Dark cast-iron post with an ornate capital and two rosettes at the corner of a stone building. A yellow gas pipe and a grey drainpipe run beside it.

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Cast-iron post with relief decoration at a building corner beside a yellow gas pipe

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage

A splendid cast-iron post of the mid-nineteenth century in Bryusov Lane, all that remains of the old estate that once stood on this spot

A splendid cast-iron post of the mid-nineteenth century in Bryusov Lane, all that remains of the old estate that once stood on this spot. Only recently the post was carefully restored by the lads from “Vspomnit Vse”, for which they have our gratitude and respect

NB! · Art · Observations

Today's catches: the modest figurines of the Kukryniksy, a rethinking of Rembrandt's graphic work in the sculptures of Dmitry Gutov, the amusing trinkets of Vlad Yefimov and the paper artefacts of Yasha Kazhdan

A desktop all-in-one computer with a blue video frame on screen sits on a dark parquet floor, with a keyboard and mouse. Beside it is a faux-brick object with a power strip.

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All-in-one computer playing video on the floor of an exhibition space

NB! · Coming Up · Art · Society Pages

At In Artibus, a second opening of Maxim Boxer's exhibition "A Collector's Dreams", which we viewed together at the very start of the lockdown

At In Artibus, a second opening of Maxim Boxer's exhibition "A Collector's Dreams", which we viewed together at the very start of the lockdown. A few works and accents have been added to this new reading. In short, welcome

A small watercolour of a bay and mountains in a frame with gilt patina; a wall label reads Maximilian Voloshin, Koktebel. Bay, 1931, paper, watercolour, pencil.

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Maximilian Voloshin, Koktebel. Bay, 1931, watercolour in a frame on display

A long pipe with a curved stem and painted bowl hangs diagonally on a pale wall. A flowered porcelain plate sits at left, a porcelain figurine of a lady at right.

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Long smoking pipe on the wall of a museum display

NB! · Cinema · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

Why the ring straight away?

Why the ring straight away? Better we destroy Pendalf's gizmos

A man in chain mail and a dark tunic with a white cross stands by a bed, holding a small object. A woman reclines on a couch; draped curtains and candles behind.

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Knight in a cross-emblazoned tunic beside a reclining woman, black-and-white film still

NB! · Observations

But Really, God Forbid, of Course

Four drawings of a centaur with a male torso wearing blue jeans in different ways: on the human part, the horse part, or the whole body. Caption: How would a centaur wear pants?

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How a centaur might wear pants: four digital illustrations

NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Observations · New York · Humour

It seems the Metropolitan Museum's holdings have yielded the answer to how a centaur wears trousers after all, courtesy of a bronze statuette of a centaur and a man from 750 BC

It seems the Metropolitan Museum's holdings have yielded the answer to how a centaur wears trousers after all, courtesy of a bronze statuette of a centaur and a man from 750 BC. Or is this the wrong sort of centaur?