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When "Constantinople" Was Said Instead of "Istanbul"
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society Pages · Humour
A great many people at the opening of "Forward to Zlotnikov" at Ground Solyanka
Those who remember the exhibition "Zlotnikov. The Signal System" at the New Tretyakov Gallery will find that it differs from this one. At Ground Solyanka there is more painting, and there are sculptures that I, for one, am seeing for the first time, while documents and photographs are
NB! · The East · Cinema · Observations · Humour
The bishop's tent and the whole setting of the scene before the Russian host's battle with the Livonian dog-knights in the film "Alexander Nevsky" recall the pavilions of the Saracens, especially as the snow looks rather more like sand
Observations · Education · Society · Humour
As They Used to Say at School: Now a Question to Catch You Out
By way of illustrating the fruits of the finest education in the world, after ten or twenty years of the nosediving standards of television and the media
Observations · Mores · People · Humour
Sarah Bernhardt at Thirty, in Her Coffin
She is not dead. Merely asleep. Or rather, posing for a photograph in the character of a woman lying in a coffin. She died, after all, at 78. Until then she simply liked to lie in a coffin. And she had one installed at home as a bed. A fool
Observations · Science · Pop Culture · Humour
Kate Bush in a 1979 Photograph by Claude Vanheye and the Story of Wilhelm Reich
Kate Bush, photographed by the Dutch photographer Claude Vanheye in a car park in Amsterdam in 1979. The crocodile is not real. I know nothing about Kate Bush, except that she is a singer and in her day made, together with Terry Gilliam and some celebrated actors, a video for
Art · Paris · Nature · Humour
Théophile Steinlen’s 1889 painting “Pierrot and the Cat” and his link to the Paris cabaret Le Chat Noir
Leave the Cat Alone, Boy! “Pierrot and the Cat”, 1889, a painting by Théophile Steinlen, the Swiss artist and adherent of Art Nouveau, who was a lively presence in the cultural life of Paris, not least thanks to his collaboration with the famous cabaret Le Chat Noir
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Time magazine covers predicting global cooling (1973-1979) and global warming (1987-2007)
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"Bathing of a Red Horse" by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and a print from the 2005 "Mazda Masterpiece" advertisement
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The Best So Far on the Subject
The young Napoleon Bonaparte at his studies in Brienne (Jean Onfroy de Bréville, 1910). And the not-so-young Trump, who long ago stopped learning anything new.
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