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I assumed it was perfectly obvious that everyone must share my love of a sky thick with clouds
I assumed it was perfectly obvious that everyone must share my love of a sky thick with clouds. And it came as a positive shock to discover that some people prefer sunny weather. Even now I cannot understand it. But that is another story altogether… Glenn Gould, 1979 Illustration: CLOUDS
Art · Observations · Paris · Society Pages
The author visited two exhibitions on the way to dinner and described their atmosphere
I like that at many galleries in Paris anyone can look in on a private view: there is simply a sign on the door, "we're open! welcome!" On my way to dinner I visited two very charming exhibitions. No doormen, everyone in a good mood, standing
NB! · Faith · Art · Observations
In the Environs of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery
In the environs of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery. A painting by Levitan and my own recent photograph
NB! · Archive · Art · People
The Leap of the Dancer Palucca and Kandinsky's Graphic Scheme for the Photograph
NB! · Art · Maps · Books · Moscow · Museums
Engravings after Tilesius von Tilenau in the Atlas to Krusenstern's Voyage Around the World, 1813
Engravings after drawings by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau. From the “Atlas for the Voyage Round the World of Captain Krusenstern”, 1813. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Faith · The East · Art · Books · Ethnography
“The Hindus call the bull father, and the cow mother
“The Hindus call the bull father, and the cow mother. On their dung they bake bread and cook their dishes.” Dmitry Butorin. Illustration to Afanasy Nikitin’s Journey Beyond Three Seas. 1960
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg
Participants in the murder of Peter III carried the regalia at his second funeral in 1796
The second funeral of Peter III, 2 December 1796. Unknown artist (in all likelihood Italian). The image takes the form of a scroll 15.8 m long and 0.75 m wide. Against the background of the procession there stand out the tsar's rod and sceptre and the
NB! · Art · Nature
Natalia Goncharova, "Autumn
Natalia Goncharova, "Autumn. Park", 1909
Art · Books · Nature
A 1899 poem by Konstantin Balmont on the coming of autumn
The cowberries are ripening, The days have turned colder, And the cry of the birds Only saddens the heart. Flocks of birds are flying Away, beyond the blue sea. All the trees are glittering In their many-coloured attire. The sun laughs more rarely, The flowers have no fragrance. Soon
Archive · Art · Books · Observations · Humour
Raise your hand if you, too, can account for your early-morning awakening only by an assault of demonic swine hordes
Illustration from the 1463 book Speculum Historiale [The Mirror of History] by the medieval French chronicler Vincent of Beauvais
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Society
It is now fifty years since the bulldozers and water-sprinkler trucks rumbled away from the junction of Ostrovityanov and Profsoyuznaya Streets, but the memory of the USSR's chief exhibition of unofficial art, the so-called "Bulldozer Exhibition", lives o
It is now fifty years since the bulldozers and water-sprinkler trucks rumbled away from the junction of Ostrovityanov and Profsoyuznaya Streets, but the memory of the USSR's chief exhibition of unofficial art, the so-called "Bulldozer Exhibition", lives on, and interest in Soviet nonconformism only