Recognise Your Kitchen?

Recognise your kitchen? The sprouted onion is touching: it reminded me at once of Grandmother's green onion shoots, which she kept going even in winter. Hardly anyone does that now, I suppose. And we had, and still have, similar plates with a blue rim, Japanese, from the 1950s, artefacts of the Soviet-Japanese timber trade campaign.

Vladimir Weisberg, 1955

From the exhibition "From Colour to Light" at the Gallery of European and American Art of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

This is not a diptych but a single, whole painting; I simply fancied photographing it this way.

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s