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Alexandr Radayev
Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture
A viewer's critical review of the Vernik brothers' programme on the Kultura channel
I sometimes watch the programme with the Vernik brothers on Kultura. And I cannot say that I have once been pleased with it. The gentlemen simply do not measure up: they fall short of the standard of a federal channel, at least as I conceive it. Even the two of
Observations · Mores
English bathing machines for women and their spread across Europe in the 19th century
Bathing machines are naturally an invention of the English. At the end of the eighteenth century, the champions of piety devised this way for women to enjoy the sea without loss of dignity or visible propriety. By the middle of the nineteenth century, in the heyday of Victorianism, machines for
Art · Observations · People
James Ensor, the Belgian painter, and his early 1876 work “The Bathing Machine”
Good Old Traditions of Self-Isolation. Today is the birthday of the celebrated Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949), remembered chiefly for canvases of grotesque figures, skeletons playing the part of living people, and masks. But what came to my mind was his lonely bathing machine of 1876. This early
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Maria Callas and Winston Churchill in one photograph in a relaxed setting
A unique shot: Maria Callas, with Winston Churchill behind her. Who would have imagined the two of them in one place, and in such a relaxed setting at that
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This Is the Best
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The Phystech lot are joking, and I honestly cannot say which of these returns I am awaiting more
Faith · Heritage · Paris
Today is Good Friday for Catholics, the day on which the crucifixion of Jesus is recalled, which means that in Paris one of the greatest Christian relics is venerated: the Crown of Thorns of Christ, kept since 1806 in the treasury of Notre-Dame de Paris,
Today is Good Friday for Catholics, the day on which the crucifixion of Jesus is recalled, which means that in Paris one of the greatest Christian relics is venerated: the Crown of Thorns of Christ, kept since 1806 in the treasury of Notre-Dame de Paris, and which reached France
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The Vendôme Column before and after its destruction
Archive · Society · Paris
Boston Athenaeum publishes photographs of the 1871 Paris Commune
The Boston Athenæum has put online a collection of photographs of the Paris Commune and the fortified suburbs of Paris in 1871, as the Franco-Prussian War drew to a close. Cannon in the city, the ruined Ministry of Finance, executions in the streets, and barricades that look nothing like
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Place de la Concorde in 1950s Paris in a painting by Jean Dufy
I do so long to be in the incredible Paris of the fifties of Jean Dufy. Place de la Concorde. I wish everyone such a Chagallian-Dufyesque mood
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Spanish illustrators created coronavirus posters in the spirit of Civil War graphic art
Posters on the fight against coronavirus by contemporary Spanish illustrators, inspired by the graphic legacy of the Civil War. Viva la sanidad publica!