NB! · Architecture · Geography · Maps · Society · Rome

Marble maps charting the territorial growth of the Roman Empire, set up under Benito Mussolini on the walls of the Basilica of Maxentius, the last building of imperial Rome

NB! · Art

Madonna with the Sleeping Infant, Hans Baldung, 1515

NB! · Art

Cushions

Cushions. Albrecht Dürer

NB! · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris

Is there a better way to celebrate the centenary of Surrealism than an epoch-making exhibition at the Pompidou?

NB! · People

Mikhail Baryshnikov 💎

NB! · Cinema · Humour

We have Malena at home:

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

A Landmark Exhibition Devoted to Surrealism Is Under Way at the Centre Pompidou

A cream rotary telephone with a white lobster lying where the handset should be, and a braided cord.

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Salvador Dalí's Lobster Telephone alongside other kinds of telephone

Pay phone, phone with answering machine, mobile phone, oh yes, lobster phone. You are calling Salvador Dalí

NB! · Archive · Monarchies · People · Saint Petersburg

A rare photograph of Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, the future Emperor Nicholas II, in the uniform of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment of His Imperial Highness the Heir Tsarevich

A rare photograph of Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, the future Emperor Nicholas II, in the uniform of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment of His Imperial Highness the Heir Tsarevich. Saint Petersburg, Wesenberg & Co. studio, 1880s.

NB! · Observations · Humour

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

NB! · Cinema · Observations · Mores

I think many would be surprised, having booked a first-class ticket on the Titanic, to find themselves in a cabin like this rather than in a vast, gilded suite such as Rose's in James Cameron's film

NB! · Archive · Architecture · The East · Heritage

The walls of Constantinople on the shore of the Sea of Marmara in the Kumkapı district, photographed in the 1870s by the Assyrian-Armenian photographer Pascal Sébah and the Frenchman Polycarpe Joaillier