A folding stool with a black seat stands before a white plinth bearing a sculpture of a fallen warrior in a helmet with a sword, against a red museum wall.

NB! · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour

Folding stools for visitors to rest on have appeared in the Pushkin Museum galleries

Mobile chairs for visitors at the Pushkin Museum. So that, having sat down to rest, you need not fret that you have taken someone's workplace

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The Attire of Prince Charles and Princess Anne for the Coronation of Elizabeth II

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UNESCO plans to open a virtual museum of stolen artefacts

A hand wearing a pearl bracelet holds an open book on the folds of a turquoise silk dress trimmed with orange roses. Lace and pink bows are visible at the top.

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Painting detail: a hand holding a book on a turquoise silk gown with roses

NB! · Moscow · Observations

Moscow: A City of Contrasts

Huge canvas in a gilded frame on a red museum wall: a toga-clad man on a chariot drawn by white elephants, with soldiers, a chained captive and a youth holding a vase.

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Triumphal procession with elephants in a large painting in a gilded frame

Black and white photograph of a pavilion with two columns, a rectangular pool and a large urn on a pedestal before the entrance.

NB! · Architecture · Art · Paris

Carl Bergsten's Swedish pavilion at the 1925 exhibition that gave Art Deco its name

The Swedish Pavilion, built by Carl Bergsten, at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. It was the very title of this exhibition that gave the Art Deco style its name: from “arts décoratifs” in Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes

NB! · Paris · Pop Culture

Fashion Week in Paris

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Stereoscopic Photograph "Leo Tolstoy on the Terrace of His House at Yasnaya Polyana"

Miniature in an ornate border: a blue steam locomotive with golden wheels and colorful carriages before a Gothic castle, with people in bright robes nearby. A line of blackletter script runs

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Steam locomotive with carriages before a castle in medieval miniature style

NB! · Art · Books

Illustrations by Alice and Martin Provensen for the 1956 children's adaptation of the Odyssey and the Iliad

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