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A remarkable, vivid and absorbing exhibition, "Threads", has opened at the Ruarts Foundation
A highly representative, almost textbook selection of artists who work with textiles in every conceivable form, as the exhibition's curator Nina Gomiashvili writes in her foreword, took as its point of departure Hans Christian Andersen's nettle coats of mail, but has grown into a museum-grade
NB! · Architecture · Art · Paris
Octopus in the decor of the main entrance of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris
The octopus decorating the main entrance of the Oceanographic Institute in Paris. Dedicated to lovers of Art Nouveau
NB! · Society · Pop Culture · Rome
On the eve of the Italy v Spain match at Euro 2024, supporters of the Italian national team unfurled an Italian shirt, apparently of American size, on the Spanish Steps in Rome
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I do not know who first devised this design, but I support it wholeheartedly
NB! · Faith · Observations
Thank God, Another Day Has Dawned
NB! · Monarchies · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages
Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov-Hohenzollern, one of the claimants to the headship of the Russian Imperial House, at the opening of the exhibition “The Magazine of the Beautiful Life” at the Museum of Russian Impressionism
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society Pages
AZ/ART Centre of Contemporary Art opens in Moscow with the exhibition “Non-Obvious Intersections”
Another serious cultural institution has appeared on the map of Moscow: the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art. The centre is housed in a historic seventeenth-century building on Maroseika. Its opening is marked by an exhibition, a joint project with the Foundation of the composer Nikolai Karetnikov, entitled "
Aristocracy · Archive · Books · Monarchies
Ivan VI in a 1763 genealogical table and his imprisonment at Kholmogory and Shlisselburg
The Genealogy of Peter III from Goudar's Book of 1763. The most intriguing thing in this document is the mention of Ioann Antonovich, or Emperor Ivan VI, a second cousin once removed of Peter III. At the time of this book's publication, 1763, Ivan VI, confined
Art · Books · Saint Petersburg
Dmitry Kedrin's poem “Beauty” about Russia, 5 September 1942
"1918 in Petrograd" and "Our Lady of Tenderness Towards Evil Hearts", Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Beauty These proud brows of Vincian Madonnas I have met more than once on Russian peasant women, On young Ryazan wives, bent double with toil, Threshing sheaves on the threshing-floor at
Archive · Mores · Saint Petersburg
Restaurant coupon for 20 kopecks from the Stray Dog cafe in Saint Petersburg, 1912
A restaurant coupon of 20 kopecks from the Saint Petersburg literary café "The Stray Dog Cellar. Mikhailovskaya Square, 5", 1912. Officially, the Stray Dog was called the "Artistic Society of the Intimate Theatre", and in this literary and artistic café the key Petersburg figures of the
Art · Observations · Humour
"A New Life Begins" or "Dante and Beatrice in the Garden"
Painter: Cesare Saccaggi, 1903 If anyone has been wanting to begin a new life, why not today? Even without Beatrice.