The Verge Historic Painting: Maslenitsa by Boris Kustodiev, 1919. This amazing painting depicts the Russian winter holiday festival just before Lent.
Interiors: The “Commodore Club” aboard the ocean liner Queen Mary 2. What does an Art Deco bar aboard a modern ocean liner have to do with Star Trek? Possibly a lot.
A thousand points of denial: The global warming legacy of George H.W. Bush. Despite his successes, Bush's most important and enduring legacy is one of failure: the failure to lead on the issue of climate change.
Willkommen, again: “Cabaret” and its renewed relevance. This film, made in the 1970s about the 1930s, is arguably more relevant to conditions in 2025 than it ever was.