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Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Art · Madrid · Museums · Observations
As a movement, Impressionism arose at the end of the nineteenth century, but one need only look at the spinning wheel in Velázquez's Las Hilanderas, painted around 1657, to see an example of liberation from pure geometrical form already in seventeenth-cen
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The American electric toaster of 1929 seems to ask at what point industrial design took a wrong turning
NB! · Monarchies · Observations · People
When I think of Elizabeth II, I picture not a granny in pastel-coloured hats, but a resolute queen in military uniform on horseback at a parade in 1981
When I think of Elizabeth II, I picture not a granny in pastel-coloured hats, but a resolute queen in military uniform on horseback at a parade in 1981. Incidentally, she rides side-saddle
NB! · Education · Society
Rumours of a Return to the Soviet System of Higher Education Turn Out to Be Somewhat Exaggerated
NB! · Archaeology · Monarchies · Society
As a Mark of Respect to the Queen, Eight Portraits of Elizabeth II Projected onto the Stones of Stonehenge
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Hedgehog with a cello in a painting by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini
Hedgehog playing the cello. By the Italian painter Giovanni Boldini
NB! · Mores · Pop Culture · Humour
Yves Montand, Édith Piaf and Permanent Make-Up
NB! · Mores · Humour
And now these women are calling somebody a prostitute, from their bench by the entrance
NB! · Books · Pop Culture · Humour
Neil Gaiman warns at once that his official Tumblr is no better than the unofficial ones
NB! · Faith · Art · Moscow · Observations
Look What a Charming Jesus!
Look what a charming Jesus! My new favourite piece of street art in Moscow, at 6 Tverskaya. By Pixelboy 💟
NB! · Art · Cinema · Pop Culture
What Does the USSR of the Late 1980s Have in Common with (Unexpectedly!) French Painting?
What does the USSR of the late 1980s have in common with (unexpectedly!) French painting? The colour palette: paintings by Henri Matisse and André Derain formed the basis of the colour palette of the Kinopoisk series “Patient Zero”. It turns out that the patterns from Matisse’s canvases fit the