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Now the directresses of museums, now the directors of theatres. This is not culture but a fairy tale about misplaced personnel. One has the feeling that someone has spread a Monopoly board on the table and, chuckling, is shuffling the character cards from square to square. *with minor amendments The
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I don't know about you, but to me this 1967 photograph, showing the "book" towers going up on Novy Arbat, taken from the Church of the Saviour on Spasopeskovskaya Square, is a very sad sight. They have no business being here; they ought to have been
Archive · Cinema · Moscow · People · Pop Culture
Robert De Niro first visited Moscow in February 1982, on the eve of filming Emil Loteanu's "Anna Pavlova", in a cameo as the ballerina's impresario Solomon Yurok. The participation of a Hollywood star might have secured the film a release in the United States,
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📌 Closing soon: the Vladimir Nemukhin retrospective "Playing at Abstraction" at the New Tretyakov Gallery, until 15 March 📌 3 March: opening of the report exhibition by the art group PPSS at HSE ART GALLERY in the Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, until 7 April 📌 5 March: opening of the
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📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky” at the State Historical Museum, until 9 March 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Marc Chagall. The Joy of Earthly Gravity” at the Pushkin Museum, until 15 March 📌 The architect Sergey Choban’s exhibition “What We Have We (Do Not) Keep” at the Shchusev Museum
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The Ekaterina Foundation on Kuznetsky Most: city centre, spacious bright halls, not a soul about, so why not go? Two exhibitions are currently running there, and I dropped in to have a look at Vilgeny Melnikov and Oleg Maslov with their walk, "The Garden Keeper". A pleasant, unassuming
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And not a Peking duck in sight
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