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Art estate Veretyevo asks visitors to help restock the library in its park pavilions
The park created by the architect Brodsky at the Veretyevo art estate needs help restocking its library, scattered across tiny pavilions over 7 hectares of wooded marsh. Anna Narinskaya, curator of the Veretyevo book project, has already written that many visitors to the park, for some reason, take the bookshelves
NB! · Art · Observations · Society · Humour
Nine European auctions have cancelled the author's registration as a buyer
At present 9 European auction houses have cancelled my registration as a buyer. I cannot recall anyone in my whole life who has taken such tender care of the safety of my money
Observations · Mores · Society · Ethnography
Life-size Macron puppet at La France Insoumise events and the payasou tradition
Concerning the puppet that portrays our charming Macron in decidedly uncomplimentary fashion at opposition demonstrations: a number of critical pieces have already appeared in the Western media, among them the claim that it is an antisemitic image. For those not versed in French political realities, let me clarify: firstly, this
NB! · Observations · Society · Pop Culture · Humour
Emmanuel Macron's mask, incidentally, is not a home-made affair, but is freely on sale for a mere 20 euros
Faith · Observations · Society
To the Pope's ruling that any baptised lay Catholic, women included, may head the departments of the Vatican: the new apostolic constitution has a preamble stating that the Pope, bishops and other ordained…
This truly overturns the millennial foundations of the Catholic Church. The new constitution maintains that the presence of lay Catholics in leading roles in the Curia is necessary because of their familiarity with family life and social reality. As though priests lived in some other reality; and if they do,
Faith · Observations · Society · Rome
Pope Francis opens senior Church posts to women in new constitution Praedicate Evangelium
The Desacralisation of Church Institutions and Pope Francis: on Saturday 19 March Pope Francis Allowed Any Baptised Lay Catholic, Even a Woman, to Head Departments in the Vatican Administration. For centuries these posts could be held only by high-ranking clergymen, men naturally. It turned out that this could be
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Did Someone Say Gerontocracy?
Did someone say gerontocracy? In this photograph from the inauguration of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in January 1961 we see Nancy Pelosi, familiar to us as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, who is still to this day engaged in key roles in
Faith · Society
Pope Francis I and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia held a videoconference today
Pope Francis I and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia held a videoconference today. It was the first conversation between the two bishops since their personal meeting in Havana in 2016. They discussed the possibility that Patriarch Kirill might meet Pope Francis again this summer. Francis I spoke today
Art · Observations · Society
It Has Emerged That Sotheby's and Christie's Have Cancelled Their Russian Art Auctions, Which Are Usually Held on a Grand Scale and Accompanied by Sensational Sales
Well, these shears cut both ways: today several European auction houses wrote to inform me that my right to take part in their sales as a Russian has been suspended.
Art · Cinema · Education · Society
Artist Iorit from Naples painted a mural portrait of Dostoevsky over Pasolini's text
A Fresco with the Face of Dostoevsky Has Appeared on the Wall of the Augusto Righi Technical and Industrial Institute in the Western Suburbs of Naples. The mural is the work of the Naples-born street artist Jorit, known to the Russian public for his mural with the face of
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Could Europeans, Englishmen or Americans of the nineteenth century ever have thought of banning Russian culture, which was precisely then acquiring worldwide significance and influence?
I doubt it. Especially when I read, for instance, in a letter from Charles Dickens to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, whether he knows of the new Russian authors, such as Nikolai Gogol and his "Taras Bulba".