According to the strange law of the Russian book market, a good book must be disguised as bad so that, God forbid, no one guessed that it should be bought and read.

The Satyricon rehearses "All shades of blue" © "Maryina Grove" Reading the play by Vladimir Zaitsev "All the shades of blue" at the festival "Drama. New code "in Krasnoyarsk At the Moscow Theater "Satyricon" there are rehearsals of the play based on the play by Vladimir Zaitsev "All the shades of Blue." Director-winner-Konstantin Raikin, artist-Dmitry Razumov.

The Enlightener Award opens the season © Prize "Enlightener" The prize in the field of popular science literature "Enlightener" announced the opening of the new season of 2015 and the beginning of receiving books for the competition. This year, from March 2 to May 15, books of the popular science genre on any subjects originally written in Russian and are on primary sale, regardless of the date of the publication, are accepted on the competition .

The business card of the Alliance group is “at dawn”, the most ornate rock hit of the Soviet Union, which, despite its musical sophistication, can still be heard on radio waves, and at a disco, and in a Sochi restaurant. This complex song, soaring upside down in the chorus, is still trying to pick up and, not embarrassed, to sing in chorus in public places, which is actually not very typical of the Russian nation.

Films of the Venice Festival will be shown in Moscow © CoolConnections Frame from the film "Women Leo. Sophie talks about Loren " From March 3 to 7, the Moscow Cinema Cinema will host the Italian cinema festival “From Venice to Moscow”, which will show films of the 71st Venetian International Film Festival. According to the organizers, the CoolConnces artifications, the festival will open the film "The Amazing Younger" directed by Mario Marton.

Goethe Institute begins the lecture cycle "Image and Politics" © Tools for Action Arthur Van Balen. Promotion on Bolotnaya Embankment in Moscow. 2013 On March 3, a new cycle of lectures of the Goethe-Institute in Moscow will open-“Image and Politics”, affecting the field of research at the intersection of art history, political science, filming, philosophy, as well as the theory of visuality and media.

An unprecedented situation has developed around the new products of the Siberian Coliseum - Wagner Opera Tangeyer . In connection with the complaint of the Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsky Tikhon on February 24 , the case of an administrative offense was opened against the director Timofei Kulyabin and the director of the theater Boris Mezdrich. Ekaterina Biryukova phoned both. Boris Mezdrich, Director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater - Every day the situation is changing.

The art critic Anatoly Strigalev died Vladimir Tatlin. The project of the monument to the III International. 1919 On February 25, at the 91st year of life, art critic Anatoly Strigalev, historian of early Soviet architecture and Russian avant-garde, died. It is reported by The Art NewPaper Russia . Anatoly Anatolyevich Strigalev was born in 1924 in Moscow, graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (1952), and worked at the State Institute of Art of Theory and History of Architecture.

Colta.ru continues a joint project that was conceived and implemented by colleagues from the N-SST (Union of Journalists covering events in Eastern Europe) with the support of Frankfurter Allgemeine and the Polish weekly Tygodnik Paowszechny . The English version of materials can be read on sites www.stpol.de and Transitions Online . We are glad to be a Russian platform for publishing these texts. What do they think in Ukraine about what is happening with the country today?

Islamists destroy the Assyrian monuments in Iraq In the city of Mosul in the north of Iraq, militants of the Islamic state of Iraq and Levant (ISIS, terrorist organization prohibited in Russia) destroy monuments of Assyrian art. A video from the museum in Mosul appeared on the Internet, where the Islamists dump them to the floor of the sculpture and break them with sledgehammers and a drill, BBC reports. The video also shows the destruction of statues at the site of archaeological excavations.

Bach festival will be held in Moscow From March 1 to 21, the Moscow Conservatory in the Moscow Conservatory and the State Institute of Art of Art in Johann Sebastian Bach will host the international festival BWV 2015. Its main event will be the world premiere of the Art Fugus cycle, ended and instrumented by Rudolph Barshai (1924-2010). Barshay considered the completion and instrumentation of the last work of Bach with a matter of his life.

The Yalta film studio is nationalized Today, February 27, the Crimean State Council included the republics of the land and real estate of the Yalta film studio. “The inclusion in the ownership of the Republic of Crimea of ​​the property of the Yalta Cinema Studio CJSC is due to the need for its further use for the needs of the Republic of Crimea,” Interfax quotes an explanatory note to the decree of the Crimean parliament.