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Austrian composer Artur Schnabel at the piano in an archive photograph
The trouble with the piano is that every good note lies between two bad ones. The Austrian composer Artur Schnabel In life, incidentally, it is much the same
Architecture · Art · Paris · Humour
Has everyone found Vera Mukhina's Worker and Kolkhoz Woman?
Painting by the French artist André Devambez, "The Paris World's Fair of 1937, View from the Eiffel Tower"
NB! · Art · Pop Culture · Humour
Cat armour in the photo is the work of Canadian artist Jeff de Boer
The Canadian artist Jeff de Boer is best known for making stylised armour for cats and mice. The very pieces shown in the photographs. Though the images of the armour are often passed off as photographs of a genuine historical artefact rather than the work of a contemporary artist
Archive · Books · Moscow · Humour
“I recall one peculiar literary evening, staged by the Futurists at the Polytechnic Museum
“I recall one peculiar literary evening, staged by the Futurists at the Polytechnic Museum. The literary evening was presided over by two Futurists: David Burliuk and Vasily Kamensky (...) To scandalise the bourgeois, the Futurists pulled off the following trick: David Burliuk was proclaimed the father of Russian Futurism, and Vasily
London · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Buckingham Palace unveils King Charles III's new cypher for documents and postboxes
Buckingham Palace has unveiled King Charles III's new cypher, "CIIIR", which will gradually appear on documents, government buildings, signs and pillar boxes. Tell me, am I the only one who looks at this cypher and thinks of Richard III rather than Charles? R is the first
Aristocracy · Art · Humour
Of course those are your own lips, Your Highness!
Maria Anna of Bavaria with a dog, portrait by Joseph Heintz the Elder, 1604
NB! · Books · Observations · Humour
To Read Until the Very Day of Judgement Is Not the Worst of Fates
Books · Education · People · Humour
Announcer Ilya Prudovsky wrote a poem for the 80th birthday of Ditmar Rosenthal
First it was great Dal, now great is Rosenthal. Yes, the language, as if out of spite, was clearly unlucky with Russians. There was Baudouin de Courtenay, and beside him, back to back, in Berlin Vasmer published long ago an etymological dictionary. Then came Barkhudaryan, his countryman Hovhannisyan. Every non-
NB! · Humour
A Young Man?
A young man? What young man?
NB! · Art · Moscow · Society Pages · Humour
Puffy chair by the design duo EdxxKat at the CosMoscow fair
Do take a seat and rest. What could be better, after the first day of the CosMoscow contemporary art fair, so rich in events, discoveries, impressions, enchantments and purchases, than a puffed-up little stool from the design tandem EdxxKat?
Art · Observations · Society Pages · Humour
Blazar young art fair opens with new galleries and artists and higher average prices
The blazar young art fair opened yesterday. By my impressions, it turns out a little different every year, and this year what struck me as new was the selection of galleries: some of the expected stands were missing from the pavilion, while others came as a surprise. The list of