Faith · Society · Rome

Today Pope Francis held his first public audience in six months and spoke some very important words: that all of us need the immediacy of personal contact, which does our souls great good, and that we should pray that the pandemic does not become a pretex

Today Pope Francis held his first public audience in six months and spoke some very important words: that all of us need the immediacy of personal contact, which does our souls great good, and that we should pray that the pandemic does not become a pretext for dividing humanity but

The East · Art · Museums · New York · Paris

The Press Office of Malmaison Reports That Jacques-Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St Bernard Pass Has at Long Last Returned to the Native Walls of the Residence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais from the Brooklyn Museum in New

The press office of Malmaison reports that Jacques-Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St Bernard Pass has at long last returned to the native walls of the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Before that, the canvas was

Coming Up · Museums · Observations · Society

At the North Caucasus branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Vladikavkaz, the exhibition "One for All", devoted to the 75th anniversary of Victory, opens today, the first day of three days of mourning in Ossetia for the victims of Beslan

At the North Caucasus branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Vladikavkaz, the exhibition "One for All", devoted to the 75th anniversary of Victory, opens today, the first day of three days of mourning in Ossetia for the victims of Beslan. The organisers' idea

Coming Up · Art

Alisa Ioffe's exhibition “Taman Diary” at Golubitskoye Estate on the Taman Peninsula, 26 August to 30 November

Listings for subscribers in Krasnodar Krai, neighbouring regions, and anyone planning to spend the warm autumn days well in the South of Russia. The Golubitskoe Art Foundation, on the grounds of the Golubitskoe Estate winery on the Taman Peninsula, invites you to Alisa Ioffe's exhibition "Taman Diary&

Architecture · Observations · Mores · Saint Petersburg

Avito continues to delight with unique lots

Avito continues to delight with unique lots. This time, for a modest 89 million roubles (almost 40 million more than last year's price), this flea market of the whole universe has put up for sale a 240-square-metre, six-room flat with a terrace in the centre

Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Museums

A 1466 tapestry from the series of Duke Philip the Good is kept in the Bern Historical Museum

One of the eight parts of the famous series of tapestries of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. The tapestry was made in 1466 in the millefleurs technique, popular in the 15th and 16th centuries, that is, "a thousand flowers", which make up the main artistic body of

Film still of a portrait of a bearded, long-haired man in red clothing in an ornate gold frame, with candles burning on either side.

NB! · Art · Cinema · Humour

Dracula's Portrait in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Film and Dürer's Portrait

Portrait of Dracula from Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film adaptation vs Dürer's portrait. Neither coincidence nor accident)

NB! · Art · Observations · People

Beauty was stolen from the people and sold back to them under the guise of luxury: golden words from Sir Roger Vernon Scruton

Beauty was stolen from the people and sold back to them under the guise of luxury: golden words from Sir Roger Vernon Scruton. And yes, we miss you very much

Archive · Geography · Science

French 1804 illustration of Napoleon's invasion of England by Channel tunnel and balloons

What are Napoleonic plans? Take, for instance, this illustration of Napoleon's forthcoming conquest of England, from the French press of 1804. The victorious invasion was to proceed beneath the earth and above the water: troops and guns cross through a tunnel under the Channel, accompanied by an attack

NB! · Observations

On the whole, I side with the angel of Saint-Thégonnec

Archive · Science · Mores · Humour

In 1830 American James Barron patented a mechanical fan with a hanging weight

In 1830 the American inventor James Barron patented a mechanical fan with this witty drawing, in which a man reclining on a sofa smokes at his ease and only an open sheet of the Hard Working Men Journal reminds us of the burdens of labour. The fan, driven by clockwork

Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Society

The concert hall of the Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic will sound anew: the building is to be renovated and given a new multifunctional, as is now the fashion, cultural space with new lightsoundvideo equipment and venues for…

The concert hall of the Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic will sound anew: the building is to be renovated and given a new multifunctional, as is now the fashion, cultural space with new lightsoundvideo equipment and venues for lectures, masterclasses and other activities. Curiously, the reorientation of the Philharmonic's premises

Alexandr Radayev