The concept of a single textbook of history, appeal to traditional values, attempts to censored in the field of culture - all this forces today to talk about the state -in -the -level of the state archaicization of society at the state level. What is this threatened with and how culture can become an obstacle to modernization, says Alexander Arkhangelsky. The lecture was given as part of the Gaidpark-2015 summer school of the Yegor Gaidar fund . Colta.ru publishes the lecture text.

... Rainy autumn of 1972, the search for alternative ways of development (crushing) of the psychedelic revolution brought William Burrose to the hero city of Leningrad.

Yandex returned to the old Kinopoisk © "Kinopoisk" Yandex, listening to criticism of users of the largest Russian -speaking portal about the Kinopoisk movie, returned access to its old version. A message about this appeared today, October 12, on the KinoPoisk blog .

In Moscow, at the festival of book design "Firebreaker" , two famous Swiss specialists-Francois Rappo and Jonas Fedheli made lectures with lectures. Valery Ledenyov asked Feogeli about the principles of his work. - I can not help but ask the most general and naive question - why does the book need a design? - Of course, the book is, first of all, the carrier of information and the keeper of knowledge. But communication is always important in culture.

In Russia, theology is recognized as a scientific specialty The Presidium of the Higher Certification Commission (Higher Attestation Commission) under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation approved the passport of the scientific specialty "Theology". This was reported by the Russian Newspaper . The passport is published on the VAK website.

The new program of the Center for Vanguard is opened On Thursday, October 15, the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance in cooperation with the Encyclopedia of the Russian Avangard will open a new program of the avant -garde center, which is the curator of the art of art history, one of the leading experts in the Russian avant -garde Andrei Sarabeanov.

Perm opera will broadcast the Enigma concert © Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after P.I. Tchaikovsky Theodore Krentzis On Tuesday, October 13, the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after P.I. Tchaikovsky will conduct a direct broadcast of the concert of the Musicaeterna orchestra under the direction of Theodore Kurentsis with the participation of pianist Polina Ossetian. The concert program has not been disclosed.

A short list of the Association of Musical Critics of Moscow was announced © Moscow State Academic Philharmonic Vladimir Yurovsky The Association of Musical Critics of Moscow (AMC) announced a short list of the first annual prize of criticism for the 2014/15 season. “The prize is awarded for achievements in the field of musical and musical and theater in the past season,” the AMC website said in a message.

In the 90s, Gergievskaya Mariinka was the opera leader of the country, in the 2000s he actively entered the game Bolshoi with Chernyakov, Ratmansky and Tratnikov, in the 2010s the Kurentsisov Perm became the new “place of power”. Probably, not everyone remembers that in the 80s the most interesting opera city was Sverdlovsk.

- Arseny Zhilyaev, as we know , no longer works with the Cosmonautics Museum, but the exhibition “The Cradle of Humanity. The philosophy of cosmism, ”which he prepared, has opened. How did it happen? - These are absolutely unrelated things. Arseny does not have a patent on the phrase “cradle of humanity”: its author is a completely different person - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will replenish the company to counteract the falsifiers of history © Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation In 2016, a scientific company will be created on the basis of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to expose falsification of military history. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (RF Armed Forces).

““ Arkady ”is a trip 14 years long with the poet Vladimir Gandelsman. It begins at the Central Station of New York in 2001, shortly after the attack on September 11, and ends 14 years later on the other side of the Hudson River. Whatever places to open along the way - whether it is the steaming ruins of the towers or the street of Bronx, the park or the Metro car, Arkady - that is, the paradise, as the poets called it, is present and appearing in them, ”the author’s annotation says to the film.

Ivan Demidov will develop contemporary art © Young Guard "United Russia" The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered the Modern Art Development Fund, which was headed by former Deputy Minister of Culture Ivan Demidov. The fund will be non -state and intends to collect private donations, Kommersant reports.