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“The Emergence of Substance” by Andrey Borisovich Grositsky, 1997
The Substance of Coralie Fargeat, 2024. and The emergence of the substance of Andrey Borisovich Grositsky, 1997.
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Art · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Humour
I know nothing about this magazine, except that its cover shows a Leningrad Porcelain Factory figurine, "Fire Horse", with its legs chipped off in exactly the same way as on an identical statuette I threw away a couple of years ago
I know nothing about this magazine, except that its cover shows a Leningrad Porcelain Factory figurine, "Fire Horse", with its legs chipped off in exactly the same way as on an identical statuette I threw away a couple of years ago. Can such coincidences happen, or has the
Art · Moscow · Museums
Boris Turetsky, 1958
and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, 1984 GES-2, exhibition “Square and Space”
NB! · The East · Art
Garlic made of stone, a work of the Chinese school of the 20th century
Garlic, stone. Chinese school. 20th century
Archive · Art · Paris
André Kertész photographed a concierge's dog in Paris in 1926
Good Morning! Photograph by André Kertész, The Concierge's Dog, 1926, Paris
NB! · Art · Moscow · Reportage
The Last Kosmoskovsky of the Day
NB! · Coming Up · Art
Bar Reck, Roman Sakin at XL Gallery
NB! · Art · Moscow · Society Pages · Humour
Photograph with Trump at the Lumière Gallery stand at Cosmoscow
The Trump idea was a good one, well done! Stand of the Lumière Gallery, Cosmoscow
NB! · Art · Observations · Society Pages
Today's Favourite Work from Cosmoscow: an Iron Laocoön by Vilgeny Melnikov at the Pop-Up Gallery Stand
Today's favourite work from Cosmoscow: an iron Laocoön by Vilgeny Melnikov at the Pop-Up Gallery stand. Melnikov works somewhere near Petersburg on experimental sculpture and is developing his own technique of hydroforming, the inflating of metal objects
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Irina Korina, Let Them Eat Cake series: ceramic éclairs on a plate
Art · Monarchies · Observations
The saying about pastries attributed to Marie Antoinette goes back to Rousseau
Irina Korina's charming works with éclairs on the Sistema gallery stand, devoted to Marie Antoinette's phrase "let them eat cake" But just in case, let me remind you that "If they have no bread, let them eat cake!" was attributed to the
Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Heritage
Colossi of Memnon at Thebes and the sound of the northern statue split by the AD 19 earthquake
The 18-metre Colossi of Memnon, guarding the entrance to the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep and depicting the pharaoh Amenhotep III, face east. Built of sandstone in 1350 BC in the necropolis of the city of Thebes. During an earthquake in the year 19 the northern colossus cracked, and from