NB! · Architecture · Art · Observations

Two Eras Meet: A Cosmic Bas-Relief on the Wall of a Shopping Centre in Kaluga, Tsiolkovsky's Hometown

Map of Europe with most of the territory in yellow for butter, the south in green for olive oil, and a mixed band between them.

NB! · Geography · Observations · Mores

Map of Butter and Olive Oil Consumption Across European Regions

Olive or butter? Which fat is mainly used in the different countries of Europe? As you can see, butter wins, though neither palm oil nor sunflower oil took part in the sample

NB! · Archive · Observations · Rome

Rome in 1950 as a reminder of how beautiful the world was before globalisation

NB! · Architecture · Faith · The East · Observations

Hagia Sophia, filmed from a helicopter

Hagia Sophia, filmed from a helicopter. Just imagine how beautiful it was before the seizure

Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations

The exhibition “Square and Space” opens at GES-2, with works from Malevich to the Kabakovs

The "Square and Space" exhibition, curated by Zelfira Tregulova and Francesco Bonami, has opened at GES-2. Judging by the sheer number of first-rank names gathered for it, this is an event of international standing. According to the curators' conception, in the first quarter of the

NB! · Cinema · Observations · People

Thank you, Donald Sutherland, for the many brilliant performances you have left us

Coming Up · Art · Observations · Society Pages

A remarkable, vivid and absorbing exhibition, "Threads", has opened at the Ruarts Foundation

A highly representative, almost textbook selection of artists who work with textiles in every conceivable form, as the exhibition's curator Nina Gomiashvili writes in her foreword, took as its point of departure Hans Christian Andersen's nettle coats of mail, but has grown into a museum-grade

NB! · Observations

I do not know who first devised this design, but I support it wholeheartedly

NB! · Faith · Observations

Thank God, Another Day Has Dawned

Art · Observations · Humour

"A New Life Begins" or "Dante and Beatrice in the Garden"

Painter: Cesare Saccaggi, 1903 If anyone has been wanting to begin a new life, why not today? Even without Beatrice.

Pen drawing on a pale sheet showing six pillows from different angles, with the date 1493 written at the top.

NB! · Art · Observations

Albrecht Dürer’s drawing of six pillows, made in 1493

Good morning! Six cushions by Albrecht Dürer, 1493