NB! · Coming Up · Art · Museums · Saint Petersburg

The Russian Museum resumes tours in Russian Sign Language on Sundays at 13:00 in the Benois Wing, devoted to Serov, Vrubel, Kandinsky, Larionov, Goncharova, Malevich and Filonov, and in the Ludwig Museum in the Marble Palace

NB! · Observations

It Turned Out Atmospheric

NB! · Cinema · Observations

Meanwhile, Anya Chipovskaya reports that the release of the long-awaited film "Has Anyone Seen My Girl?" has been postponed until next year owing to the state of affairs in the country's cinemas

Meanwhile, Anya Chipovskaya reports that the release of the long-awaited film "Has Anyone Seen My Girl?" has been postponed until next year owing to the state of affairs in the country's cinemas. A great pity, but what can one do 🐥

NB! · Observations · Society · Humour

An Interesting Monument to the Soviet Authorities and to Mikhail Gorbachev Personally in the Stanitsa of Golubitskoye: A Path Resembling End-Grain Parquet, Made from Oak Vine Stakes Cut Down in the Years of the Dry Law

A wine cellar with wall niches holding thousands of dark bottles with paper labels on the shelves.

NB! · Observations · Reportage

The author visited the wine cellars of Golubitskoye, which produces over a million bottles a year

Special thanks for allowing me to visit the wine cellars of Golubitsky, which supplies Russian tables with more than a million bottles of white, red, rosé and sparkling wine a year. I am sure that this location deserves the particular attention of artists and could become part of another art

Limestone slab with a seven-branched menorah in relief in a museum case. A ceramic amphora and jugs stand nearby, and reflections show on the glass.

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Gravestone with Jewish symbols, 8th century, in a museum display case

NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

A whole subculture has grown up around the Union of Salvation, and it is most entertaining to observe

A whole subculture has grown up around the Union of Salvation, and it is most entertaining to observe. And the jokes are good, as they say

NB! · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour

"Goodness, how lovely!" "Those are the fossilised droppings of a giant sloth"

NB! · Faith · Books · Society · People

The life of this hero of the 17th and 18th centuries can be read about in Marcus Rediker's book "The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist"

NB! · Books · Observations · People

I should never have thought that Elizabeth Bowen, author of naive novels about ingénues and the loss of illusions in the heartless, cruel world of the 1930s, could be so popular among the wa

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Now that is an interesting turn

NB! · Art · Museums

Save it as your phone wallpaper

Save it as your phone wallpaper. “Pissing Death” or “Death at the Water” by Max Klinger, the founder of the gloomy school of graphic art and a neoclassicist, 1880, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig.