Tue 30/12 – Tue 20/01 Cat in modern Russian art EXHIBITIONS It has been a long time since Moscow has seen more frivolous exhibitions, the essence of which is admiration and tenderness. Perhaps it would be even better if cats were simply placed in the Manege, who would paint exquisite abstract canvases in front of the public.

Akimov: In the Wild West, exceptions survived. Those who did not have the will, they were killed by the Indians, tortured by bureaucrats, destroyed by bandits, and the exceptions survived. Sokolov: Not at all. Those who were able to agree on the rules of the game survived. They first sailed there to escape based on the new rule. But what is your farmer's categorical imperative that this can be a general rule? Tsvetkov: He has an economic interest, why does he need a categorical imperative?

One of the Bondage Fairies songs tells how the musician's girlfriend injured his penis Sat 17/01 ## A cheerful group with half-eight-bit punk CONCERTS The Swedes have been successfully combining the aesthetics of old games and some kind of punk mood for a long time, which is why they are loved in Russia no less than the band Bonaparte, which was similar in mood but appeared a little later.

MOVIE Riggan Thompson is not a healthy person. He once played the role of the iconic superhero Birdman, but he never did anything more interesting, although he dreamed of it. The financial situation is poor, there is no family life. Riggan's Last Chance is a Broadway production based on the stories of Raymond Carver. A few days before the premiere, it turns out that there is no second actor, and the daughter who has left rehab will help her dad on the set.

Pavel Pryanikov, publicist, former editor-in-chief of the Russian Planet website: I was riding on the subway today and saw people shouting into their phones about dollars, about exchange rates, about exchangers. This wasn’t the case just a couple of weeks ago - it seems that this is the peak of anxiety; people, apparently, have begun to realize that everything is not so good.

A play by Vladimir Mirzoev about how everything is lost THEATER Master of the big and bold form Vladimir Mirzoev is staging Chekhov's most hopeless play. Apparently, because there are no main roles in the play, the permanent star of all Mirzoev’s great works, Maxim Sukhanov, does not participate in the performance.

From Thu 15/01 Features of Latin American vendetta CINEMA The Argentine film, selected for the official program of last year's Cannes Film Festival, is a cavalcade of 6 short films united by themes of violence and revenge. In one, a pilot gathers a plane full of his enemies in order to destroy them all at once. In another, a waitress tries to poison the loan shark who ruined her family. In the third, a fired building bombing expert declares war on the city's survival.

The co-creator of one of this summer's most haunting hits (Iggy Azalea's "Fancy") seems to be finally fully coming into her own in the context of the larger pop scene. To do this, however, it was necessary to almost completely get rid of the former gothic touch - “Sucker”, with guitars playing as loudly as drum machines and synthesizers, is, in general, digitalized pop-punk for student parties with a lot of alcohol.

David Graeber was one of the activists and leaders of the Occupy Wall Street movement and even came up with one of the protest slogans - “We are the 99%” David Graeber "Debt: The First 5000 Years of History" author American ethnographer (studying slavery in Madagascar for two years), anthropological theorist, Occupy Wall Street activist. The antipode of the leader of liberal historians is Niall “The Rise of Money” Ferguson.

All Kolyada THEATER For the entire second half of January, the sign of the Na Strastnoy theater center can be replaced with the Kolyada Theater logo. Every day, performances by the most authentic Russian theater, which regularly glorifies the Ural theater in Europe, will be played here, new plays by Nikolai Kolyada and his students will be read, and a documentary film about this phenomenon will be shown.

The magnum opus of one of Detroit's smartest electronic musicians is two-plus hours of unfocused house and semi-improvisational techno. The music here is wrapped in ingenious spirals; You're unlikely to dance to these ten-minute suites, but watching Parrish shamanize with dry rhythms, scraps of singing phrases and scraps of old disco, hinting at the ambivalent state of American society, is terribly interesting.

A Zen exhibition, ideally in keeping with the spirit of the times EXHIBITIONS A clearly articulated statement in Gut’s style: “Away from the dust.” This is the name of the exhibition opening in 2015, which, it seems, will be much harder for all residents of Russia than 2014. But the artist calls not to lose heart, but to seek peace in Zen reflections.

Hangover sweets during the New Year holidays CITY The Sweets Festival at VDNKh is held annually and is actually a trade union congress - here Russian and sometimes foreign manufacturers present their cakes, chocolate, pastries, marshmallows, sweets and any other goodies that can come to mind. All this can be tried, compared and bought.

From Thu 29/01 Hackers and other movie heroes of our time After a four-year break, Michael Mann returns to the world of adrenaline-fuelled thrillers. US and Chinese intelligence agencies are working together to capture an elusive group of cyber criminals. The only one who can help them is imprisoned hacker Nicholas, who exchanges his sentence for a deadly pursuit of villains around the world. The computer worm is played by Chris Hemsworth, incredibly handsome for the role, but that’s all Mann.

5 quotes from 2014 films that will sound inappropriate at the New Year's table “What are you thinking about? How do you feel? What have we done to each other? ("Gone Girl") “And now I’m going to die in the company of the biggest idiots in the Galaxy” (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) 3. “We have enough TVs and airplanes. We don't have enough food" (Interstellar) “I’ll always die now!” (“Bitter! 2”)