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Studio Nyamakop releases Relooted, a game about returning African artefacts from museums
The South African studio Nyamakop has recently released Relooted, a side-scroller about a crew of thieves who, in the near future, break into the private collections of Western museums to return African artefacts to their homeland. According to the plot, the countries have signed a repatriation treaty, but it
Faith · Art · Museums
Christ and Three Angels, Antonello da Messina, 1476
Museo Correr, Venice. Da Messina was a gifted painter of the Early Renaissance, a native of Sicily. He is credited with introducing oil painting to Italy, which he mastered thanks to the Netherlanders and to Jan van Eyck, acknowledged as its genius.
NB! · Archive · Moscow · Observations
Children Sunbathing at the Arbatskaya Metro Station Entrance in Moscow in the 1960s
Children sunbathing near Arbatskaya metro station in the 1960s. Consider how much more human and simple life in Moscow was sixty years ago. Today the city is deprived of such ordinary joys, yet it is drowning in formal conveniences
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Observations
It Turns Out That Tsereteli's Monument to Peter Is Also Immortalised on a Medal for the 300th Anniversary of the Russian Navy
But a cursory glance through the catalogues reveals that this is not the only likeness of the disgraced monument on the artificial island at the confluence of the Moskva River and the Drainage Canal, not far from the Bersenevskaya Embankment. On the same occasion a whole series of similar medals
NB! · Archive · Observations
The Ingenious Infographics of the Nineteenth Century
In the Press · Cinema · New York
Top ten of the 100 best films of the 21st century in a poll of over 500 experts
The 10 Best Films of the 21st Century According to The New York Times:. 1. Parasite, 2019, directed by Bong Joon Ho 2. Mulholland Drive, 2001, directed by David Lynch 3. There Will Be Blood, 2007, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 4. In the Mood for Love, 2000, directed by
Society
European cities and capitals taken by Russian troops from 1710 to 1878
A Short Memorandum on Russia's Victories in Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries. In 1710 the Russian army took Riga, then Reval (Tallinn) and Åbo, then the principal city of Finland. In 1719 the Russian fleet landed troops in the suburbs of Stockholm. In 1760 the Russians
Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
The Hermitage plans multi-year restoration of the Hermitage Theatre and Menshikov Palace
The State Hermitage is to undertake a large-scale restoration of its buildings in the coming years. According to the museum's director, Mikhail Piotrovsky, the work will affect the Hermitage Theatre and the Menshikov Palace and will continue for several years. The plans include the restoration of façades,
Archive · Books · Moscow · People
Life – Work – Death of Mayakovsky
A poster for the evening held by Vasily Kamensky in memory of Mayakovsky at the Bolshoi Theatre. Vasily Kamensky was a Futurist poet and a close friend of Mayakovsky for more than ten years; after the latter's death he published several books about the poet's life.
Architecture · Faith · Art
Mikhail Nesterov, “Saint Olga”, sketch for the murals of St Vladimir’s Cathedral in Kyiv, 1892
Saint Olga. Mikhail Nesterov. Sketch for the mural and the mural itself in St Vladimir's Cathedral in Kyiv, 1892
Geography · Observations · Society
Poland joins the twenty largest world economies as China has yet to overtake the US
From the news of the list of the twenty largest economies in the world: Spain is still on it, China has still not overtaken the USA, though for years we have been promised that this is about to happen (the gap, incidentally, is huge), but the gap between second and