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Wondering what was so mysteriously Victorian going on in Peredelkino yesterday? Conversations in hammocks, prose readings in garden pavilions, impassioned speeches by gentlemen beneath century-old pines, photographs taken with an antique mirror camera… Let me tell you. Bookmate and the Peredelkino Writers' House presented the first translation of
Faith · The East · Cinema · Moscow · Society Pages
We begin our screening of "Little Buddha" with Karo.Art at the October Cinema Centre. As usual, I have prepared extracts from ancient tomes for discussion after the film. We shall be talking with the artist Mikhail Rubankov. And a little later I shall invite everyone to my
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The exhibition is called "Dinners", and every work depicts a dinner that might have taken place in the various halls and museums of contemporary art. Among the guests at these dinners one can make out Vladimir Lenin and Kazimir Malevich; Yayoi Kusama, whom the artist has surrealistically flattered
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A cosy exhibition, as is always the case at Lobby Moscow, has opened: the work of Artem Lyapin, an artist of the Flor et Lavr gallery. The show is called “I Think This Love Will Last Forever”. Artem works with metal, textiles and painting, and uses such techniques as cyanotype,
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Dudakov is showing paintings by precisely those artists with whom his collection began in 1970: Vladimir Nemukhin, Nikolai Vechtomov, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Oskar Rabin, Boris Sveshnikov, Vladimir Weisberg, Mikhail Shvartsman, Yuli Sooster. Valery Alexandrovich knew the generation of the nonconformist "men of the sixties" personally and was friends with
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Zoya Boguslavskaya on the eve of her hundredth birthday with her son Leonid Boguslavsky at the opening of the exhibition "Always Zoya. An Exhibition Novel" at the Voznesensky Centre, devoted to the creative and personal path of Zoya Borisovna
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If the conference itself was given over to discussions of the activities of patrons, the formation of museum collections and trusteeship in education and healthcare, the evening, with neoclassical compositions performed by the Force Of Music ensemble and masterpieces of Russian and foreign song classics sung by the Logos choir,
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Completely smitten
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Went to the Catalog contemporary art fair. Looked at works by some splendid artists. Had my photograph taken with Francisco Infante. I liked the second season of the fair as much as the first: a most agreeable event, held at a good professional level.
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Winner of the fifth category of The Art Newspaper Russia XII Awards, Museum of the Year: PERMM in the city of Perm, for energy, resilience and the knack of staying in dialogue with the public and the city. The award is presented by Roman Zhukarin, Director of the Nizhny Novgorod