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Alexandr Radayev
Art · Moscow · Humour
When You and Your Other Half Have Different Goals
Lev Povzner, the exhibition “Field of Wonders” at the Alina Pinsky Gallery
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How do you think Pushkin is faring in the hands of the German artist Eberhard Hückstedt?
Observations · Humour
How suit and rank are encoded in pictures on early modern playing cards
The markings on the playing cards of the early modern period may differ greatly from those we are used to, and certainly call for an explanatory note. The suit and rank of a card are encoded in pictures, the combination of which yields the correct value. 5 is a branch
NB! · Nature · Humour
The Dandelion of a Healthy Man
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A girl and an elderly man with a pack holding hands in a dusky landscape
Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
Everything we see hides something else, and we always want to see what is hidden behind what is visible: at Lev Povzner's exhibition "Field of Miracles" at the Alina Pinsky Gallery, one cannot help recalling Magritte's textbook phrase
Everything we see hides something else, and we always want to see what is hidden behind what is visible: at Lev Povzner's exhibition "Field of Miracles" at the Alina Pinsky Gallery, one cannot help recalling Magritte's textbook phrase. Magritte, whom Lev Alexandrovich wittily parodies
Cinema · Paris · People
Alice Guy-Blaché, Gaumont Secretary and the First Woman Fiction Film Director
"I am afraid you are too young, Mademoiselle." "Never mind, that will pass." So Alice Guy-Blaché recalled her engagement as a secretary at the Gaumont company, a post that made her the first woman in history to direct a fiction film. Between 1896 and 1920
NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
New official portrait of King Charles III, his appearance, makeup and retouching
In his new official portrait, King Charles III looks rather poorly. And the make-up and retouching have let the side down
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Communication with space is unavailable, since the pyramids have shifted 4 km south of their original site since construction because of the movement of the earth's crust
Communication with space is unavailable, since the pyramids have shifted 4 km south of their original site since construction because of the movement of the earth's crust. And that is without taking into account the drift of the Earth's and the Sun's orbits
NB! · Art · Paris
The Alley in the Luxembourg Gardens, Vincent van Gogh, 1886
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