Descendants of Rachmaninov against the transfer of his ashes to Russia © Anthony22 / Wikimedia Commons Grave Sergei Rachmaninov at the Kensico cemetery near New York The great-grandson of Sergei Rachmaninov Suzan-Sofia Rachmaninov-Volkonskaya-Uonamika said that she did not intend to violate the composer's last will and transfer his ashes to Russia.

August 21 at the Moscow Strelka Bar will be performed by the Juan Maclean is a group of American electrician John Maklin. Maklin together with the founder D FA Records James Murphy stood at the source of sound, which is associated with New York dance electronics of zero-with albums Rapture , LCD SoundSystem and, of course, the Juan Maclean , where anarchist punk rock, electronic New Weev and the mutant disco of the 1970s fused into a single whole.

CDK will show HBO films on the big screen © HBO From August 22 to 29, in the center of documentary cinema (CDC) in Moscow there will be shows of documentary and feature films by the production of the American television channel NVO. The main event of the joint project of the Central House of Artists and the Onediatek online service will be the premiere of the mini-series “Show me the hero” ( Show Me a Hero ), which will take place simultaneously with the premiere on the NVO .

Mikhail Piotrovsky: Our society hurts © State Hermitage Director of the State Hermitage, President of the Union of Museums of Russia Mikhail Piotrovsky made a statement in connection with an attack on the exhibition in the Moscow Manege.

Aerosmith will perform at the bottom of the city in Moscow © Aerosmith / Facebook On the City Day, September 5, a concert of the American rock band Aerosmith will be held on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow. Information about the concert is given on the official website of the group . Aerosmith formed in 1970, in the 73rd released a debut album. Having overcome the crisis of the early 80s, they were revived in the original composition and became one of the most popular rock groups in the world.

"Garage" will present a video archive of contemporary art of Moscow On August 24, in the new building of the Museum of Contemporary Art “Garage” in Gorky Park, an exhibition of artist Vadim Zakharov “post -scriptum after RIP will open. Video documentation of exhibitions of modern Moscow artists (1989–2014).

Today is 80 years old Oleg Tabakov. COLTA . Ru congratulates Oleg Pavlovich on his birthday and publishes a great interview, which the outstanding Russian actor and theater manager gave alley Shenderova on the eve of the anniversary. “Once, after you played in the“ Seventeen Moments of Spring ”by the head of Hitler's intelligence Schellenberg, his niece sent you a card with the text“ Thank you for the human approach to the image of the uncle ” .

This story is not like the persecution of Avdey Ter-Ogagan, because of which he had to leave Russia in 1998, and the defeat of the exhibition "Caution, religion!" In 2003, although it would seem that these events - from among the domestic - come to mind when you first find out about what happened in the "arena" on August 14, 2015 . Actually, Enteo (Dmitry Tsorionov) is vandal not just because he invaded the exhibition and destroyed the works, but because he attacked things, in fact religious.

Festival "Diaghilev. PS ”announced the program From November 15 to November 24 in St. Petersburg, the VI International Art Festival "Diaghilev. PS ". In his program, the ballet performances of Akram Khan and Israel Galvan, Anjolena Poelzhokazh and Martha Graham, exhibitions and a scientific conference.

Fidelio seems to be not one of the favorite operas of Salzburg. The first half a century of the festival, it was often put by it, while the last performance passed 17 years ago. However, this summer you can’t get tickets for Beethoven. Otherwise, the situation looked at the premiere of 1805, when Fidelio was also called Leonora: the halls were empty. The statement of unsuccessful premiere is usually limited, hinting at the negligence of contemporaries. But the story consists of details.