Coming Up · Moscow · Museums · Observations
And yet, at the main building of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, a new season of the festival "Fridays at the Pushkin" has begun, due to run until 25 December. This year the friends of the museum have been offered a poetic collaboration with the actors
Interviews · Books · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
The shocking news of the ban on cultural events in Moscow from 13 November caught me quite literally at the presentation of Sati Spivakova's new book "Nescuchnaya klassika" [Classics Without the Boredom] at the Dostoevsky bookshop and reading club. The number of guests was incredible, and
Coming Up · Books · Moscow · Museums
Until 11 January 2021 the “Slovo” Centre at VDNKh in Moscow is hosting the exhibition “Dots over Ё”, devoted to the history of one of the most controversial letters of the Russian alphabet. The exhibition offers a kind of retrospective of letter usage from the 13th century to the present
Art · Moscow · Mores · Society Pages
Creative life is returning to Peredelkino with the revival of its place of pilgrimage, the House of Creativity, which for many has become the most beloved place this autumn and truly echoes the revival of dacha culture and an interest in authentically Russian leisure. Today, at the Shaltai Editions brunch
Architecture · Moscow · Mores
A 1950s stove door in the basement of the Leform shop on Povarskaya Street. The house, built in 1952, where Sergey Mikhalkov lived with Natalia Konchalovskaya, was, like thousands of other houses of the time, centrally heated, though from boiler houses of its own, unlike the thousands of houses that
Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages
Went to the Moscow Biennale of Young Art yesterday and was at first disappointed, but after talking to some gallerist acquaintances, I have partly changed my mind. After all, one ought not to have compared this event from the outset with the major art occasions of not so long ago,
Architecture · Moscow · Heritage · Society
Residents of the thirteen-storey Academy of Sciences of the USSR staff block on Dmitry Ulyanov Street urge attention to the construction of a metro line right beneath their buildings. This particular building, dating from 1957 and executed in the style of late Stalinist Empire, is famous as the home
Coming Up · Moscow · Society
The third annual "Bell of Remembrance" event will be held in Moscow and other Russian cities in memory of the victims of political repression. In Moscow, visitors may come to lay flowers and light candles at the memorial to the victims of political repression, the "Wall of
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
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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