Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
The historic sign of a colonial goods shop in Paris, at 14 rue Mouffetard. The white woman, incidentally, contrary to first impressions, is pouring a drink for the dark-skinned figure, and not the other way round. In the 2010s the sign began to suffer at the hands of city
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
The history of the colour black is the history of humanity's transformations: its fears, the mechanisms of power it has built, its spiritual quests and the aesthetic revolutions that continue to this day. The project "The History of Black" at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, curated by
The East · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage
Two men bought tickets to the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, walked up to a display case and smashed the protective glass with a hammer. They pulled out a diamond necklace and vanished in an unknown direction. They made no attempt to hide their faces, so the surveillance cameras
Archaeology · Museums · Observations · Heritage
Fifty-nine objects, ten kilograms of gold and almost seven hundred grams of silver, which lay in the bed of a dried-up river near Alicante from the thirteenth century BC until December 1963, when the archaeologist José María Soler found them, survived three thousand three hundred years, a civil
Archaeology · Museums · Science
The Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Historical Museum are working for a seventh season at the Gnezdilovo burial ground near Suzdal. This year they found a wooden burial chamber measuring 3.1 by 2.7 metres, the roof of which had collapsed by
Art · Books · Moscow · Museums
Tretyakov Gallery collection
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Just think: the Polytechnic Museum has been closed since 2013, so one might say an entire generation of visitors has been denied the chance to set foot in this unique building. Does anyone have any notion of when the museum will reopen in its native home, or, more precisely, whether
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums
Art · Museums · Observations · Humour
"Smell", Jan Miense Molenaer, 1637. Collection of the Mauritshuis I do, of course, understand that with his series of the five senses the Dutch master, with his characteristic humour and earthy realism, invites us to forget about lofty allegories and maidens with bouquets of flowers, but even so,
Archaeology · Museums · Education
In Norway, beneath the Grønhaug mound, 30 metres across and 4 metres high, on the island of Karmøy, an oak ship some 15 metres long was buried. This has been known since the excavations of 1902. In August of this year, archaeologists of the Museum of Archaeology at the University
Art · Museums · Heritage · New York
In February 1961, the loss of Picasso's Femme dans un fauteuil of 1918 was discovered at the student union building of the University of Pittsburgh. Painted by Picasso on his honeymoon with Olga Khokhlova near Biarritz, the picture had been lent to the university by the Guggenheim Museum
Archaeology · Museums
A stone bearing a runic inscription, set into the floor of a building around the year 1000 in the Faroe Islands. The inscription is poorly legible; all that can be made out is "her hvilur", "here lies", which is to say that it is most probably