Coloured pencil drawing: a curtain made of hair strands, tiny nude figures among colourful strands of beads, grey stones, and a blue frame dotted with stars.

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Coloured pencil drawing of tiny figures with strands of beads against a starry sky

NB! · Art · Moscow

Masha Kolosovskaya's Ceramics at the Lobby Café in Gostiny Dvor

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The "Education and Career" Exhibition at the Gostiny Dvor

The "Education and Career" exhibition at the Gostiny Dvor. Entrance through Entrance 4

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I Want a Watch Like That

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The Queen of Sheba, miniature from the first illustrated manual of military engineering, Bellifortis by Konrad Kyeser, early 15th century

Green poster with a red-toned portrait of a person in a patterned knit hat holding an object. Text: Robert Garaev, Criminal Tatarstan 1970–2010s, Word of the Boy, 18+.

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Poster for readings of Word of the Boy: Robert Garaev, Criminal Tatarstan

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Girls of the Free French ambulance unit knitting between calls on the Italian front, 1944

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The Sign Is Called: Cherish Love

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A Stunning Picture!

A stunning picture! “Mont Blanc, Vue de la Serpe. Storm Effect”. Théodore Rousseau, 1834. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

NB! · Faith · The East · Art · Museums

A Crystal Reliquary in the Shape of a Fish on Legs, for the Relics of Mary Magdalene: Egyptian Work of the Sixteenth Century

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The mood of not going to school tomorrow, as I look at Edward Hopper's 1935 painting "House at Dusk"

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Pope Francis is unwell

Pope Francis is unwell. Today he asked an aide to read his address in his stead. The Vatican reports that after last week's audience the Pope went to hospital for diagnostic tests. And what is there to test, at 87, after all?