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I Like Your Outfit Very Much, but I Have Very Bad Taste

NB! · Art · London · Museums · Mores · Humour

This 11-year-old English boy from 1660 has a very cool cap, even by modern standards

Black and white photograph of a woman in a long dress standing with her arms raised above her head beneath two caryatid statues of an ancient temple.

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Isadora Duncan at the Erechtheion Caryatid Porch on the Athenian Acropolis in 1920

Isadora Duncan and the female figures of the "Porch of the Caryatids" of the Erechtheion temple on the Athenian Acropolis. The photograph was taken in 1920, that is, two years before the wedding of the American dancer and Sergei Yesenin, to whom Duncan was married until 1924.

Two books on an orange background: on the left, a cover with a black-and-white photo of a man facing a sculpted head; on the right, a cover with a journal layout and text about the "new".

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Two Garage.txt books: on Herwarth Walden and on the "new" in art

NB! · Books · Observations · Education · Humour

The American professor of classics Bernard Knox once remarked that a few rides in Athenian taxis had given him a fresh appreciation of the Homeric chariot races

NB! · Art · Monarchies · Paris

Tureen with cabbage and crayfish from the silver dinner service of Louis XV, the work of the celebrated French goldsmith and engraver Jacques Roettiers III

NB! · The East · Cinema · Monarchies · Observations · Mores

The Netflix series “Blood, Sex and Kings” is rather good, only one would note that in 1523 the Tudors had no Oriental carpets on their floors, nor could they have had: such a treasure could be found only on a table

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Mood: Roast Capybara at the Last Supper

NB! · The East · Society · Pop Culture · Humour

English fans barred from Qatari stadium in full crusader regalia, but a good try

Black-and-white photograph of three mounted men in military uniform and caps, the middle one holding a banner.

NB! · Coming Up · Moscow · Museums

The State Historical Museum has launched a website on the history of the Cossack hosts

A Museum of the Cossacks will soon open in Moscow, and in the meantime the State Historical Museum has launched a website devoted to Cossack history, which sets out, year by year, facts about the Cossack hosts that have existed in the country. The information may not be the most

Black lacquered sculpture: a male and a female figure flank a mass of drapery, with a round central recess bearing a stamp. The paint has flaked, revealing pale material beneath.

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Sculptural group with two figures and a round recess for a clock movement

A dark-haired woman in glasses and a dark burgundy pajama top lies propped on pillows, looking aside. The blurred hands of another person are in the foreground.

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