Thomas Kinkade, Venice. Back in December 2011, we gave my colleague (a Sag, like me) a calendar as a birthday present. It was a selection of paintings by the American artist Thomas Kinkade who unexpec...
It is a bad sign when people stop understanding humour, irony, or joke. – Fyodor Dostoevsky. This is a rare photographic portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky, made by his close friend Konstatin Shapiro...
Art Salon came to the Central House of the Artists in Moscow between 16 and 25 of March. I visited it with a friend of mine who kindly helped me to delve into contemporary Russian painting and sculptu...
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. – Kurt Vonnegut (official site). ...
Arts & Collections have gathered five recommendations for the places to stay that offer the best “room with a view”. Surprisingly or not, the UK’s Lake District has made it to th...
It is almost strange to say this, but spring finally seems to be coming to Moscow. The winter has been hesitant to start, and then it did not want to end. Even now the snow is still on the ground, alt...
Image: Seth Adam Smith Laughter is humanity. – Leo Tolstoy (consult Encyclopaedia Britannica)....
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy. – a proverb Laughter is not always associated with comedy; Mary Beard studied laughter as a ‘social signifier’ in the Roman society....
Do you know the answer to the question in the post’s title? I bet you don’t even guess what the answer is. You may rest assured, though, that on this side of Europe nothing is what youR...
Julia and the yellow Porsche GUM, which is short from Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin, is the oldest and the largest department store in the capital. Having started long before the 19th c. as the trading...