NB! · The East · Society · Humour

So Atatürk turns his back on you as the money runs out

NB! · Archive · Moscow · Society

Dzerzhinsky Square during the days of the GKChP, 20–21 August 1991, photograph by Sergey Rusanov

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage

The Crucifix in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, painted before 1288 by the Italian painter Cimabue, was severely damaged in the Arno flood of 1966 and has been only partially restored

NB! · London · Society · Nature · Humour

The Retriever in the British Parliament Has Long Since Understood Everything About Everyone

NB! · Mores · Pop Culture · Rome · Humour

Syncretism Imperceptibly Shades into Idiocy: Katy Perry Tossed a Credit Card into the Trevi Fountain Because She Couldn't Find Any Small Change

Syncretism imperceptibly shades into idiocy: Katy Perry tossed a credit card into the Trevi Fountain because she couldn't find any small change. She might as well have gone for bitcoin

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Egyptian Might

A man steers a motorboat along a wide river, with two women in headscarves seated beside buckets and a basin full of red berries.

NB! · Archive · Geography · Nature · Ethnography

Women berry pickers in a boat on the Biryusa River near the village of Lugovaya, 1990

Women gathering Siberian berries on the River Biryusa, a tributary of the Angara. Near the village of Lugovaya in Krasnoyarsk Krai, 1990

Bathroom with a glass shower cabin on clawed feet, a wooden chest with a basin and a mirror in a carved frame.

NB! · Architecture · Observations · Humour

Glass shower cabin in a Guy Goodfellow interior and the question of its maker

A most worthy idea for the shower room. It remains to find out from Guy Goodfellow, the author of the interior, who makes such cubicles

Black-and-white photograph in an exhibition: a multistorey house with broken windows, a gap torn through the façade open to the sky, rubble below.

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Bomb-damaged townhouse with a gaping breach in its façade, black-and-white photograph

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Humour

My beloved Foreign Ministry is under the scaffolding again

My beloved Foreign Ministry is being cleaned again. In a couple of years it will be all white

NB! · Coming Up · Art · Education

If you are at Katalog, don't miss the stands of the HSE School of Design, the Shift gallery and Jessica

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Observations · Heritage · Paris