NB! · Art · New York · Humour
The Future of Mankind?
The future of mankind? By the American illustrator Reid Kikuo Johnson, cover of The New Yorker, October 2017
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Architecture · Monarchies · Moscow · Heritage
Monument to "the Most Pious, Most Autocratic, Great Sovereign, Our Emperor Alexander Alexandrovich of All Russia"
The monument to "the Most Pious, Most Autocratic, Great Sovereign, Our Emperor Alexander Alexandrovich of All Russia. 1881–1894", the work of the architect Alexander Pomerantsev and the sculptors Alexander Opekushin and Artemy Ober, was unveiled in Moscow beside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour on 30 May
NB! · In the Press · London · Monarchies · Observations
Cosmopolitan was explaining, two weeks ago, how we shall learn of the death of King Charles III
London · Monarchies · Observations · Society
Rumours of Charles III's death spread on Telegram, TikTok and Twitter in March without official confirmation
I don't understand why everyone on Telegram suddenly started posting about the death of King Charles III. Clearly, people want views, but there has been no official announcement of the monarch's death. Rumours that Charles was dead began circulating in earnest as early as 17 March.
The East · Art · Museums · Observations
A Painting by Vladimir Fyodorovich Stozharov, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts, at Arter, the Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art
It must be admitted that the display at the museum is rather peculiar: on the neighbouring wall, a couple of metres from Stozharov, hangs Dürer's rhinoceros, and a little further on, Bill Viola.
NB! · Aristocracy · London · Monarchies
Lord Great Chamberlain to Her Majesty from 1990 to 2022, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, husband of Rose Hanbury, who came under universal scrutiny amid the disappearance of the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, as her supposed rival and close friend of Pr
Monarchies · Society · People
Assassination of King George I of Greece in 1913 and the instability that followed
On 18 March 1913 King George I of Greece, who had ruled the country for 50 years, was shot dead. He was killed at the height of the military confrontation with Turkey, from which Greece had, over the years of George's reign, succeeded in winning back substantial territories.
NB! · Monarchies · Moscow · People
The Coronation of Nicholas II
Archaeology · Archive · Heritage · Humour
The oldest photograph of Stonehenge, taken in 1865, and the monument today
Stonehenge in 1865, in its oldest photograph. And Stonehenge today. Someone took the proverb about a time to gather stones rather too literally
NB! · Cinema · Humour
We've Arrived
We've arrived. Alfred Hitchcock
NB! · Observations · Humour
Imagination, the Moment You Lie Down to Sleep
NB! · Architecture · Faith