovered. Or else a very witty piece of work by the marketers
Archive · Faith · Paris
Snap me with Notre-Dame!
Snap me with Notre-Dame! Have you? Have you snapped it? Paris, 1952
NB! · Archive
The Orseolo Basin, Venice, 1952
The East · Books · Society
Boris Kornilov's 1930 verse on the British occupation of Baku and its oil
The government is provisional, a provisional screen; the second revolution, a screen on its side… England has sniffed the air: it smells rich. The occupation of Baku has been played out by the book. Smooth and hard, like an oaken egg, like a tub, the chief actor of the piece,
NB! · Society · Nature · Humour
The Only Dwelling a Respectable Opossum Can Afford in Present Economic Conditions
NB! · Faith · The East · Art
The Flight into Egypt of the Holy Family, as Imagined by the Chinese Artist Ren Yifang
Archive · Society · Saint Petersburg
“To the Citizens of Russia!
“To the citizens of Russia! The Provisional Government has been deposed. The cause for which the people have fought, the immediate proposal of a democratic peace, the abolition of landlords’ ownership of the land, workers’ control over production, the creation of a Soviet government, that cause is secured. Long live
NB! · The East · Mores
A Means of Conveyance for the Well-to-Do Chinese, or Plans for the Day
Art · Museums · Paris · Ethnography
Taino and Kalinago chair on show at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris
A chair by craftsmen of the Antilles. A work of art by the Taíno and Kalinago peoples, who inhabited the Caribbean basin before the arrival of Columbus. Together with other examples of this culture, the chair is on show at the exhibition “Taínos and Kalinagos of the Antilles” in one