Art · New York · Society

Sotheby's to pay New York State $6.25 million to settle tax fraud suit brought by Attorney General Letitia James

Sotheby's will pay New York State $6.25 million to settle a tax fraud suit brought by Attorney General Letitia James. The suit accused the auction house of helping its clients to evade taxes. Attorney General James alleges that the investigation uncovered, among other things, a scheme that

Interviews · Art · Moscow · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg

Interview on the isolation of the Russian art market and exchange of museum collections abroad

Another interesting fragment from Marina Loshak's recent interview. — Is the Russian art market content with Vasnetsov and Serov? — It is very bad when a culture, however rich and varied it may be, stews in its own juice. It is one single "broth", and every ingredient in

London · Monarchies · Observations · Society

Author questions reports of Elizabeth II's remarks on Trump and Johnson

They write that Elizabeth II meant to turn her feckless son Prince Andrew out of his house, and also that she disliked Boris Johnson and Donald Trump. Strange reading, and, as usual, on the word of unnamed sources. Ah, those masters of journalism! As for Trump, on the contrary, according

Society · People

There is no historical fatality; there is only a historical Nemesis, which punishes those who dithered when it was still possible to act

The Austrian socio-political theorist Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. Illustration: Sergey Yukhimov

Art · Moscow · Museums · Society

A Gift for Stalin

The Pushkin Museum has put on display an art cabinet (a so-called kunstkast) presented to Stalin in 1949. This year, specialists of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts attributed this piece of furniture: the paintings are by the Antwerp painter Jan van Balen and date from the

NB! · Faith · Society · Ethnography

The Amish, who usually take no part in American political life, have this time not stood aside

Black-and-white portrait of a smiling young man in a dark uniform with a white sash, buttons, medals and a braided cord.

NB! · Observations · Society · Humour

Comparing the looks of young Donald Trump and young Winston Churchill

In looks alone, the young Donald Trump bears some resemblance to the young Winston Churchill. Or does he not?

NB! · Society · Humour

In fact, the most level-headed outcome of the American elections looks like this

Art · Monarchies · Moscow · Observations · Society

New monument to the Governor-General of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov, and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, unveiled in Klimentovsky Lane, beside Tretyakovskaya metro station

The monument depicts the grand ducal couple on the day of their wedding in 1884. Elizaveta Feodorovna wears a bridal gown with a flowing train. Sergei Alexandrovich is dressed in the uniform of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment, which he commanded from 1887 to 1891. Sergei Romanov was killed in

NB! · Monarchies · Society · Nature

The King and Queen of Spain in Valencia, Struck by an Unprecedented and, as some write, Man-Made Flood

Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Society

Q-ART Gallery opens “Green Light for the Underground” for the 50th anniversary of the Izmailovo exhibition

The second part of the exhibition project "Belyayevo — Izmaylovo. Nonconformism from the Q-ART Collection", entitled "Green Light for the Underground", has opened at Q-ART Gallery. It is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the exhibition of nonconformist artists in Izmaylovo Park, held two weeks

NB! · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Society

The sorry state of the medieval and Renaissance stained glass in one of the oldest churches of France, the church of Saint-Pierre in Chartres, dating from the thirteenth century, is a sad testimony to the French Republic's authorities drifting ever furthe