NB! · Art · Books
Section
· 3408 stories
Art
Art · Museums · Paris
Give me your portrait, I'll put it in the larder, so the children don't pinch the sweets
The Artist's Family, Noël Coypel, 1690. From the exhibition of works by Coypel from the Louvre's collection at the Grand Trianon
NB! · Faith · The East · Art
The Archangel Michael in China
Art · Humour
Falling from the Height of His Glory
Falling from the height of his glory. Caricature from the series "The History of Comedy". Auguste de Valmont, engraver Alois Senefelder
NB! · Architecture · Art · Moscow
Among the ceramic miniatures that adorn the hall of Borovitskaya metro station are tiles depicting electrical circuit diagrams, tractor cogwheels, car tyres, icebreakers, oil derricks, cosmonauts... jet aircraft, stars, fish, birds…
Art · Monarchies · Humour
Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte on which Goya later painted the head of Wellington
What a plump little horse in Francisco Goya's equestrian portrait of the 1st Duke of Wellington. It was originally a portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, but Goya later painted Wellington's head over Bonaparte's
Art · Monarchies · Humour
Commemorative medal: the Devil accompanies Napoleon, who sits backwards on a donkey
Inseparable friends, bound for Elba. Inscription on the reverse: we conquered in order to liberate the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Marquess of Wellington, Prince Schwarzenberg. 31 March 1814
NB! · Art · Moscow
Works from Yuri Zlotnikov's celebrated "Signal System" series, recently discussed by the art historian Andrei Yerofeyev, are on sale at the Cosmoscow fair, PopoffArt stand
NB! · Art
The G-Class Antiform of Vasily Kononov-Gredin
Archive · Art · Observations · Paris · Pop Culture
In 1948 Robert Doisneau secretly photographed passers-by at a gallery window with a nude painting
In 1948, the French photographer Robert Doisneau made a series of secret photographs of people who had caught sight of a nineteenth-century painting of a female nude in the window of an art gallery. Doisneau hid his Rolleiflex behind an antique chair, so that he was nowhere to be
Art · Moscow · Museums
Artist Vladimir Chernyshev to install a sundial in the courtyard of the Museum of Moscow
A vast sundial is to be installed in the inner courtyard of the Museum of Moscow by the weekend. The gnomon is of metal, the dial of tarmac. The author of the installation is the artist Vladimir Chernyshev. I shall not venture into the finer points of what this piece
NB! · Architecture · Art · People
Alphonse Mucha designed the Lord Mayor's Hall in Prague's Municipal House in 1912
In 1912 Alphonse Mucha was asked to decorate the Municipal House in Prague, with its concert hall, gallery, restaurants and several drawing rooms. The artist produced murals, decoration, textiles and sketches for furniture for one of the rooms, the Lord Mayor's Hall.