Art · Humour

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Faith · Observations · Society · Paris · Humour

The Vatican's refusal to the Élysée Palace and Macron at the final Mass of Leo XIV

I Don't Care for Such Familiarity, but What Will the Pope Say? On 18 September the Vatican declined several protocol proposals from the Élysée Palace, including the Legion of Honour and a visit to Notre-Dame. On 25 September Leo XIV publicly reprimanded Macron: war, euthanasia, the abandonment

Observations · Humour

Participants in a conversation discuss the fate of Russia

What are they talking about? What else but the fate of Russia?

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Humour

I fail to understand why Moscow needed a monument to Luzhkov, when we already have the Nautilus shopping centre, the Parus residential complex and the Patriarch residential complex?

Humour

"Shall we not read this idiotic news?" "Let's not."

NB! · Architecture · Humour

How About a Flat with a Games Room in Your Very Own Late Seventeenth-Century Dungeon?

Books · Mores · Humour

You must have decent, well-dressed children, and your children must in their turn have a good flat and children, and their children too must have children and good flats, and what it is all for, the devil only knows

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

NB! · Art · Observations · Humour

What does Titian say to Cardinal Filippo Archinto?

What does Titian say to Cardinal Filippo Archinto? Quite right: I'll finish it later

Moscow · Observations · Humour

Anna Garnova Is Altogether Too Beautiful for a Mayor's Wife

Anna Garnova is altogether too beautiful for a mayor's wife. But for a governor's lady or a chamberlain's consort she would do very nicely. The scene after Khlestakov's proposal, with Andrey Mezhulis and Evdokia Kareva, from Yevgeny Marchelli's The Government

Observations · Humour

A free chronological clarification, no thanks necessary

upd. the seller not only failed to thank me but declined to take it on board, leaving the advertisement exactly as it was; he is still wavering over which century the 18th actually is

Four bearded male faces lean over a table against white concentric circles, a hand pointing at five holes on the green surface.

Art · Humour

A 1984 painting by the Mexican artist Alfredo Castañeda

Ha, very witty. The Mexican artist Alfredo Castañeda (1938-2010), 1984

NB! · Architecture · Observations · Humour

Soviet utilitarian industrial architecture looks better than any modern developer's project

Soviet utilitarian industrial architecture looks better than any modern developer's project. Do you know why? Because even this garage has a soul, unlike your residential complexes