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The East · Books · Nature
When you are old, Kala Nag, some rich Rajah will buy you from the Government for your height and good manners, and then you will have nothing to do; you will only wear golden earrings in your ears, a golden howdah (a kind of saddle) on your back and cloth
When you are old, Kala Nag, some rich Rajah will buy you from the Government for your height and good manners, and then you will have nothing to do; you will only wear golden earrings in your ears, a golden howdah (a kind of saddle) on your back and cloth
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Brightly coloured diptych with horses, cat-like figures and the word SALEM
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Two men and a child by a pile of straw with a sign reading “Quiet. Experiment in progress!”
Archive · Art · Moscow
The Gnezdo Art Group of Donskoy, Roshal and Skersis and Its Action at the VDNKh Exhibition
A Graph of History. The Gnezdo group, 1976. Gnezdo ("The Nest") was an art group founded by the artists Gennady Donskoy, Mikhail Roshal and Viktor Skersis, active from 1975 to 1979. The group took its name from the art action "Quiet! Experiment in Progress", staged at
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Paris
An Architectural Dialogue between the GES-2 House of Culture in Moscow and the Centre Georges Pompidou National Centre for Art and Culture in Paris
Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums
Tatyana Grigoryevna Nazarenko, Museum of the Revolution, 1989
The Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val
Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
At last, I have made it to Yury Zlotnikov's exhibition "Signal Systems" at the New Tretyakov Gallery
At last, I have made it to Yury Zlotnikov's exhibition "Signal Systems" at the New Tretyakov Gallery. It is most gratifying that Zlotnikov's personal notes are on show, explaining his method and offering a glimpse of his reflections on what a point is, for
NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums
Alexander Konstantinov's Objects at GES-2
Art · People
Stalin Reads a Newspaper
Georgy Rublev, 1935
NB! · The East · Monarchies · Moscow · Mores · People
Empress Masako of Japan has visited the Moscow kindergarten she attended as a child, having lived in the city from the age of two because her father, Hisashi Owada, was a diplomat posted to the Soviet Union
Archaeology · Architecture · Geography · Rome
The Karnak obelisk on Rome's Lateran Hill, brought to the city in 357
There are now about thirty genuine ancient Egyptian obelisks standing in the world; Egypt has eight, as many as Rome. The tallest stands on the Lateran Hill before the Basilica of St John the Baptist. It is an obelisk from the temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, raised in the