NB! · Art · Observations · Nature · Humour
Section
· 3928 stories
Observations
NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Observations
I continue to keep watch over my favourite building site in Moscow, the pedestrian bridge on Bolotnaya Embankment
I continue to keep watch over my favourite building site in Moscow, the pedestrian bridge on Bolotnaya Embankment. The bridge is taking on convincing outlines, and soon we shall be testing the new promenade route
Archaeology · Observations · Science · Nature
In an article on how the inhabitants of southern Norway could make wooden fish traps at least seven thousand years ago, I came upon a suggestion that at about the same time people carried commercially valuable salmonids, namely brown trout, into mountain
In an article on how the inhabitants of southern Norway could make wooden fish traps at least seven thousand years ago, I came upon a suggestion that at about the same time people carried commercially valuable salmonids, namely brown trout, into mountain lakes. The hunter-fisher-gatherers, according to the
Observations · Science · Ethnography · Humour
Misiak and Tureček build a model of cannibalism as an economic practice
A Polish-Czech team of scholars investigates the complexities of cannibalism. They are, of course, careful to stipulate that they are merely modelling, not conducting fieldwork. The aim is to explain why cannibalism never took hold as a regular strategy, and why a taboo arose in different cultures. Why, indeed?
Observations · Science · Society
Researcher Tushar Sen reports a journal reviewer demanded money for a positive review
A new scandal may be looming in the scientific world over the policies of academic journals; at least its outlines are already visible. Tushar Sen, an Indian software researcher, reports that a reviewer for a major journal extorted money from him in exchange for a favourable report. The paper, on
Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations
The Pushkin Museum's 2026 logo and a call to return to the previous one
I thought the Pushkin Museum's previous logo was a failure, but now they have replaced it with something even more abstract: just four columns, although the portico of the main building rests on six. And yet they could simply have admitted the mistake of 2024 and gone back
Art · Observations
Gala and Dalí in a 1983 double portrait by Sighard Gille
Gala and Dalí. Siegfried Gille, 1983 Just as I had pictured them
Art · Museums · Observations
Alice Mackler ceramics among over seventy works donated to the Zimmerli Art Museum
And they lived happily ever after! A very charming piece of ceramics by Alice Mackler, 2014. Mackler is a most interesting artist who began to win recognition as a sculptor only after the age of eighty, when a solo exhibition of her work was held in New York in 2013.
London · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Alexandra of Denmark's 1863 earrings worn by Elizabeth II, Diana and Camilla
Expectation versus reality: a collage. Cam and Di in the very same earrings. Though, judging by the fact that Camilla's ears are not pierced, there are two possibilities: either they were glued on for her, or remade as clip-ons. The original pair was presented to Alexandra of
NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
Do you remember how, in 2012, Elizabeth II stormed the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice?
Moscow · Museums · Observations · Heritage
Ground collapses in the inner courtyard of the Scriabin Museum, and access is restricted
Ground collapse in the courtyard of the Scriabin Museum. I hope it can all be put right without any serious consequences
Coming Up · Archive · Art · Museums · Observations
Exhibition “Beyond the 101st Kilometre” opens in Tarusa for 65th anniversary of the 1961 show
An exhibition called "Beyond the Hundred-and-First Kilometre. Nonconformists in Tarusa" has opened in Tarusa, marking the 65th anniversary of the "first free exhibition" of unofficial artists, held here in 1961 in the premises of the town club. That was a year before the Manege