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Near Oryol, at the Turgenev Museum-Reserve Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the exhibition "Invisible Threads

Near Oryol, at the Turgenev Museum-Reserve Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the exhibition "Invisible Threads. Christian and Historical Subjects in the Work of Russian Artists" is open until 30 March. A rare opportunity to see masterpieces of Russian art in regional museum halls. The exhibition presents works by Repin, Vasnetsov,

NB! · Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage

"The Book House", or the Comecon Building on Novy Arbat, Declared Unfit for Use and Due for Demolition, in Soviet Print

A room-sized transparent dome on a white plinth. Inside, miniature swings and a small screen stand on artificial snow, while light patterns play across the gallery walls.

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Installation of a giant snow globe with a swing set in a museum gallery

Coming Up · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, together with The Art Newspaper Russia, presents the project "This Is the Best We Have"

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, together with The Art Newspaper Russia, has presented the project "This Is the Best We Have". The Art Newspaper Russia's Choice. The exhibition is a retrospective of Russian contemporary art over more than half a century. The display includes selected

Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Geography · Science

The Area of Babylon According to Herodotus and to Modern Researchers

Herodotus describes Babylon as a square city with sides of 120 stadia. One stadium is about 175 metres, so the area of Babylon, according to Herodotus, was 441 square kilometres, the size of 4 modern Parises or half of New York. Quite an enormous city to have in the desert.

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In 2003 the Getty Museum acquired three miniatures from the fifteenth-century manuscript "The Hours of Louis XII", created by the court artist and painter of the French Renaissance Jean Bourdichon

In 2003 the Getty Museum acquired three miniatures from the fifteenth-century manuscript "The Hours of Louis XII", created by the court artist and painter of the French Renaissance Jean Bourdichon. One of the miniatures, depicting King Louis XII surrounded by four saints, seemed incomplete: the saints were

Monarchies · Observations · Mores · People

The age gap of Henry II and Diane de Poitiers compared with the Macrons

Diane de Poitiers, favourite of the French King Henry II, was twenty years his senior. Just imagine how conspicuous such a difference was by the standards of the sixteenth century! She also outlived him by seven years. By all accounts, the delightful wife of the French President Macron, Brigitte, is

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The Venus of Willendorf is a very compact sculpture and really can fit in the palm of a hand

Painting of a child in a white Pierrot costume and black cap hugging a large black cat standing on its hind legs.

Art · Paris · Nature · Humour

Théophile Steinlen’s 1889 painting “Pierrot and the Cat” and his link to the Paris cabaret Le Chat Noir

Leave the Cat Alone, Boy! “Pierrot and the Cat”, 1889, a painting by Théophile Steinlen, the Swiss artist and adherent of Art Nouveau, who was a lively presence in the cultural life of Paris, not least thanks to his collaboration with the famous cabaret Le Chat Noir

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Time magazine covers predicting global cooling (1973-1979) and global warming (1987-2007)

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"Bathing of a Red Horse" by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and a print from the 2005 "Mazda Masterpiece" advertisement

Archive · Books · Mores · Saint Petersburg

Once, Without Any Warning, Mandelstam Turned Up at the Merezhkovskys'

Once, without any warning, Mandelstam turned up at the Merezhkovskys'. Zinaida Gippius came out to him and said that if he wrote good poetry, she would be informed of it; then she would talk to him, but for the time being there was no point, since nothing ever came

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