NB! · Art · New York
Yesterday at Sotheby’s in New York a self-portrait by Frida Kahlo entitled “The Dream” was sold for $54.7 million. The sale set a record price for a painting by a woman artist, surpassing the previous maximum of $44.4 million for “Jimson Weed” by the American artist
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New York's odious mayor and his wife have already managed to publish a children's book about themselves. How sweet they are, how sugary and cartoonish. They tell the story of their wedding in the subway. On the one hand, they go on constructing the myth of
Observations · New York · Society
The most interesting thing about the election of a Ugandan-born, half-Gujarati, half-Punjabi Muslim socialist as Mayor of New York is that in the USA the inhabitants of almost 30 of the largest cities can choose their mayors, whereas in Russia, tell me, where else besides Moscow and
Faith · Art · New York · Society
Jesus Christ knocks at the door of the United Nations building in New York. The painting is evidently meant to convey that true peace can be found only through Christ. One might, however, put a question on the side to the moneychangers driven out of the temple: why has Bethlehem
Archive · Books · New York · Humour
An unknown Kerouac manuscript has been found among the effects of a mafia boss. Evidently he, too, believed that real jazz is when they shoot off the beat. Jack Kerouac, author of the cult novel On the Road and symbol of the Beat Generation. A film adaptation of the same
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📌 The story of the circus performer Matryona Rasputina, daughter of Grigory Rasputin 📌 666 degrees Celsius. The forecast of the end of the world by Isaac Newton 📌 The financing of the 1917 revolution and other insidious geopolitical projects of Germany 📌 The oldest Christian monastery in the Sinai desert is under threat
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Trump has berated the UN for pocketing several billion on renovating the very building that houses its Secretariat. One has the feeling that the embezzlement of repair funds is the most elementary corruption practice in the world, running from the endless levies at school for redecorating a classroom to, as
Coming Up · New York · Pop Culture
On 28 September, Jamie Lloyd's production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot will open at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway. Although Reeves first appeared on the stage as long ago as 1985, playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Waiting for Godot will be his first Broadway
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Christie's is closing its digital art and NFT department. One rather suspects they were the only ones left who remembered what it was. The decision, well, who would have thought? is connected both with the global slump in interest in NFTs and with broader shifts in the art
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Remember the episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer and Bart become Catholics, and Marge frets that they will make merry in the Catholic heaven with Jesus while she is bored on the cricket pitch of the Protestant one, and Bart retorts: "Sorry, Mum, this is the
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Moscow: 250,000 - 305,000 - 601,000 - 1,175,000 Saint Petersburg: 220,000 - 442,000 - 668,000 - 1,418,000
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In July, a Martian meteorite found in Niger in 2023 was sold at Sotheby's in New York for $4.3 million. The stone, known as NWA 16788, became the largest Martian meteorite ever sold at auction. Only the other day, Niger opened an investigation into the circumstances of