NB! · Art · Pop Culture
Section
· 3401 stories
Art
NB! · Art · Humour
The Shortest Lecture on the History of Art
NB! · Archive · Art · People · Humour
Alexander the Great in a Submarine
NB! · Art
Theodor Pištěk's painting “Family Portrait” of 1975
Family Portrait. Teodor Pištěk, 1975
Art · Books · Humour
Thereupon the Town Governor took off his own head and handed it to me
Thereupon the Town Governor took off his own head and handed it to me. Examining the box lying before me more closely, I found that it contained, in one corner, a small barrel organ, capable of playing certain simple pieces of music. There were two such pieces: “I'll
Art · Observations · People
Painting by Franz von Stuck, one of Kandinsky's teachers, recalls cave art
The Wild Hunt, 1890. My favourite among the works of the remarkable Bavarian artist Franz von Stuck, incidentally one of Kandinsky's teachers at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. The elongated horizontal canvas, the arrangement of the figures and the dark colours make the picture resemble cave art.
Art · New York · Society
Christie’s sums up the first half of 2025: revenue of $2.1bn, in line with the same period last year
Christie’s has sums up the first half of 2025: revenue came to $2.1bn, in line with the same period last year. As Christie’s chief executive Alex Rotter noted, the steady results were driven by increased demand for the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The most
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Heritage
Ancient mosaic taken from Italy during the war returned to Pompeii Archaeological Park
Even 80 years after the end of the Second World War, stolen works of art continue to return to their rightful owners. Among the recent high-profile cases of restitution is the return to the granddaughters of the Viennese collector Adalbert Parlagi of Claude Monet's painting "The
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg
Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art
Fresh impressions of the new exhibition at the Horse Guards Manege in Saint Petersburg, "Photographic Art. From the Daguerreotype to Artificial Intelligence". The exhibition is very large: one can wander happily for several hours, for it occupies two floors of the Manege. It opens with the very first
Faith · Art · Books · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The Khludov Psalter, a ninth-century Byzantine manuscript in the State Historical Museum
The Khludov Psalter, created in the mid-ninth century, has been recognised as a UNESCO monument and inscribed in the Memory of the World International Register. The Khludov Psalter is an outstanding work, and one of only three early monuments of Byzantine art to have survived to our day. It
NB! · Art · Museums · Observations · Humour
I cannot describe the feeling with which the museum attendant learned that the figure in Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe's photograph is a man in disguise
I cannot describe the feeling with which the museum attendant learned that the figure in Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe's photograph is a man in disguise. Thank you, Lord, that naivety still lives among people, and a truly holy simplicity
Archive · Art · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg
The Imperial Family of the Russian Imperial House in Alexander Eikhov's photograph of 1867, showing Alexander II with his wife, children, brothers and nephews, one of the first examples of photomontage in the history of photography
The Imperial Family of the Russian Imperial House in Alexander Eikhov's photograph of 1867, showing Alexander II with his wife, children, brothers and nephews, is one of the first examples of photomontage in the history of photography. All the figures were photographed separately. Moreover, as Alexey Loginov, curator