Tate Britain opened after reconstruction In London, the restoration of the Tate Britan Gallery ended. On Tuesday, November 19, the largest Museum of British art was opened to visitors. According to BBC , the restoration cost 45 million pounds. The changes mainly affected the oldest part of the museum complex, built in 1893 by architect Sydney Smith.

The Moscow group Tinavie , which we already wrote about, released the album “ Kometa ” that we announced this week . He could bring an indie-pop group to a new orbit-if the Russian pop world could not be a set of scarlet stars painted on a television canvas, in which you can only make a hole. COLTA .

Placebo will perform on Subbotnik in Moscow © Kevin Westenberg / Placeboworld.co.uk The headliner of the Svoy Saturday 2014 festival on July 5, 2014 in Gorky Park in Moscow will be the British rock band Placebo. The trio debuted in 1996 with the Placebo album, real success came to musicians with the release of the Third Singeal Nancy Boy , which fell into Top 5 British charts.

The New Times switches to folk funding © The New Times The editor -in -chief of The New Times, Evgeny Albats, reported that from the New Year the publication will be financed by his subscribers. “We work for you. You - finance our investigations, business trips to the hot spots of the country and the world, reports on the events that remain outside the field of vision of other media, ”the editor -in -chief wrote in her appeal to subscribers on the Newtimes.ru website.

The world premiere of the last film by Alexei German-st. It took place a week ago - at the Roman Film Festival. About why the film was shown there, and not, say, in Cannes, you can read in an interview with German-Ml. The result of this decision is already visible now - only one disappointed English -language review, but a bunch of enthusiasm in the regional Italian press.

Monty Python is reunited © IFC John Oklis, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Eric Aidl, Michael Payilin Five participants in the British comedian Monty Python resume joint performances. According to The Independent , on Thursday, November 21, in London, John Okhz, Terry Gilliam, Eric Aidl, Terry Jones and Michael Paylin will give a press conference at which they will talk about their plans.

Don Juan, in the production of Jean-Pierre Vincent, goes on the Comedy Frances's stage for the second season, having resumed three weeks ago, and there would be no trace of writing a belated review of him, if there were already at least some other.

From the schools of Stavropol, they remove the "erotic" Yesenin © Edusite.ru School in the village of Yutsa (Potornore district of the Stavropol Territory) The prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory held a raid in the schools of the region in order to withdraw literature harmful to children and adolescents. Among the seized "Lolit" Vladimir Nabokov and "Erotic verses" by Sergey Yesenin.

Putin instructed to redeem the archive and estate of Rachmaninov in Switzerland © Neue Luzerner Zeitung Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study the issue of buying the Senar estate in Switzerland and the archive of composer Sergei Rakhmaninov.

Akunin will not go to Putin The writer Boris Akunin (Grigory Chkhartishvili) refused to participate in the Russian literary assembly due to the fact that Vladimir Putin will be present at him. Akunin considers the convocation of the Russian literary assembly a big event for the book world. “The authorities finally recognized Russian literature as an important matter, promises state support. He wants to listen to the opinion of writers, ”Akunin wrote on his blog today, November 20.

COLTA.RU continues the “response” heading: dear people, they answer a question that has been ardently discussed recently. Recently, the chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, Elena Mizulina, advocated the ban on surrogate motherhood in Russia, comparing it by destructive power with nuclear weapons. On this occasion, we turned to the representatives of the educated public with the question of whether they see any danger in surrogate motherhood.

Colta.ru continues the encyclopedic series about the history of jazz: famous jazzmen intelligibly explain key concepts and phenomena from the history of the musical direction that changed the 20th century. We are talking about the period from 1940 to the 1970s-about jazz, which is commonly called "modern", or Modern Jazz. A week ago, it was about Bibep , now-about the birth of Kul-jazz. 1940-1950s. Kul-jazz.