Art · Moscow · Museums

Boris Turetsky, 1958

and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, 1984 GES-2, exhibition “Square and Space”

Two pale garlic bulbs with dry stems on a white background.

NB! · The East · Art

Garlic made of stone, a work of the Chinese school of the 20th century

Garlic, stone. Chinese school. 20th century

Black and white photograph of a spotted dog on a window balcony beside a birdcage, with a lace curtain showing a female figure.

Archive · Art · Paris

André Kertész photographed a concierge's dog in Paris in 1926

Good Morning! Photograph by André Kertész, The Concierge's Dog, 1926, Paris

NB! · Art · Moscow · Reportage

The Last Kosmoskovsky of the Day

NB! · Coming Up · Art

Bar Reck, Roman Sakin at XL Gallery

Two photographs in black frames on a white wall; in the right one a woman lies on a desk beside a man on the phone, with an American flag behind.

NB! · Art · Moscow · Society Pages · Humour

Photograph with Trump at the Lumière Gallery stand at Cosmoscow

The Trump idea was a good one, well done! Stand of the Lumière Gallery, Cosmoscow

NB! · Art · Observations · Society Pages

Today's Favourite Work from Cosmoscow: an Iron Laocoön by Vilgeny Melnikov at the Pop-Up Gallery Stand

Today's favourite work from Cosmoscow: an iron Laocoön by Vilgeny Melnikov at the Pop-Up Gallery stand. Melnikov works somewhere near Petersburg on experimental sculpture and is developing his own technique of hydroforming, the inflating of metal objects

A ceramic sculpture of pastries on a pink stem, set on a blue-rimmed plate in front of a mirror in a dark wooden frame.

Art · Monarchies · Observations

The saying about pastries attributed to Marie Antoinette goes back to Rousseau

Irina Korina's charming works with éclairs on the Sistema gallery stand, devoted to Marie Antoinette's phrase "let them eat cake" But just in case, let me remind you that "If they have no bread, let them eat cake!" was attributed to the

In the Press · Art · Humour

Norman Rockwell's Painting "Picasso versus John Singer Sargent"

In 1966 it appeared on the cover of LOOK magazine

Art · Mores · People

Camille Claudel's sculpture “The Mature Age” and her break with Rodin

Camille Claudel's sculpture "The Mature Age" of 1899. The second photograph shows the original version of this work, dating from 1894. The artist's brother, Paul Claudel, described the piece thus: "My sister Camille, imploring, humiliated, on her knees, this superb, this proud woman,

NB! · Art · Observations · Pop Culture · Nature · Humour

A piglet in the 1578 work by Hans Hoffmann

Does anyone still remember the popular baby hippo? To my mind, the sweet piglet by Hans Hoffmann, 1578, is not one whit less charming. Though, is there a single young creature in the world that fails to melt the heart?

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