Art · Museums · Paris
Marlene Dumas has become the first contemporary woman artist whose works have been acquired for the collection of the Louvre. The polyptych, which is to hang at the entrance to the new "Pavilion of the Five Continents", is reported to have cost the museum 470,000 euros. The
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
📌 16 December: opening of the exhibition "Beautiful Monsters", devoted to exotic animals in the work of European artists, at the Pushkin Museum, until 1 March 📌 18 December: opening of the exhibition "Legacy of an Era. Mikhail Savitsky" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Kadashevskaya Embankment, until 1
NB! · Aristocracy · Architecture · Moscow · Mores
Art · Books · Observations
People still cling to money, as people clung to crosses in the days of the remote Kerzhenets, but it will not last for ever. People still reach for power, not knowing its measure or its price, but this will not endure for long: other times will come. People still chase
Archive · Books
Ernest Hemingway. In the photograph, from the 1900s: the historian Mikhail Pokrovsky
Books · Observations · Education
A very common error in the government of prepositions turned up in a book title. It is usually met with in the formatting of time intervals, but ordinarily in humdrum circumstances: in notices of opening hours, in announcements and in regulations of every sort, drawn up in haste and without
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Art · Science
It turns out that the famous lions over the main gate of the Mycenaean citadel, dated to the mid-13th century BC, were in fact looking backwards, not at one another. It is also thought that the lions' heads, which have not survived, were made of a different material,
Archive · Art
Semyon Levenkov, 1950s
Archaeology · Observations · Mores · Ethnography
President of Finland Tarja Halonen in the historical Eura dress at the annual Independence Day reception in 2001. The dress is an exact reconstruction of the attire of a Viking Age woman, found in a Viking burial at Eura in western Finland. Just imagine loving your country and your people
London · Society · People
In 1777, a year after America declared its independence from Great Britain, the Anglo-Irish statesman Edmund Burke wrote to his friend and ally, the prominent opponent of the king Charles James Fox, something along these lines:. People oppressed by the law have no hope but to rely on power.
Archive · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
Postcard. Saint Petersburg: Kyakhta Tea Merchants' Association “Jin-Long”, 1900s.
Cinema · Humour
"And who gave you leave to hang portraits of your floozies in here? Eh? Who put up this slattern?" "That is Mozart, sir." "The Barber of Siberia"