The artist Elena Volkova died On Tuesday, October 8, in the year 98, artist Elena Volkova, a legend of naive art, died. Elena Andreevna Volkova was born in 1915 in the city of Chuguev, not far from the house where Ilya Repin was born. Her mother was a peasant woman, her father worked as a rescuer on the Seversky Donets River. In 1934, she began working as an assistant cinema mechanic in a mobile film installation. Volkova did not receive art education.

Natalia Timakova will take up culture and cinema in the government © NTV The implementation of state policy in the field of culture and cinematography in the Russian government is assigned to Natalia Timakov, a press secretary of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. It is reported by RIA Novosti . Earlier, these functions were performed by the deputy head of the government apparatus Denis Molchanov.

Vinzavod canceled the exhibition of Rob Hornstra © Rob Hornstra The Winzavod Center with the exhibition of The Sochi Project of the Dutch photographer Rob Hornstra, which was supposed to open on October 18. The exhibition about the region of Sochi is part of the cultural program of the Year of Russia-Golland, it received financial support for the governments of Russia and the Netherlands. Rob Hornstra and writer Arnold Van Brugen have been working on The Sochi Project since 2009.

Nobel Prize was awarded Alice Manro © CBC Today, October 10, in Stockholm, the Nobel Prize in the 2013 Literature Prize was held. The reward was received by the Canadian writer Alice Manro.

Marcus IMHOF “more than honey”/ III Festival of Actual Scientific Cinema 360 ° The film of Marcus Imphof “More than Honey” (Switzerland, Germany, Austria; 2012) tells about people whose life and work are associated with bees, as well as about the amazing world and complex intelligence of the beeland. This picture will be shown at the opening of the III festival of relevant scientific cinema 360 ° and at other sessions of the film festival. You can read more about the film here .

The accused of the murder of Adeleheim was nominated for a national film award © VKontakte Cinema Operator Sergei Pchelintsev, who are accused of the murder of the Pskov priest Pavel Adeelheim, is nominated for the National Prize in the field of non -game cinema and television "Lavr". The surname of Pchelintseva is present in the short list of “Laurus” in the category “Best in profession in 2013-Operator” on the Prize website . Pchelintsev is nominated for the award for work on the film "Katya".

At the end of September, Vladimir Medinsky announced that the Ministry of Culture was about to announce scenario applications for the competition of anniversary film bookings Lermontov (in 2014 the 200th anniversary of Mules will be widely celebrated). On the official page of the competitions of the Ministry, no traces of the state order for the biography of Mikhail Yuryevich have yet been discovered.

Moscow will restore the monument to Dzerzhinsky © Artyom Mochalov pedestal of the monument to Dzerzhinsky in the park "Museon" The Moscow City Committee on pricing policy in the construction and state examination of projects (Moskom Expertise) announced plans to restore seven famous Moscow monuments. Among them, a monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Daniel Danchik "Expedition to the End of the World"/III Festival of Actual Scientific Cinema 360 ° Daniel Danchik’s film “Expedition to the End of the World” (Switzerland, Germany, Austria; 2012), telling about the journey of artists and scientists to the ice arrays of the North-Eastern Greenland, will be shown at the III festival of relevant scientific cinema 360 °. You can read more about this film here .

Isabella Stengers is a prominent philosopher of science, professor of Brussels University. The author of a number of studies on the history of science (mainly physics, chemistry, biology, psychoanalysis), books on the connections of science with power and society. Often acted as a co -author - L. Chertok, T. Nathan, F. Pignara ... Both books written by her together with I. Prigozhin were translated into Russian: “Order from Chaos” (“Progress”, 1986) and “Time. Chaos.

COLTA . RU is reviving the project "Likbez" , in which famous experts will represent their view on the fundamental concepts and phenomena of culture. We decided to start with the classics of fine art by organizing a walk-excursion of an amateur and connoisseur of the old European painting Alexander Timofeevsky and art critic Gleb Napenko on the recently closed Titian exhibition in the Pushkin Museum.

On the new BDT stage, the project “Stravinsky. The story of a soldier " On Friday, October 11, the Great Drama Theater named after G. A. Tovstonogov, with the support of the Swiss Council for Culture “About Helvetia”, will present the joint Russian-Swiss project “Stravinsky. The story of a soldier. " “Stravinsky. History of a soldier” is a pilot project of the BDT in the new musical and dramatic concept of the Kamennoostrovsky Theater.

Kirill Ivanov, the frontman of an adult group with a children's attitude “The largest simple number”, spent the summer with great benefit - he not only worked as a counselor in the Kamchatka children's creative camp, for which Philip Bakhtin left the Esquire magazine, but also brought a new video clip from there, from which he could imagine what was happening in Kamchatka before and after an end.

In my hands, the Constitution of the Russian Federation. I read out loud: "Censorship is prohibited." The youngest daughter, who hears this, is noticeably straining: “No, mother! No need to prohibit anything! " I lay out this quote from the 29th chapter of the Basic Law to Facebook and also strain-just in case. Thus begins a week of prohibited books - simultaneously with a similar annual action of the American Library Association and the International Amnesty.

The theater marathon is being prepared to help Vladimir Ageev The Russian theater director, laureate of the Seagull Award and the Golden Mask festival Vladimir Ageev will have an operation to transplant bone marrow. In order to collect money for it, on October 20, a charitable theater marathon is held in the Theater Center “on the passionate”. It was originally planned to give a charity performance.