NB! · Coming Up · Art · Museums · New York

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is showing what is probably the largest private collection of graphic art from the 1920s and 30s, including classics of the Soviet poster, outstanding women artists of the early century, the graphic art of post-revolut

NB! · Monarchies · Science

The Horseless Carriage, 1649

The horseless carriage, 1649. England. A self-propelled machine driven by clockwork. Devices of this kind were known at the courts of many European monarchs; in his time Peter I used something akin to such a machine in his mock processions.

NB! · Humour

When you have quite literally dressed to the nines in anticipation of meeting a proper fellow with a great deal of money

NB! · Observations

Imagine kissing such a loathsome thing for the sake of expediency and a welcoming tradition

NB! · Observations · Society · Humour

While @museumsnob and @KirillandhisFriends have received notice of their priority right to a free vaccination as workers in cultural institutions, I have been assigned to the sphere of TRADE AND SERVICES; thank heavens it was not the internal organs

NB! · Museums · Observations · Society · Humour

Quite right: if ration cards for sugar and butter are being brought back, one may as well book a museum visit by telephone, or better still, by telegraph

Pixel-art image of a man in a bowler hat on the corner of a pink building wall beside a wrought-iron street lamp.

NB! · Art · Cinema · Paris

Pixel portrait of Charlot as played by Charlie Chaplin on rue Charlot in Paris

Street art on Rue Charlot in the Jewish quarter of Paris. A greeting from the tramp Charlot, as played by Charlie Chaplin

Wooden daybed with a tall back, gilding and floral fabric on the apron; the seat shows rough canvas. Behind it a landscape screen, below a carpet and parquet floor.

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Antique daybed without upholstery in front of a painted screen

NB! · Observations · Humour

I am trying to get through a run of celebrations without sinking into drink, relying on nothing but the help of higher powers

Close-up of a glazed ceramic statuette: a bearded figure with wavy hair holds a curved staff. Columns and a glowing lamp are blurred in the dark background.

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Ceramic figure of a bearded man with a staff in evening light

A white automatic dispenser with a cross and the words “Holy water” in four languages, bearing an image of Christ, in a church beside wooden pews.

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Humour

Automatic holy water dispenser in the Church of Saint Catherine in Brussels

Church of Saint Catherine, Brussels. Witty, modern and, above all, effective. Amen

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

The most expensive, of course, is the collection of my rare works and letters at 433,000 roubles on Ozon

The most expensive, of course, is the collection of my rare works and letters at 433,000 roubles on Ozon. So far I cannot afford them myself 😂