NB! - The Parnassian (Page 3)

Close-up of a black wrought-iron gate with plant ornament and a heavy hinge set into a white wall. Beyond the bars are a colonnaded building and a flower bed.

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Wrought-iron gate with floral ornament and hinge on a whitewashed wall

NB! · Coming Up · Moscow

"Black Blizzard" by the Brusnikin Troupe at the Praktika Theatre

NB! · Archive · Architecture · Saint Petersburg

The Anichkov Bridge in the 1870s

NB! · Interviews · Books · Society Pages

In a few minutes, in the assembly hall of the Peredelkino House of Creativity, our conversation with Marcello Simonetta about his new book "The Furious Farnese" will begin

Detail of an old icon: a seated woman with a halo, in golden robes, nurses an infant. Behind her hangs a scarlet curtain; a patterned coverlet lies below.

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Icon detail: a haloed woman nursing an infant before a red curtain

Pale facade with arched windows, stucco ornament and a rusticated base above a brick wall with round openings. Tree shadows fall across part of the wall.

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Mansion facade with stucco ornament and arched windows in low evening light

NB! · Observations

So This Is My Polling Station

Expressive thick-brushed painting in a dark frame: a white-haired man in a blue and red uniform, beside a distorted face with red lips and a raised finger. A wall label is at right.

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Bernhard Heisig’s painting Fritz and Frederick II on display

NB! · Architecture · Observations · Humour

Soviet utilitarian industrial architecture looks better than any modern developer's project

Soviet utilitarian industrial architecture looks better than any modern developer's project. Do you know why? Because even this garage has a soul, unlike your residential complexes

A balding man in glasses, a tan suede jacket and jeans holds a roll of paper and gestures as he speaks. Behind him are a green wall, a painting and a coat on a rack.

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Man in a suede jacket speaking in a green exhibition room

In a white gallery room hang abstract paintings, one with a text line. A wooden table on figure-shaped legs stands in front; a figure of a man in a gray hoodie and black trousers is in the c

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Gallery space with paintings, a carved wooden table and a male figure

NB! · In the Press · Interviews · Art · Society

The president of the La Biennale foundation, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, said in a recent interview with Corriere della Sera that he would readmit Russia to the Biennale all over again, and considers his actions right and proper; as for the regulations…