Coming Up · Moscow
In case you missed it: on 25 October in Moscow the doors opened on Brusfest, the international festival of documentary theatre named after Dmitry Brusnikin. Expect productions, performances, staged readings, promenades, a festival conference, a book launch and much else besides. Tickets can be bought on the festival's
Coming Up · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Society
While we plan our working weeks, I suggest turning your attention to the new programme at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, a series of discussions and closed seminars on "New Ethics, Stigma and Inequality". To my mind, the most interesting thing about this thematic field is its
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums
Today is museum day, so it is the right moment to consider what might be visited over the coming month. If you are in Moscow or planning to visit the capital, save this listing. At the Alexander Solzhenitsyn museum-apartment on Tverskaya, the exhibition “Comrade Captain!”, devoted to the writer&
Coming Up · Art · Cinema · Moscow · Museums
On 15 October the Tretyakov Gallery will screen Giovanni Troilo's documentary "Frida. Viva la Vida", which reaches general release on 20 October. Before the screening, Tatyana Pigareva, head of the cultural department of the Instituto Cervantes in, will give a lecture on Frida Kahlo, her ties
Coming Up · Art · Museums · Observations
Among the interesting exhibitions currently on, I would visit "Avant-Garde. By Cart into the 21st Century" in Yekaterinburg. It is a joint project of the Yeltsin Centre and the "Encyclopaedia of the Russian Avant-Garde", devoted to displays of contemporary art in the provincial towns
Coming Up · Moscow · Museums
The Prokofiev Museum invites registrations for the 5th Open Composers' Competition "Prokofiev's Time", which this year is presented in the category "Composition for Balalaika, Bayan and Saxophone, 'In the Folk Spirit'". Musicians may submit their applications until 1 November. The jury
Coming Up · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography
A reminder that until 4 October the exhibition "Earthly Beauty: The Image of Woman in Folk Culture" can be seen in Saint Petersburg. It has been prepared by specialists of the Russian Museum of Ethnography from ethnographic collections of the 19th-20th centuries and historical photographs illustrating the
Coming Up · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
The Shostakovich Saint Petersburg State Academic Philharmonic celebrates its centenary and, to mark the opening of the new season, which coincides with Dmitri Shostakovich's birthday, will broadcast a grand concert live. The programme includes Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1.
Coming Up · Books · Museums · Saint Petersburg
In the Korf Hall of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg, at 18 Sadovaya Street, an intriguing exhibition, "Legends of the NLR: Rossica. Marking the 170th Anniversary of the Founding of the Collection", is now open, presenting works by foreigners about Russia from the 18th to
Coming Up · Architecture · Moscow · People
Until the end of October the Lumière Brothers Centre for Photography is hosting a jubilee exhibition of the architectural photographer Naum Granovsky, bringing together photographs of Moscow from the 1920s to the era of Soviet modernism. The book «Naum Granovsky 1920-1980» is also on sale there.
Coming Up · Museums · Pop Culture · Saint Petersburg
TikTok has launched a series of virtual tours of Russian museums together with the Kultura.RF project. On Wednesdays and Saturdays one can join a virtual tour in the portal's official account, culturno, of the permanent displays and exhibitions of the country's leading museums. For now,
Coming Up · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
I suggest a visit to the exhibition marking the centenary of the Republic of Tatarstan, "Masterpieces from Kazan. From Roerich to Kandinsky", at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, which runs until 1 November and presents works by artists of the Silver Age and the Russian avant-garde