Coming Up · Art · Museums · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
Why does everything most beautiful happen just before New Year? The exhibition “Beauty and Style. A History of Fashion Photography. From the Collection of the Still Art Foundation” at the Department of Contemporary Art of the State Hermitage Museum. It presents the photographers’ own prints by Erwin Blumenfeld, Horst P.
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Science · Society
The Museum of Moscow has a rather successful exhibition, "Take Away the Stuffed Fox", devoted to the local-lore movement and the canon. The organisers declare that the project is meant to dispel "the nostalgic aura around the museum of local lore". Suit yourselves. Many historians
Archive · Mores · Humour
If Death appears in the sky in a shroud, with a coffin under his arm, expect overcast skies. If the Pope, the king, the cardinals and the gentlemen are all in the jaws of a beast, expect heat. If, at the same time, there are also traffic jams of 9
London · Monarchies · Mores · People
There is a story about Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and her life in emigration. After the death of her own aunt, Maria Feodorovna, George V installed her daughter, his first cousin Princess Xenia, at Frogmore House, together with her numerous family and retinue, twenty-two persons in all. At that
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If we are to believe L.J. Clairian's "Researches and Medical Considerations on Men's Clothing" of 1803, this is what proper men's underwear ought to look like. Many authors would later cite his assertion on the harm of overly tight pantaloons, and
Books · Moscow · Observations · Society
A favourite initiative of Moscow's libraries: adopt a withdrawn book. The city portal lists the libraries and the books they are prepared to give away. The books are conveniently sorted by category, author and subject; you can choose a library on the map or simply search for the
The East · Observations · Society · People
So, on the subject of gender, nationality and politics. Kazakhstan is issuing commemorative collector's coins with face values of 100, 500 and 5000 tenge bearing the image of Nursultan Nazarbayev. The inscription on the coins reads: independent Kazakhstan, 30 years. Of course, in Cyrillic the phrase would look
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
The Garage Museum's Exhibition Plans for 2022 Do, Indeed, Make the Coming Year a Female One. In March a retrospective of Lydia Masterkova (1927–2008) will open, also showing works by Yefrosinya Yermilova-Platova and Eva Levina-Rozengolts. In the photograph by Igor Palmin: Masterkova during preparations for
The East · Observations · Mores · Nature · Ethnography
A man in Turkish dress feeds stray cats and dogs with meat. Anyone who has been to Istanbul in our own day knows that the tradition of kindness to animals lives on there still. Perhaps in someone's heart this picture will awaken mercy towards stray cats and dogs
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Incidentally, if you fancy it, you can telephone Proust. Though he is almost never at home
NB! · Books · Museums · Paris · People
Marcel Proust's fur-collared overcoat. It can be seen at the exhibition marking the writer's 150th anniversary at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris
Coming Up · Art · Moscow
Lest you get lost among portraits of theatrical figures, composers, playwrights and drawings by masters of the twentieth century no less famous, and sometimes more so, add to your collection of masterpieces, for the reproductions of the Arbat Courtyard are already forlorn on the refrigerator door. A Couple in White