NB! · Architecture · People

British architect Sarah Wigglesworth shows what the Christmas atmosphere looks like from an architectural point of view

NB! · Art · Humour

"What Is This, Madame?" "It Is Called 'Art'"

NB! · Faith · Ethnography

16 December: the Feast of the Housing Saviour

NB! · Observations

Or at Least Magic Realism

Nine square paintings of large faces in orange, blue, yellow, black and other colours hang on a tall white wall above an entrance. A security guard and stanchions are visible below.

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Nine colourful painted faces on the wall of a museum lobby

NB! · Aristocracy · Architecture · Moscow · Mores

A Salon at the Arkhangelskoye Estate in the 1890s

Line drawing of two lions flanking a column at the Mycenae citadel gate, with a scale bar up to 1 metre.

NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Art · Science

Lions of the Mycenae Citadel's Main Gate, 13th Century BC, Looked Backward and Had Heads of Another Material

It turns out that the famous lions over the main gate of the Mycenaean citadel, dated to the mid-13th century BC, were in fact looking backwards, not at one another. It is also thought that the lions' heads, which have not survived, were made of a different material,

NB! · Cinema · Books · Pop Culture

Johnny Depp to Film The Master and Margarita

Johnny Depp is to film The Master and Margarita. It is also known that Depp will play the lead in the first English-language screen adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel

NB! · Art · Monarchies · People

Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Emperor of the Romans, drawing by Pierre Joubert

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The Russo-Italian artist Paolo Troubetzkoy, Pavel Petrovich, not only created touching sculptures of animals, but was also a committed vegetarian

Workers in orange vests and a van by the kerb with black bollards, and a stone building with a gilded wrought-iron fence on the right.

NB! · Observations · Heritage · Paris · Humour

Protective barriers installed along the roadway beside the Apollo Gallery at the Louvre

It has taken barely three hundred years, but the Louvre has installed protective barriers along the roadway beside the Galerie d'Apollon. Robbers will no longer be able to park beneath the windows. A small victory, but at what a price!

NB! · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

Thanks to the Russian Museum for "The Red Jew"

Thanks to the Russian Museum for "The Red Jew". A Chagall exhibition has opened at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts