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Metro accessibility for people with limited mobility in Paris, Tokyo and Moscow

The French on Opportunities for Normal Life for Disabled People in Paris: A Paralympian Carrying the Olympic Flame Cannot Get Down into the Metro. A reminder: in Paris only 9 stations out of 300 are fully equipped for wheelchair users. In Tokyo, by comparison, it is 186 out of 211.

NB! · Observations · Humour

A Thousand Years On, Nothing Has Changed

Faith · Cinema · Monarchies · Humour

Horns on the helmet of Alexander the Great and their link to the cult of Zeus and Amon

The helmet of Alexander of Macedon in the film "Gentlemen of Fortune" is made from a fireman's helmet. Alexander did in fact have a horned helmet, but the point is not whether it bore even the faintest resemblance to a firefighter's hard hat painted

A grey-blue column made of many thin horizontal layers, like a stack of paper. On the left, behind glass, a gallery shows a bright pink and purple artwork on the wall.

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Column of stacked paper sheets in an exhibition hall

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums

Tomorrow Two Very Impressive Exhibitions Open at Garage:

Spirit Labor, dedicated to the memory of Nikita Alexeev, brings together 40 works by the best-known artists from various countries who have explored time. The curators are Andrey Misiano and Snezhana Krasteva. Among the authors are the greatest names in world art, from Yury Albert to On Kawara, and

Oval mask with openings for the eyes and mouth, the left half darker than the right, a bead at the mouth and a ruler on the left.

Museums · Mores · Humour

Sixteenth-century mask with a bead held in the mouth, possibly for sun protection

A sixteenth-century mask worn... to keep off the sun? To hold it in place, one had only to clamp between the teeth a small bead attached to it. And should anyone still suspect you of being a vampire, simply say that you hadn't had time to put

NB! · Faith · Art

Liberale da Verona, Saint Jerome and the Lion

A pale blue wall-mounted frame with a wavy edge holds a small ornate frame with an oval opening, blue stitched clouds, a frog on top and two small dinosaur figures below.

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Pale blue shaped frame object with a frog and miniature dinosaurs

Art · Observations · Society Pages

Took a cursory look at the Blazar young art fair: pleasing to see how the project has grown in a year: many new partners, new architecture, lecture halls for professionals, and as many as 20 galleries received free stands…

Took a cursory look at the Blazar young art fair: pleasing to see how the project has grown in a year: many new partners, new architecture, lecture halls for professionals, and as many as 20 galleries received free stands (up to 3 artists each). Prices, admittedly, have also risen noticeably,

Two elderly men sit in a restaurant, smiling and pointing their fingers at the camera.

NB! · Cinema · Paris · People · Pop Culture

Pierre Richard, 87, remembers his friend Jean-Paul Belmondo, mourned across France

87-year-old Pierre Richard remembers his friend Jean-Paul Belmondo. He writes that all of France is in mourning. In fact, the whole world is in mourning

Observations · People · Society Pages

A viewer’s response to the premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov’s production of “The Decameron”

My heartfelt congratulations to Kirill Serebrennikov on an incredible premiere, a great success, and such a beautiful and kind production! When the whole house was shrieking “bravo!”, I was there too, stamping my little foot 🧚🏼‍♀️ For the first time in a great many premieres I did not leave during the

Coming Up · Observations · Education · Humour

I remember Vladimir Annushkin from the school literature olympiads of old, where the distinguished professor was habitually the wise chairman of the jury and even strummed something on the guitar

I remember Vladimir Annushkin from the school literature olympiads of old, where the distinguished professor was habitually the wise chairman of the jury and even strummed something on the guitar. And now, who would have thought it, we may meet again after so many years: I see him among the

Alexandr Radayev