NB! · Art · Humour
An art object in the style of the "Apocalypse Quilted Jackets" by the Krasnoyarsk artist Vasily Slonov has become a dessert at the local restaurant Tunguska. The pieces of cotton wool are inedible. The dessert proper, the blade of the knife, is made of ice cream with white
The East · Art · Humour
A Christian-Arab game of chess. Al-Andalus, 13th century. If Black's move is H2, White has a fair chance of drawing the game. Failing that, we are left with victory in the Reconquista, which is not at all bad either.
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The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Singing Angels. Simon Marmion, "Hours of Jean de Gros", between 1474 and 1484
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In the paintings and portraits of Giorgione there is often a mysterious figure, or several, as in this portrait of a warrior of 1505 from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Who is this sinister stranger, peering so intently into the warrior's face? Why does he hold the man&
NB! · Art · Moscow
Ballet in the open air at Patriarch's Ponds. Moscow 🩷
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The Sun and the Moon await the coming of Christ. Their faces suggest that they know exactly how you spent the summer. This full-page fifteenth-century miniature illustrates one of the signs preceding the Last Judgement. The medieval tradition of giving the Sun and the Moon human faces is
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Bulgakov and Akhmatova were not friends. Having met in 1933 at the artist Nikolay Radlov's, they saw each other only a few times, when Akhmatova came to visit the Bulgakovs. By all appearances there were no more than seven meetings. Even so, in that short time Akhmatova did
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EKONIKA has produced a genuinely stylish stand with very handsome details; I at once had an immersive experience of wielding a silver hammer, but alas, this art object proved to be an integral part of the installation "Through the Looking-Glass of the Shoemaker's Craft", created
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Lev Povzner's surrealism on the stand of the Alina Pinsky Gallery. A year ago Povzner had a large exhibition, and I wrote about it in this text; today, I think, it remains just as relevant
Art · Moscow · Society Pages
The Cosmoscow contemporary art fair is under way in Moscow, and Sber is among its more conspicuous participants. The bank has presented two spaces: an open lounge and a private one for clients of Sber Private Banking. In the first space, pride of place goes to an installation by the