NB! · In the Press · London · Society · Humour

Someone will object that the freedom to talk nonsense is not the same thing as freedom of speech, but according to the newspaper Metro, people refuse to accept that the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is not a nineteenth-century cross-dressing prosti

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The new issue of Elle France carries a major interview with Annie Leibovitz

The new issue of Elle France carries a major interview with Annie Leibovitz. Solène Delos spoke to Annie on the occasion of her being awarded the William Klein Prize and the opening of Leibovitz's exhibition at the Académie des Beaux-Arts

NB! · Architecture · Mores

Continuing the theme of metal beds in the interior

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Incidentally, one fact is often left out of the account: the younger sister of Lilya Brik (1891-1978) was another remarkable woman of the twentieth century, the writer Elsa Triolet (1896-1970), wife of Louis Aragon

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Alphonse Mucha snaps Paul Gauguin playing the harmonium in his studio without trousers

Close-up of a marble statue whose hands hold a foot, with a bust of a bearded man visible behind it in a museum gallery.

NB! · Archaeology · Art

The sculptural subject “Boy Removing a Thorn”, known since the 3rd century BC

Art That Makes You Feel: The Boy Removing a Thorn. A subject known since the 3rd century BC.

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Sir, Kindly Flail Your Arms Elsewhere

Sir, kindly flail your arms elsewhere. Adrien de Lelie, 1792.

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When you invent a reason to start working ☹️

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Well, well, what have we here?

Well, well, what have we here? A catalogue of unicorns, I see. I trust you have at least a two-horned one in stock?

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev in His Youth

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Models of Old Paris, including a model of the Île de la Cité as it stood in the sixteenth century, made in the early twentieth century by the topographical artist Gaston Renault

NB! · Observations · Heritage · Humour

If you feel like exclaiming with a smirk: "So we have finally run out of ruins of our own!" or asking who is footing the bill, recall last year's news about the restoration of a UNESCO monument, which said that the project involved sponsorial…