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Есть лица, подобные пышным порталам, Где всюду великое чудится в малом. Есть лица — подобия жалких лачуг, Где варится печень и мокнет сычуг. Иные холодные, мертвые лица Закрыты решетками, словно темница. Другие — как башни, в которых давно Никто не живет и не смотрит в окно. Но малую хижинку знал я когда-
Books · Observations · Society · Humour
The Legislative Commission has existed for a hundred and fifty years, has cost millions and has accomplished nothing. Do you remember how Prince Andrei did not wish to join the commission for the compilation of laws, pleading that it required a legal education, which he did not possess? And Speransky,
Books · People · Humour
"I'm not lazy. I'm simply very gifted, but instead of being good at music or mathematics, I am skilled at sleeping late" Elizabeth Jane Howard, writer, actress and model
Books · Observations · Humour
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder Materialism and Empirio-Criticism Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism What Is to Be Done, at Last
NB! · Observations
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Education
On 12 March the 12th season of the Open Studios project began at the Vinzavod Centre for Contemporary Art. The participants of the new season are the artists Pavel Grishin, Katya Zhilina, Alina Zolotykh, Karolina Roslyak, Polina Rukavichkina, Tamara Serdtseva, Varvara Silantyeva, Lena Solovyeva, Andrey Soul and Maria Stadnik. Open
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Art · Museums · New York · Society
The first, "Before America", was a group show devoted to the transatlantic slave trade and the African diaspora, featuring work by contemporary Afro-Latin American, Caribbean and African American artists. Museum staff reported that the Trump administration had withdrawn funding from the exhibition, due to open on 21
Books · Observations
Rudin's misfortune is that he does not know Russia, and this is indeed a great misfortune. Russia can do without any one of us, but not one of us can do without her. Woe to him who thinks otherwise, and double woe to him who actually does do
NB! · Observations · Society · Nature · Humour
The Amazon forest is being felled to build a road to an environmental summit. This world has no chance 🤦🏿♀️
Cinema · Heritage · People
A memorial plaque on house No. 72, Chkalov Street, in the city of Rybinsk commemorates the sons of Khaim Shmuilovich Shenker, a clerk at the Rybinsk office of the Volga River Steamship Company, Joseph and Nicholas, who emigrated with their family to the USA in 1893, when they were 15
Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Museums · Paris
The Centre Pompidou has closed, but there is still a reason, and a chance, to visit it. Gallerie 4, which remains open until June, is currently hosting an exhibition of the architect and conceptual artist Hans Hollein (1934–2014), who worked in extreme design and architecture for more than fifty