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Can you name an artist who never painted flowers?

Can you name an artist who never painted flowers? As the exhibition Something about flowers at the Alina Pinsky Gallery has shown, even in František Kupka, if one is so inclined, a vase of flowers can be found. The exhibition, which is much to my liking, tells, as it were,

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums

Another selection of the main discoveries of Moscow's museums and art galleries in our regular column

✔️The exhibition "ART-Workshop XXI. A Mirror for the Artist" at the exhibition hall of the Zaryadye Media Centre, Varvarka 6/1, until 15 September. ✔️The exhibition by Pavel Efanov and Alla Polkovnichenko, "Urban Romantics", at the Vykhino Gallery of the Moscow Exhibition Halls Association, Tashkentskaya

NB! · Architecture · Cinema · Heritage

The hunting galleries of the French château of Raray, built in the early seventeenth century, were immortalised in world culture by Jean Cocteau, who chose them as the setting for his 1946 film "Beauty and the Beast", with Josette Day and Jean Marais, who

Books · Monarchies · Mores · Education

Mirror for Princes: a genre of medieval literature written to instruct rulers, containing precepts and recommendations for dukes, princes and inexperienced kings

Thus a French Speculum Principis of the early sixteenth century contains the counsel not to "speak against the sun" and not to "make water facing the sun"

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Good morning, and a productive working week

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The Squirrel from "Ice Age" Turns Up in Svetlana Zharnikova's Interview

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Well, Hang In There

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage

Restoration of the Single-Storey Wooden Terskoy-Lopatin House in Sechenovsky Lane

Restoration of the single-storey wooden Terskoy-Lopatin House in Sechenovsky Lane. The house dates from the 1820s and has fine stucco decoration characteristic of the period, together with a wrought-iron fence. The building stood empty for many years but, thank God, has survived. I hope the restoration work

Screenshot of a Moscow traffic map with closed road sections shown in black and with no-entry signs, including sections of the TTK.

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour

Road closures marked on the map of Moscow, Garden Ring remains open

Meanwhile, half of Moscow is closed off again. Thank goodness it's not the Garden Ring, at least

NB! · Society · Pop Culture

The Melodiya Company, the country's oldest sound industry firm, will open a vinyl record plant

The Melodiya Company, the country's oldest sound industry firm, will open a vinyl record plant. The plant will be launched in Novosibirsk in spring 2025, producing 100,000 records a year, both from Melodiya's catalogue and to order