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Moscow in 1982 through the lens of the celebrated German photographer Walter Schmitz, who repeatedly visited the USSR in search of inspiration
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Beloved Smolenka, 1982
Beloved Smolenka, 1982. Photo by Walter Schmitz
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
Among today's news, besides the session of the Council for Culture and the Arts, a very pleasant message from the Tretyakov Gallery for Culture Worker's Day
Among today's news, besides the session of the Council for Culture and the Arts, there is a very pleasant message from the Tretyakov Gallery for Culture Worker's Day: to keep the creator alive within oneself, and to remember that culture workers turn routine into a work
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Detail of a sculpture made of charred and brass violin parts
Art · Observations
Arman Pierre Fernandez, a Founder of New Realism, and His “La Fenice III”
How do you like this little fiddle, "La Fenice III " by the French-American artist Arman Pierre Fernandez? Arman was one of the founders of Nouveau Réalisme, the very artist who built a tower of 60 concreted cars not far from Le Perche. He often used ordinary household
Books · Observations
Beware of Things!
Beware of things! They enslave us very quickly and very firmly! So warns his interlocutor Ebenezer Sidney, the hero of Alexander Grin's novella "The Grey Motor-Car", as he reflects on the degree to which mechanical objects (or creatures) may be endowed with life. I recalled
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Ethnography · Humour
Leopold I in ceremonial dress and a gigantic headdress of white plumes, crowned with a peacock: a sign of good news
Prince Gundaker of Liechtenstein with a sail of black feathers on his head: a bad omen
NB! · Art · Books · People
In the 1960s Tove Jansson illustrated the Finnish and Swedish editions of The Hobbit, and the result was some of the least canonical drawings ever made for Tolkien's universe
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Museum gallery with costumed mannequins and a dragon on a rock
Architecture · Geography · Cinema · Museums
Orava Castle in Slovakia, where “Nosferatu” was filmed, and its film media library
Orava Castle is a medieval fortress in Slovakia, perched on a 112-metre rock above the River Orava. It was here that the 1922 film "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror" was shot. True, in the plot the castle stands in Romania. In 2015, in the castle, where a
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