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Tarantino prepares a play for London's West End and leaves Israel
Quentin Tarantino has announced that his next major project will be a stage play. He plans to present the production on the stage of a London West End theatre. The text of the play is already finished, but active work on the staging will begin in early 2026 and will
Art · Museums · Observations · Paris · People · Pop Culture · Reportage
Paul Poiret as an artist and creator of fashion's visual world at an exhibition in Paris
As promised, I return to my report on this season's fashion exhibitions in Paris. The large retrospective of the work of Paul Poiret will interest not only lovers of the history of costume, but indeed anyone enthralled by fashion and style. The exhibition at the Musée des Arts
Art · Ethnography
The Serpent King
A drawing by Valery Slauk, Professor at the Belarusian Academy of Arts
NB! · Archive · Society · Humour
As a history graduate, Mark Rutte could not simply walk past a stack of documents left lying about in a White House corridor
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Humour
Imagine, in 1939 people were saying: "Why do we need another adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, when we already had one 14 years ago?"
Observations · Society
It is odd that the President of Finland, sitting before Trump, recalls that the Finns found a solution in 1944
It is odd that the President of Finland, sitting before Trump, recalls that the Finns found a solution in 1944. After all, in the autumn of 1944 Finland, which had fought on the side of Nazi Germany and had been defeated by the USSR, first entered into negotiations on a
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Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child
Faith · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, Rogier van der Weyden, 1440
One of the copies of this work is in the Hermitage
NB! · Art · People
Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of the head of a young woman
Leonardo da Vinci. Head of a Young Woman
Faith · Madrid · Observations · Society · Paris
Removal of crosses from posters, emblems and images of churches in Europe and Russia
Crosses vanish from Montmartre on Paris Olympics posters, crosses are removed from the badges of European football clubs, and in Spain a proposal has been made to pull down the monumental cross above the Valley of the Fallen. In Western Europe the wave of “de-crossing”, fuelled by embittered anticlericalism,
Art · Books · Mores · Paris
…gleaming with the whiteness of her shoulders, the glossiness of her hair and diamonds, she passed between the men who stood aside <...> granting each the right to admire the beauty of her figure, her full shoulders, her bosom and back, very bare accordin
…gleaming with the whiteness of her shoulders, the glossiness of her hair and diamonds, she passed between the men who stood aside <...> granting each the right to admire the beauty of her figure, her full shoulders, her bosom and back, very bare according to the fashion of the