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Archaeology · Faith · Art · New York
A Landmark Event for the History of Art and Culture and for Collectors Alike
A landmark event for the history of art and culture and for collectors alike. The oldest known tablet bearing the “Ten Commandments” from the Book of Exodus has been sold at Sotheby's in New York, fetching twice its pre-sale estimate. The artefact is considered the only surviving
Art · Books
René Magritte's paradoxical series "The Empire of Light": a bright daytime sky above a night-time landscape of houses and trees
The series comprises no fewer than 17 works, titled for the most part "The Empire of Light", together with "God's Drawing Room" and "Luck". By various estimates, as many as 27 paintings are counted in the series. They were painted over many
NB! · Art · People
Armchair in the form of ginkgo biloba leaves by the French designer and Surrealist artist Claude Lalanne (1924–2019)
NB! · Art · Observations · Humour
Shall we ask Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti whether he had extraterrestrials in mind when he painted this picture?
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums
The Bracelet of Ramesses II with Ducks
Archive · Art · Humour
To Caw or Not to Caw?
An open letter. Drawing by Valery Carrick (1869 – 1943)
Art · Moscow · Museums
The Fire of Moscow in 1812, Unknown Artist
Collection of the Museum of Moscow
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Gold ring with an image of a bird in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum
Scythian gold ring with a flying duck, 4th century BC, from the Chertomlyk kurgan. Collection of the State Hermitage Museum
NB! · Art · People
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) and Alexander Tyshler (1898–1980)
Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
The Multimedia Art Museum continues to honour the legacy of our distinguished contemporary Erik Bulatov, this time with the opening of the exhibition "A Marvellous Journey" by Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev, spanning thirty years of joint work…
Here is how the curators describe the exhibition: For the representatives of unofficial Soviet art, illustrations for children's books were not only a means of earning a living but also a space of creative freedom. Art for children was censored more gently, and for the Conceptualist artists the
NB! · Art · People