Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

It turned out, it was not a camera in his hands

Sappho and Alcaeus, Lawrence Alma-Tadema. 1881

Fabergé Egg – The Grand Gatchina Palace. Purchased in 1930 by Henry Walters and exhibited here in Baltimore.

Here is a 19th-century motivator (or demotivator).

On a note on the mirror, it’s written in French (literally) “The lazy are unworthy of life” (Les Paresseux indigne de vivre”). The painting is called “Day Dreams”.

Interestingly, I googled and found that Thomas has a very similar painting, Soap Bubbles. There, the note says immortalité – immortality.

And there are soap bubbles in both paintings;)

Thomas Couture, Day Dreams. 1859

Only a shadow remains of the Lee and Jackson Confederate monument. In 2017, all such monuments in Baltimore were demolished following the clash between nationalists and antifascists in Charlottesville.

It turned out, she wasn’t reloading a rifle

Theodore Robinson, The Young Violinist, 1889

I feel that these friends in Jacob Lawrence’s Chess Players (1954) do not know how to play chess. Do you see any logical set of moves that could have led to such an arrangement? I see an illogical one, but perhaps I am mistaken.

More from contemporary art: “Dirty Mirror” which is a painting of a mirror with disgusting leftover cocaine type leavings smeared uglily across it.

A sign three meters away from the mirror, so at first, I didn’t even realize that it was a piece of art.

Marguerite Gérard, An Architect and His Family, 1787. Am I correct in thinking that Madame Marguerite, 250 years ago, transferred lens distortion onto the canvas? 😉 The children’s faces at the edges are oddly wide

The Baltimore Museum is one of the best. An absolute must-see. But sometimes, amid the rooms, you encounter something odd from the contemporary. What is that, snot between her fingers? Elle Pérez, Pull

Walking through the Baltimore Museum of Art. I see—Venice, familiar places. Decided to compare how it looks today with what it was like in 1750. Especially since we remember these places—we were there six months ago.