Art · Moscow · Museums · Reportage
Gorlova, head of the Department of Newest Trends at the State Tretyakov Gallery, complains of a lack of funding for exhibition activity. “For the most part, it is sponsors' money,” she says. “Funding for contemporary art exhibitions, as we know, is harder still to obtain. Besides, there have been
Moscow · Museums · Heritage · Society · Reportage
Soon after the liquidation of the TsIM, the Meyerhold Theatre and Cultural Centre, the Meyerhold Museum closed as well, though this closure passed almost unnoticed by the public. With the TsIM one can still guess at the reasons for what is going on, but why should the blow have fallen
Almaty · Architecture · Heritage · Society · Reportage
Faith · Reportage · Rome
Pope Francis I in the Jesuit Mother Church of Il Gesù in Rome at the service marking the 400th anniversary of the canonisation of St Teresa of Ávila, Ignatius of Loyola, Isidore the Farmer, Francis Xavier and Philip Neri. This time the Pope does not preside at the Mass: the
Observations · Society · Reportage · Society Pages
Friends and colleagues, I see that my announcement about Club 418 has interested and even stirred many of you. I hasten to report from the scene of events, from the final lecture of Club 418, which, like the very first lecture 9 years ago, was given by Edvard Radzinsky. Only
Observations · Society · Reportage · Ethnography
The Russian village has fallen still. Among their pressing problems, the villagers name the cemetery: the authorities will not allot land for a new graveyard, though for dozens of kilometres around the village lie abandoned fields, meadows and forests. "There is no land!" Once the village had its
Coming Up · Art · Reportage · Humour
Comrades, reporting from the artist's studio, I can announce that Lyokha Kyoujay and I have tallied the results of the competition to finish the comic. The winner is Dmitry V., who guessed, quite literally, how it all really happened. As promised, the holder of first place will receive
NB! · Books · Observations · Reportage · Humour
My colleagues and I walked Dmitry Volkostrelov's route at Yasnaya Polyana during the "Tolstoy" theatre festival. The length of the path equals the combined length of all the lines of the first edition of War and Peace. A stroll of some 6 km: the sum of
Art · Society · Reportage
The display boards of the kiosk, on which a sign reading "back in 5 minutes" has hung for four years, carry works by contemporary artists from Nizhny, among them Artem Filatov, Ivan Sery and Kurs Studio. Among them is, for example, an advertisement for SLON Travel promising an
NB! · Geography · Nature · Reportage
Venice today. A small deluge in the square in front of the Archaeological Museum
Architecture · Books · Reportage · Society Pages
Today sees the long-awaited opening of the mysterious park in the former pioneer camp of Veretyevo near Dubna, designed by Alexander Brodsky himself, who conducted one of the first tours between the clumps of nettles and thickets of thistle. The landscape park, laid out right on a bog, is
Geography · Moscow · Observations · Reportage
I rode the retro Metro train of 1935. The interior reproduces the finish of the first carriages of the Moscow Metro: metal wall lamps with white shades, original handrails, the colour scheme, aluminium edging painted to look like wood, beech crossbars at the windows, and embossed plastic panels on the