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Hagia Sophia, filmed from a helicopter

Hagia Sophia, filmed from a helicopter. Just imagine how beautiful it was before the seizure

Abstract canvas with black, grey and white brushstrokes in a light wooden frame on a dark grey wall. The canvas edges are rolled at top and bottom like a scroll.

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Abstract painting in grey tones in a wooden frame on a museum wall

Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

The exhibition “Square and Space” opens at GES-2, with works from Malevich to the Kabakovs

The "Square and Space" exhibition, curated by Zelfira Tregulova and Francesco Bonami, has opened at GES-2. Judging by the sheer number of first-rank names gathered for it, this is an event of international standing. According to the curators' conception, in the first quarter of the

NB! · Cinema · Observations · People

Thank you, Donald Sutherland, for the many brilliant performances you have left us

Black-and-white photograph of two girls dancing on a curving street beside a fountain, with the tall bare wall of a demolished house and an old car nearby.

NB! · Archive · Paris

Robert Doisneau photographs two girls dancing on a Paris street in 1950

Two girls dancing in the street, Paris, 1950. Photo by Robert Doisneau

Cinema · Mores · People

Three years ago, on receiving the Golden Lion, the actor and director Roberto Benigni addressed his wife, the actress and producer Nicoletta Braschi:

"We have spent 40 years doing everything together. I know only one way of measuring time: with you or without you."

A large black-and-white panel hangs on a gallery wall, showing a wooded ravine with bare, ivy-covered trees and a narrow path between overgrown slopes.

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Black-and-white forest landscape on a textile panel in a gallery

Coming Up · Art · Observations · Society Pages

A remarkable, vivid and absorbing exhibition, "Threads", has opened at the Ruarts Foundation

A highly representative, almost textbook selection of artists who work with textiles in every conceivable form, as the exhibition's curator Nina Gomiashvili writes in her foreword, took as its point of departure Hans Christian Andersen's nettle coats of mail, but has grown into a museum-grade

Copper octopus sculpture with outstretched tentacles set against an arched window with a dark grille and a border of shells.

NB! · Architecture · Art · Paris

Octopus in the decor of the main entrance of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris

The octopus decorating the main entrance of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris. Dedicated to lovers of Art Nouveau

NB! · Society · Pop Culture · Rome

On the eve of the Italy v Spain match at Euro 2024, supporters of the Italian national team unfurled an Italian shirt, apparently of American size, on the Spanish Steps in Rome

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I do not know who first devised this design, but I support it wholeheartedly

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Alexandr Radayev