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NB! · Observations · Paris · Pop Culture · Humour
Has anyone worked out whether those African women on the bridge at the Olympic opening ceremony are an allusion to gargoyles, or just a number in the wailing-Kevin style?
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Perhaps It Would Have Been Better Simply to Say "I Am Mad About You"
Art · Books · Observations · Rome
In Concord Small States Grow, in Discord the Greatest Fall to Nothing
Sometimes this thought of the ancient Roman historian Gaius Sallust (Concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maximae dilabuntur) is rendered more literally: as harmony makes small things grow, so discord brings the great to ruin. Illustration: Pieter Birmann, Roman ruins of the Arch of Titus, 1781–90
Art · Museums · Observations · New York
Sculpture of the 1890s that once stood atop Madison Square Garden in New York
Augustus Saint-Gaudens's golden statue of Diana on the grand staircase of the Philadelphia Museum of Art proves that a real longing for beauty, not without a touch of the transcendent, can exist even in a country of such vulgar and ostentatious materialis. This sculpture of the 1890s
NB! · Observations · Humour
Thank You for the Invitation, I Shall Not Be Coming
NB! · Art · Observations
Three-legged winged bronze chair by Mark Brazier-Jones, 1990
Marc Brazier-Jones, Three-Legged Winged Chair, bronze, 1990. I reckon one ought to take it
Art · Observations · Society · Paris
Saint-Germain-des-Prés gallery owners complain about barriers and QR code passes during the Olympics
Art gallery owners in some Paris neighbourhoods complain that, despite the appeals for a cultural contribution to the Olympics, access to their galleries has simply been blocked. And the question is no longer one of boosting sales in the tourist season, but of how the gallery staff themselves are to
Faith · Art · Observations
The risen Christ as a gardener and Mary recognising his voice
Mary Magdalene Did Not Recognise the Risen Christ and Took Him for the Gardener. The motif of the risen and unrecognised Christ recurs several times in the Gospel accounts, but it is in the guise of a gardener that the Saviour is at his most enigmatic. Mary did not recognise
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Education
Walls of an 1884 student residence in Filippovsky Lane exposed, revealing a wooden building
In Filippovsky Lane the walls of the former Lepyoshkin Student Hostel of the Imperial Moscow University (1884), which now houses the Theatre House "Old Arbat", have been stripped of their plaster. The most interesting thing here, besides the vivid demonstration of the lost technologies of the past, is
NB! · Cinema · Observations · Humour
The actresses Evgenia Dmitrieva and Sarah Paulson really are very alike, are they not?
NB! · Architecture · Observations · Heritage · Paris