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Alexandr Radayev
Books · Humour
Alexander Sumarokov and his work “On Fools”
The fool is always sure to thrive, And wise men find in him their solace; But should the fool be rich, The wise man is to him not merely brother, But slave and flatterer, and therein he sins. Alexander Sumarokov, "On Fools"
Art · Ethnography · Humour
The sixteenth-century Flemish painting "The Legend of the Baker of Eeklo" tells a diverting folk tale about the inhabitants of the town of Eeklo, dissatisfied with their faces or their wits, who turned to the local baker for correction
But for the correction to be made, the unsuccessful head first had to be severed from the body, washed, dusted with flour and basted with egg yolks, and then slid into the oven on a baker's peel. In the meantime, a cabbage head was set in place of
Ethnography · Humour
One fool can throw a stone into the water that ten wise men cannot fish out
Russian proverb
Coming Up · Art · Paris
Waddington Custot opens its new Paris space with an exhibition on the Nabis
In April, Galerie Waddington Custot opens a new space on rue de Seine in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. For the opening they have chosen the theme "Nabi Shock": the exhibition is devoted to the Nabis, one of the most underrated movements in the history of modernism. The Nabis
Books · Society
Of all speculations the most accessible, and therefore the most widespread, is speculation in patriotism; love of the motherland sells most briskly of all, and in every age this has been a commodity in great demand
Viktor Petrovich Astafyev, "Damned and Killed"
NB! · Archive · Mores
Girls playing hopscotch in a stairwell in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 1960s
Girls playing hopscotch in the stairwell of a block of flats in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the 1960s. Photo by Yury Sadovnikov, MDF archive
Archive · Books · People
Two writers photographed by Sofya Andreyevna at Yasnaya Polyana in October 1900
Gorky Was Forty Years Younger than Tolstoy. At Yasnaya Polyana the writers were photographed by Sofya Andreyevna in October 1900
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
An inspiring spring exhibition, "Larionov / Goncharova
An inspiring spring exhibition, "Larionov / Goncharova. The Beginning", has opened at the Pushkin Museum. It is the first to explore the earliest, pre-avant-garde period in the work of two outstanding figures, a couple of Russian art. The thoroughly Impressionist pastels and drawings by Larionov and Goncharova
Architecture · In the Press · Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
France's new Culture Minister Catherine Pégard said on France Inter on 30 March that the Louvre renovation plan must be adjusted to take account of security concerns
France's new Culture Minister Catherine Pégard said on France Inter on 30 March that the Louvre renovation plan must be adjusted to take account of security concerns. It is her first public interview in her new post. The occasion was the robbery of the museum on 19 October
NB! · Archive · Observations · Mores · Society
Miners' children resting on the lakeshore in Chebarkul District in 1953
Miners' children at a rest home of the coal industry trade union in the Chebarkul district of the Chelyabinsk region, on the shore of the three lakes, in 1953. Do you think such bliss will ever be seen in Russia again?
Art · Museums · Heritage
Three works by Cézanne, Matisse and Renoir stolen from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation near Parma
A new high-profile theft. Three small-format works with a combined estimated value of about €9 million have been stolen from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation, a private collection of Old Masters and modern art near Parma: Paul Cézanne's "Cup and Plate of Cherries", Henri Matisse&