Archaeology · The East · Art · Museums · Paris
Stele of King Naram-Suen depicting his victory over the Lullubi. Down the mountain comes the routed army of the enemy, begging for mercy, while up the mountain climb Naramsin's soldiers, full of vigour. One of the outstanding monuments of Akkadian art, dating from around 2250 BC, though
Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall. The news calls the people who did it activists. Naturally, they have some political or moral justification for their demonstration. In principle, after all,
Aristocracy · Art · Museums · Humour
The composition, which recalls familiar religious subjects, is probably meant to lend an even more satirical tinge to the mockery of social conventions and of the excessive fussing over pets among the aristocracy.
Archive · Books · Museums · Ethnography
There is in the collection of the Pushkin Museum a photograph of 1898, taken in the Bogorodsky District of Moscow Governorate by Dr Alexander Zhivago, entitled "Three Peasant Women. Ryazan Slanting-Bellies". What on earth are these slanting-bellies? Saltykov-Shchedrin writes of the slanting-bellies in "
NB! · Museums · Observations · Society · Paris · Humour
Following her resignation, the Louvre's disastrous director has been appointed to a "new prestigious post" within France's G7 presidency. Personnel decide everything
Monarchies · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
The worst director in the Louvre's history replaced by Christophe Leribault, formerly president of the Palace of Versailles. French President Emmanuel Macron announced the appointment of the 63-year-old Leribault at a meeting of the Council of Ministers. Leribault is an art historian who has previously worked
NB! · Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris · Humour
Well, well: the Director of the Louvre has finally resigned. She wrecked whatever she could, and we may at least be thankful she did not burn the place down
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
A new selection of exhibitions in Moscow. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky” at the State Historical Museum, until 9 March 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Marc Chagall. The Joy of Earthly Gravity” at the Pushkin Museum, until 15 March 📌 The architect Sergey Choban’s exhibition “What We Have We
The East · Art · Museums · Humour
"The Gates of Paradise" is an exceptionally rare pair of Indian spectacles of the seventeenth-century Mughal era, whose lenses are carved not from glass but from a single enormous emerald, probably weighing more than 300 carats in its uncut state
Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Ekaterina Foundation on Kuznetsky Most: city centre, spacious bright halls, not a soul about, so why not go? Two exhibitions are currently running there, and I dropped in to have a look at Vilgeny Melnikov and Oleg Maslov with their walk, "The Garden Keeper". A pleasant, unassuming
Archaeology · The East · Art · Museums
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Thutmose IV, c. 1400 BC.
Listings · Moscow · Coming Up · Art · Museums
📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "From Beijing to Moscow: A Dialogue of Cultures" at the Tretyakov Gallery, until 23 February 📌 The exhibition "Will It Last Forever?" at the Shift gallery, until 28 March 📌 Andrey Kuzkin's exhibition "Not Here" at the pop/off/art