Black and white photograph of a granite relief with four standing baboon figures in a museum display.

NB! · Faith · The East · Art · Museums · Paris · Nature

Relief of four baboons from the Temple of Amun at Thebes, Louvre collection

Baboons worshipping the sun. Stone relief from the Theban temple of Amun, Louvre collection

Art · Mores · Humour

A Handyman by the Hour, 1772 Style: The Lady of the House Feels a Sudden Yearning for the Chimney Sweep

Imagine watching this scene while gnawing the last of a beef bone at the bottom of the fireplace

Coming Up · Architecture · Art · Moscow

The winter Catalog contemporary art fair will be held in Moscow from 6 to 8 December

Now it is official: the winter |catalog| contemporary art fair will take place in Moscow from 6 to 8 December. Catalog is the only contemporary art fair in Russia organised directly by gallerists, and so the terms of participation differ from those of the usual commercial fairs. For instance, all

Stone head of a bearded man with wavy hair and closed eyes, a fragment of medieval sculpture against a brown background.

Faith · Art · Museums · Paris

Recently Found Medieval Sculpture from Notre-Dame at the Musée de Cluny

Head of Christ with closed eyes, 1230s. From the section of recently discovered medieval sculpture from Notre-Dame at the Musée de Cluny

Reverse of an old wooden panel with butterfly-shaped inserts, strips of canvas and a fragment of an old French paper label.

Art · Museums · Heritage · Paris

Annual inspection of the Mona Lisa by conservation specialists

The Louvre Shows the Reverse of the Mona Lisa. during the annual examination of the Mona Lisa to check its condition by the specialists responsible for the conservation of this masterpiece

Interviews · Art · Books

Camilla Gray's 1962 book on the Russian avant-garde published in Russian translation

V–A–C Press has published a translation of the monograph "The Russian Experiment in Art, 1863–1922" by the British scholar and researcher of the Russian avant-garde Camilla Gray. The book is one of the first Western studies of the Russian avant-garde and has become

Oval engraved portrait of a crowned woman in a fur wrap on a page of an old book, with a Dutch caption naming Anna Ioannovna.

NB! · Art · Monarchies · People

F. Setone's 1734 engraving with a portrait of Empress Anna Ioannovna

Portrait of the second Russian Empress, niece of Peter I and daughter of Ivan V, Anna Ioannovna, engraving by F. Setone. 1734

NB! · Art · People

Auguste Rodin: Listen, It's All in Your Hands

Art · Society · People

Los Angeles artist Alex Schaefer paints burning banks during the 2008 recession

Perhaps the chief hater of the American banking system has been found. The contemporary Los Angeles artist Alex Schaefer rose to international fame when, during the great American recession of 2008, he began painting fantastical, politically charged plein-air pictures showing bank branches on fire, major bank holding companies in

Art · New York · Society

Bank of America expects art to become more affordable after Trump's reelection

Bank of America in Flames, Alex Schaefer, Oil on Canvas. Bank of America has compiled a new report on the state of the art market. Despite the anxiety expected among art market participants over Trump's re-election, conditions for buying art are improving. As the report explains, in

NB! · Archaeology · Art

A Fresco from Pompeii and a Painting by Van Gogh

NB! · Art · Heritage · People

A very sad find: Gesina ter Borch, an artist of the Dutch Golden Age, drew her brother Moses, to whom death creeps up from behind a tree and rows towards in a boat, and her sister Elteken, whom death leads through a church