Art · Museums · Heritage · Society
The British government has temporarily barred the export from the country of the bronze statuette "Seated Nymph" by the Italian sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, whom his contemporaries nicknamed Antico. Experts have valued the statuette at £4.6 million. The temporary bar gives British museums and galleries time
Art · Books · Society · Pop Culture
The auction house Christie's has created a separate global pop culture department, which will hold several sales a year and offer objects connected with cinema and television, music and musical instruments, sport, science and technology, natural history, fashion and popular design. Christie's spent several years studying
Cinema · Faith · Books · Society · Pop Culture
Greta Gerwig's film "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" is due to reach cinemas in February 2027. Clive Staples Lewis wrote seven books in the "Chronicles of Narnia" cycle, and since 1950 readers have bought more than 100 million copies of them. The talking
The East · NB! · Books · Education · Society
Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
Corporal punishment (I am not speaking of running the gauntlet, branding and the knout, but in the form of the bastinado at the very least) must surely be restored. Precisely for such occasions, when the early bird has started to sing, lest the cat should eat it
Society · Education
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education has drafted amendments to the university admission rules for the 2027/28 academic year. History is to be made compulsory for those specialisms for which a university may currently choose between history and social studies. As a result, the number of fields of
Society · Cinema · Pop Culture
The Central Bank will issue collectable roubles dedicated to the cartoon The Golden Antelope. The issue will form part of the series "Russian (Soviet) Animation". In all there will be three versions of the coin. The silver coin with a face value of 3 roubles will be released
Architecture · Moscow · Faith · Heritage · Society
The bell tower of the Strastnoy Monastery, demolished in 1937, was used in the Soviet years for anti-religious propaganda and for advertising Communist ideas: the monastery had been closed since 1919 and housed the Central Anti-Religious Museum. The monastery's first gate church was built by order
Museums · Society · Paris · Heritage
On Saturday the Paris police arrested two dimwits from Germany at the Louvre, who had fixed two paintings of their own, each measuring 30 by 40 cm, to the wall beside the "Mona Lisa". One of the pictures they had brought depicted a man in armour. The other
Faith · Moscow · Observations · Society
Patience to all who are waiting! Congratulations to all who have stood out their turn in the queue! I cannot help rejoicing that Orthodox Rus' is awakening! They might have put on a train and carried the relic across the whole country, so that people in different cities could
Faith · Society · People
The open letter of Metropolitan Ambrosios was deemed insulting to the Permanent Synod and to the entire episcopate of the Church of Greece. In the letter, addressed to Archbishop Ieronymos and his fellow hierarchs, Metropolitan Ambrosios accuses the church leadership of silence while Greek society sinks into a moral and
Archaeology · Science · Society · Ethnography
A new estimate of the Indigenous population of Australia before the arrival of Europeans has been published. Modelling based on archaeological, genetic, ethnographic and ecological data has produced a median estimate of 2.22 million people by 1788, that is, by the arrival of the First Fleet. Earlier estimates ranged