Stereotype Recently, it seems that such a stereotype has developed that the curator is a person who does not have a permanent place of work, free from office routine and engaged in various exhibition projects - mainly in the field of actual art. There is a feeling that this is some new phenomenon, a new professional niche. And this is not entirely true.

On August 12 on the crowdfunding platform Planeta . ru A project to raise funds for the study of the technical condition of the former water tower of UZTM in Yekaterinburg, better known as the White Tower. The initiator of the idea was the public association of young architects and activists of the Arch-Group Podelniki, which last year officially received an abandoned monument to the Soviet avant-garde for free use.

The withered singer in black clothes, black scarves, black glasses and a black hat was surprised by the performance. He spoke more than sang, ”he complained about a frustrated guitar and drove memorized tales, but a crowd of Norwegian youth enthusiastically accepted everything that came from his graying head, planted in the old neck: fake notes and causeless pauses.

Interview Alexander Melikhov, presenting his new book “Through the Triangle” in Novaya Gazeta, teaches the basics of writing, gleaned from the biography of Ilya Ehrenburg: “He tried his whole life to bring European culture and European humanistic values ​​to the country, but in conflicts performed on the side of his state, even if he considered it wrong.

The centenary of the “Spring of the Holy” (a rare anniversary of the work, not the author) is celebrated in 2013 along with the composer anniversaries of Wagner - Verdi - Britten. In Russia, more attention was paid to the ballet side of the matter: the festival and the book “Century of the Spring of the Holy” - Age of Modernism ”in the Bolshoi Theater; Nizhinsky ballet and a new production of Sasha Waltz in Mariinsky.