The French word fondation, according to the dictionary, translates as “foundation”, “foundation”, “institute” and “institution”. In the field of art, this word is applied specifically to institutions involved in patronage, collecting and various types of support for the arts. Victorious organizations in France (unlike Russia) are a dime a dozen. And this is not a matter of special Russian stinginess or a special French love of art, but of different economic principles.

Barack Obama wins a Grammy for Best Audio Book of the Year for the audio version of his bestselling book The Audacity of Hope.

(Scream of the Ants) Mohsen Makhmalbaf. Starring Mahnoor Shadzi, Mahmoud Chokrollahi, Karl Maass, Tenzin Chogyal. Iran-France, 2006, subtitles A communist and a Muslim go to India for enlightenment. At times a beautiful, pretentious and surprisingly stupid film from one of the main Iranian directors. 35MM, Formula Cinema Horizon, Art Mon 3 – Wed 5 November

(Kwong saan mei yan) 0 ★★★★★ Chin Xutong. Starring Donnie Yen, Xiadong Guo, Zhenghai Kou, Kelly Chen, Leon Lai. China-Hong Kong, 2008, subtitles An epic about a Chinese girl who has to lead the country. 5 stars (on Novokuznetskaya) Mon 3 – Wed 12, Sat 15, Sun 16 November

Taras Buevsky, Vitaly Galutva, Sandor Kallosh, Stanislav Krejci, Olesya Rostovskaya and others. Association of Electroacoustic Music. House of Composers, 19.00

(Caotica Ana) 136 ★★★★ Julio Medem. Starring Manuela Velles, Charlotte Rampling, Bebe, Asier Newman, Nicolas Casale, Raul Peña. Spain, 2007, voice-over translation A poetic story stylized as a hypnosis session about a beauty in modern, rapidly

from Hitler's bunkers, and when dad was executed as a participant in Operation Valkyrie, mom received a bill for the execution in the mail. Vera studied as a textile artist in the GDR, then went to Italy, invented her alter ego Veruschka and became the first supermodel to be chased by the paparazzi.

Rimas Tuminas , appointed head of the Vakhtangov Theater a year ago, is releasing the premiere on Arbat - Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida . The theater announces the performance as a satirical farce and warns: “When you come to the play Troilus and Cressida, leave your knowledge of the Trojan War at the door. Don't try to match them to what you see on stage.

Quantum of Solace, the 22nd James Bond film and Daniel Craig's second appearance in the role, directed by arthouse director Marc Forster, is being released. Adrina spoke to Craig, Forster and Olga Kurylenko, who plays the Bond girl. LET BTE YOU BE FIRST IN VOLBTA AND PUBLICAVASS Interview: Stanislav Zelvensky - Well, this is a natural process... Since I am not indifferent to the project and Mark was very open, we held meetings and finalized the script together.

As part of the annual festival “Dedication to Oleg Kagan,” the Moscow Soloists orchestra, together with its chief and accordion player Friedrich Lips, presents the Russian premiere of “Once Upon a Time” by Gia Kancheli. In addition, the program includes music by Bach, Handel and Haydn. Sun 16 November, 19.00 FESTIVAL Dedication to Oleg Kagan Chamber ensemble “Moscow Soloists”. Conductor and soloist Yuri Bashmet (viola). Soloist Friedrich Lips (accordion).

This book - well, yes, a strange title, it’s not often that you review something with the word “babies” in the title - has just been shortlisted for the Enlightenment Prize, which starting this year will be awarded for the best popular science book of the year written by a Russian author.

(495) 410 87 03, 237 54 82, Shukhova, 18 M Shabolovskaya Evergreen dwarf trees A collection of evergreen trees from Southeast Asia, Europe and Japan, as well as trees from Russian bonsai masters. From 7 years; until December 31

Since negation dominates the release data of the record (even down to the releasing label: in fact, there is none, the album can be downloaded for free on a special blog), it makes sense to define it by contradiction. So here it is. “Non-Trucks” is not a group “...and my friend is a truck,” although the people are the same. There's almost no bass guitar here.

(And When Did You Last See Your Father?) Anand Tucker. Starring Jim Broadbent, Colin Firth, Juliet Stevenson, Gina McKee, Elaine Cassidy, Claire Skinner. UK-Ireland, 2007, subtitles A writer (Firth) travels to his dying father (Broadbent), trying to figure out whether he loves him. An English melodrama based on the autobiographical book by Blake Morrison, director Tucker previously directed “The Shopgirl.”

(495) 634 22 22, 19th km of Rublevo-Uspenskoye highway, cottage village. Borki, 36 Ⓐ Molodezhnaya, then bus. 121 to the stop. “Borki”, Mon-Sun 12.00-20.00, free admission Two Paintings of the 20th century from private collections. Alexey Kravchenko, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Nikolay Tarkhov, Pavel Chelishchev, Alexey Kravchenko, Moses Kisling and others, November 16 - January 19 See review Collection from the collections of the Painting gallery, until November 9