NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Observations · New York · Humour
It seems the Metropolitan Museum's holdings have yielded the answer to how a centaur wears trousers after all, courtesy of a bronze statuette of a centaur and a man from 750 BC. Or is this the wrong sort of centaur?
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
From 1 July to 23 August, the Museum of Russian Impressionism is holding an exhibition, "Yury Annenkov. Revolution at the Door". It is a rare chance to see in one place paintings from the Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, the
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Ethnography
Since such fairy-tale goings-on are afoot, a reminder that from today you can visit the exhibition "The Russian Fairy Tale" at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. The display brings together classic works on fairy-tale subjects, contemporary art, sculpture and media: a veritable journey through
Museums · Science · People · Nature
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Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg
Today: a lecture on Dürer by Roman Grigoryev, Head of the Department of Western European Prints at the Hermitage. Do join in, if you like: https://likadlugach.timepad.ru/event/1339706/ He gave a splendid lecture on Bruegel earlier, which I ought to have shared as well. But that is
Art · Monarchies · Museums · New York · Society
Americans pulling the gilded equestrian statue of King George III from its marble pedestal after the reading of the Declaration of Independence on 6 July 1776 in Bowling Green Park, Manhattan. The lead statue was toppled at the second attempt, broke into pieces, and was melted down for bullets. The
The East · Art · Museums · Observations · Mores
Do you remember the porcelain decanter in the shape of a fish, with little fish-shaped glasses, found in so many Soviet interiors? We have such a fish at home too, inherited from my grandmother, and in two colour variations at that; it was mass-produced at the porcelain factory
Architecture · Geography · Cinema · Museums
Orava Castle is a medieval fortress in Slovakia, perched on a 112-metre rock above the little River Orava. It was here that the 1922 film "Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror" was shot. True, in the plot the castle stands in Romania. In 2015 the castle, which had
NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
Meanwhile, on the First Channel: a sumptuous concert for the 180th anniversary of the Pushkin Museum. They are showing an excerpt from Kirill Serebrennikov's ballet "Nureyev". I too should like Renata Litvinova at my birthday (And preferably without Shvydkoy
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums · New York
Rosary pendant with a crystal skull in a crown. 16th century. Probably connected with the Mexican cult of the dead. Metropolitan Museum
Museums · Nature
A Japanese spider crab in the collection of the Bexhill Museum in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. The museum itself is Edwardian in its modesty: it has just two members of staff, and its collection consists of the curiosities assembled by the museum's curator, John Sargent, together with
Art · Museums · New York · People
The Massachusetts artist Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982), an American of Dutch descent, began as a furniture decorator but fairly soon found his subject: folk motifs featuring mermaids. With the help of one of his clients, the celebrated philanthropist and patron of the arts Joan Whitney, Cahoon introduced his work to