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Paris, je t'aime

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Good Morning and Have a Good Day

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A Man's Character Is His Fate

And the biography on the profile is merely the version prepared for PR

Art · Museums · Observations · Mores · Paris

Paul Poiret's wire turban and the turn-of-the-century fashion for fearing electricity

Incredible, but this feathered ornament by Paul Poiret is in fact made of the finest metal wire. The curator of the Poiret retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs said that for the whole team this extraordinary headdress came as a discovery. But I recalled the amusing fashion of the

View from above of a stairwell with a blue wrought-iron railing, a white figure sculpture hanging on a cable and a hand reaching towards it.

NB! · Observations · Humour

Sculpture suspended in a stairwell, described as a victim of shopping

A victim of shopping. But there is nothing to be done for her now

Museums · Observations · Society

The Pushkin Museum is closing its branches in Kaliningrad and Vladikavkaz

After 26 Years, the Urals Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg Has Closed. The management of the Pushkin Museum had earlier announced the closure of the Baltic Branch in Kaliningrad and the North Caucasus Branch in Vladikavkaz. The decision is connected with a revision of

Faith · Art · Observations · Society

A memorial to the victims of abuse within the Church in the Cathedral of the French Diocese of Meaux

Not the most distinguished work of art, but a worthy message

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Wishing everyone a good week, and may nothing keep you from your reading

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It seems we have begun to forget

A 1520 woodcut portrait of Martin Luther in a monk's habit, holding a book.

Faith · Observations · Education

Martin Luther's 1520 quotation and the modern Western university

I fear that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them upon the hearts of youth. Martin Luther, 1520. Looking at what goes on in the Western university, one sees that a quotation five hundred

NB! · Observations · Pop Culture · Humour

Lugging his bag of money to the land of forgotten idols

Lugging his bag of money to the land of forgotten idols. Soon the Labubu will be there too

The East · Cinema · Books · Observations · People

Julio Peña as Cervantes in Amenábar's film about his captivity by Algerian pirates

Among my plans for the near future: seeing Alejandro Amenábar's new film about my beloved Cervantes. Julio Peña plays Miguel de Cervantes. The action unfolds in 1575, and the narrative draws on the real biography of the author of Don Quixote. As attentive readers will remember, many years