Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
Among today's news, besides the session of the Council for Culture and the Arts, there is a very pleasant message from the Tretyakov Gallery for Culture Worker's Day: to keep the creator alive within oneself, and to remember that culture workers turn routine into a work
Art · Observations
How do you like this little fiddle, "La Fenice III " by the French-American artist Arman Pierre Fernandez? Arman was one of the founders of Nouveau Réalisme, the very artist who built a tower of 60 concreted cars not far from Le Perche. He often used ordinary household
Books · Observations
Beware of things! They enslave us very quickly and very firmly! So warns his interlocutor Ebenezer Sidney, the hero of Alexander Grin's novella "The Grey Motor-Car", as he reflects on the degree to which mechanical objects (or creatures) may be endowed with life. I recalled
Museums · Observations · Society · Saint Petersburg
Regarding the girls who slipped into the Hermitage for a commercial shoot, avoiding the official fee for this kind of use of museum spaces, the following must be understood. No one's private commercial interests should be placed on the opposite pan of the scales from good order in
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They say a still life is dead nature. But it feels otherwise
NB! · London · Observations · Humour
A stop at the US Embassy in London. Er, so much for the English sense of humour
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Archive · Observations · Society
The US National Archives has published documents on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Something in the order of eighty thousand files, I reckon a couple of days should be enough to get through them. Who is in? In addition, documents relating to the assassination of the American president'
Architecture · Cinema · London · Observations · Nature
Ever wondered where our crime films get all this taste for a grey, oppressive palette? No, Dostoevsky, with his gloomily coloured texts, is not the chief culprit here. It is chiefly the influence of the textbook templates of the English detective story, tied precisely to the Victorian era, which has
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