Art · Books · Observations
What a Beauty!
A collection of poems by Bulat Okudzhava in German translation, with colour silkscreen prints by the artist Maurice Goetze. The book was published in 1991 in an edition of only 100 copies
Alexandr Radayev
In the Press · Cinema · Observations
If you haven't yet got round to my series on Wink, you can add my new video on Amediateka to your watchlist
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The Zotov Centre Marks Its First Birthday with a Splendid Exhibition
Coming Up · Books · Observations · Humour
Who Else Suffers From the Same Ruinous Addiction, Comrades?
Who else suffers from the same ruinous addiction, comrades? Shall we all run, in a body, to a specialist? From the programme of the twenty-fifth Non/fiction International Intellectual Literature Fair for 30 November. Leaving aside the wording of the theme, one must admit that all the participants in
Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
Poems by Alexei Kruchenykh
Illustration by Olga Rozanova Shown at the Zotov Centre at the exhibition "Presnya: An Exhibition of My Memory", marking the anniversary of the centre's founding ❤️
Aristocracy · Archive · Observations · Mores · People · Humour
Stephen Tennant in Cecil Beaton's photographs, an aesthete famed for his appearance
In Cecil Beaton's photographs: Stephen Tennant, perhaps one of the most elegant people of the twentieth century, or at the very least one of the best-known aesthetes of the last one. Yet he became famous not for his lineage (though he came from the privileged class), nor
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Old Russian icons and crosses on a red museum gallery wall
Coming Up · Art · Moscow
Wishes for good weekend plans with a photograph of a painting on a wall
Highlights of the new pre-auction exhibition at the Vladey gallery on Neglinnaya Street. Wishing you all good plans for the weekend
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Is it just me, or is the typeface in the logo of the Russian Academy of Sciences rather odd?
NB! · Architecture · Paris
Philharmonie de Paris, architects Jean Nouvel and Christian de Portzamparc, 2015
Archive · Observations
Visitors at café tables on Capri in 1984, photographed from above
Capri, 1984. Look: nobody is sitting on their phones, people are simply living through the moment. Photo by Ferdinando Scianna
Aristocracy · Monarchies · Society Pages
The Yugoslav prince and member of the Serbian royal house Philip Karageorgevich and his wife Princess Danica present their newborn daughter, Princess Maria, to the world
Also in the photograph: Philip's firstborn, Prince Stefan; Danica's parents, the Impressionist painter Milan Marinkovic and Bepa Marinkovic; and Prince Philip's mother, Princess Maria da Gloria of Orléans-Braganza, in her second marriage Duchess of Segorbe