Real Leningrad: Photos of the city on the Neva, which are compared with the poetry of Brodsky

What are the hallucination paintings of a Japanese surrealist who is compared to the great Bosch?

And yet, contemporary surrealist artists never cease to amaze the viewer with their irrepressible imagination, which sometimes does not obey common sense. Our publication contains an incredible gallery of works by surrealist from Japan Naoto Hattori. Watch and be amazed at the flight of fantastic thought and artistic skill of the artist, who created images that resemble characters from Bosch's paintings and anime

The magical and humorous world in the paintings of the "Dutch surrealist" from Russia: Why Valery Bagaev is compared to Bruegel

Today we will again talk about contemporary art and present to the public an amazing gallery of works by the Nizhny Novgorod artist Valery Bagaev, who skillfully combined Western European classics, surrealism, and symbolism in his work. A magical pictorial world, subtle kind humor and ingenuity miraculously intertwine in his works not only with the skill of the artist, but also with his gift of a storyteller, like Bruegel's

House-glass in St. Petersburg: why were communal buildings similar to corn built in the city on the Neva

Glass houses became one of the experiments of Soviet modernism in the second half of the last century. Several such skyscrapers were built in St. Petersburg (and then still in Leningrad). The most famous is located in Kupchin at the address: Budapeshtskaya street, 103. This cylindrical building is also called the "house-corn". And its tenants, like corn seeds, huddled in cramped cells-rooms. What to do - initially everything here was arranged according to the principle of a house-commune

ABC closed the series "Roseanne", which Trump liked: the main character compared the former Obama adviser to a monkey

On ABC TV channel it was told that it was decided not to continue shooting the series "Roseanne". The main role in this series was played by actress Rosanna Barr. The plot is based on the life of an ordinary housewife, as well as her family and relatives

15 real photos of the Iranian Shah and his harem, in which there were almost 100 women

The other day, the world spread the news: the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-un revived the tradition of his grandfather and father and started his own harem "Garden of Pleasures". The harem seems to the European a sort of abode of young and beautiful women from the Arabian fairy tales "1000 and One Nights". Meanwhile, curious photos of the harem of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, who ruled in Iran at the end of the 19th century, destroy the prevailing stereotypes. In our review, you can see the beauties of the harem of the Iranian ruler with your own eyes