The Hammock for the Falling Stars is book for which 17 female authors wrote over 30 tales that take the reader to four corners of the world...
Dave McKean Mirrormask is a film where reality is a constrantly changing, dreamy work of art. The interview explores the artist's views of art and life....
As I’m reading through Art History books of my English-language library, I’ve immersed myself into a book on Turner’s trails in North and South Wales. I bought it on my visit to Vall...
My library is finally back home. After I had moved and posted everything that needed to go before anything else, there only remained hardbacks and photocopies to be transported from Manchester to Mosc...
Mona Lisa used to be a makeover darling for many an artist. I was caught off guard by postcards of La Gioconda in sunglasses, with punk make-up on a stand opposite the Louvres in Paris. They looked we...
Encircled by four-legged friends, it’s so tempting to stay in bed longer. But you still have to get up. Now, just about every visitor to this hall in the Louvre stops at this bath to admire it. ...
Die Worte des Engels Du bist nicht näher an Gott als wir; wir sind ihm alle weit. Aber wunderbar sind dir die Hände benedeit. So reifen sie bei keiner Frau, so schimmernd aus dem Saum: ich bin der Tag...
As the festive season is on its way, the Xmas label returns to the blog. In previous years I used to strive to post daily during December. Back then few people seriously tried to earn money with their...
Maya Plisetskaya hasn’t lived a few months until her 90th birthday – just like my grandma a year ago. Here in these photos the prima ballerina’s grace and humour are commemorated by Richard Avedon. Sh...
I recently had to comment in a discussion on one of socnets about the plausibility of the story of Noah’s Arch. The argument was that the story was never questioned, then the person took interes...
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