NB! · Art · Paris · People
Latest
Science · Palaeontology · Nature
Cambridge study links the Cambrian explosion to the rise of sexual reproduction
The first animals are thought to have appeared in the Ediacaran, some 635 to 539 million years ago, but then came millions of years of calm, until a sudden diversity burst forth. A study from Cambridge, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, tries to answer the question of where this
Archaeology · Science
Palaeogeneticists from the Autonomous University of Barcelona have studied the genomes of 54 Iron Age infants from the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula
Palaeogeneticists from the Autonomous University of Barcelona have studied the genomes of 54 Iron Age infants from the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula. The material was taken from settlements of the Iberians, a pre-Roman people of eastern Spain, within a chronological range of roughly 750 to 250 BC,
Archaeology · The East · Observations · Science · Society · Humour
Hominins at Gesher Benot Yaakov sourced basalt for tools from different lava flows
By right of the first. When political regimes justify their claims to some territory by length of tenure, one can always object that somebody other than them was there first. And somebody other than those first ones. And than them, too. If one is so inclined, one may go all
Architecture · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Restoration of the Grand Antechamber at the House of Radio in Saint Petersburg Completed, Preserving Several Eras
At Saint Petersburg's House of Radio, the restoration of the grand antechamber has been completed. The method chosen here is rather unusual: not a return to a single era, but a combination of different historical layers: pre-revolutionary, Soviet, perestroika-era and contemporary. Coffered ceilings, Pompeian-style murals,
Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
Shift Gallery opens a new space on Petrovsky Boulevard with the exhibition “Under Supervision”
Shift Gallery has opened a new space at 5c1 Petrovsky Boulevard. In a season when the news pours out nothing but closures, it is pleasant to see that the young and bold are, for a change, opening things and reopening them. The first exhibition is called "Under Observation"
Coming Up · Art · Museums · New York
Exhibition to reunite Mondrian's last two boogie-woogie works after over thirty years
MoMA announces "Mondrian Boogie Woogie", running from 21 March to 31 July 2027 and the first survey of Piet Mondrian's New York works. A Dutchman, one of the pioneers of abstraction and co-founder of De Stijl, the international association for non-representational art, Mondrian fled
Art · Cinema · Heritage · New York · Society
Gustav Klimt painted "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" in 1917 and had not finished it when he died in 1918
Gustav Klimt painted "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser" in 1917 and had not finished it when he died in 1918. The commission came from the wealthy Viennese Jewish Lieser family. For nearly a century the picture was known only from a black-and-white photograph of 1925: it vanished
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage
Theft of the Coțofenești gold helmet from a museum in Assen, its return and the sentencing
In January 2025 three robbers blew open a door of the Drents Museum in Assen in the Netherlands and made off with the golden helmet of Coțofenești and three bracelets. All the objects had been lent to the museum by Romania for the exhibition “Dacia: Empire of Gold and Silver”
Archive · Observations · Science
Talbot's salted paper, the first method of positive photographic printing on paper
Saw this photograph of the stallion Belyi from the 1880s and became curious about the "salted paper" or "salt paper" technique in which it was made. Salted paper is the earliest method of positive photographic printing on paper, invented by William Henry Fox Talbot at the
London · Museums · Heritage · Society
The famous Bayeux Tapestry, created in the eleventh century for Bishop Odo, brother of William the Conqueror, will leave France for an exhibition at the British Museum
Historically, the tapestry (in essence a piece of linen embroidery almost 70 metres long) has been kept in the Norman town of Bayeux as a monument to the Norman conquest of England. The other day a French court permitted the temporary transportation of this fragile relic to Great Britain, despite
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Faith · Art · Museums
Five exhibitions of 2026, from Renaissance Madonnas to a Viktor Kalinin retrospective
The Annunciation is the earliest good news in European culture, a message that came true in the flesh. This week, five exhibitions on a promise and its fate: an image made flesh, sketches for a church that was never built, a colossus shown through the most fragile of materials, and