The sudden death of David Bowie, an asteroid collapsed two days after the release of his new Blackstar album, gave this plate more meanings than it was even supposed to be its author. The mysterious “Blackstar” , the music, texts and symbols of which can be deciphered as a rosette stone , is now perceived only as the Farewell record of the demiurge - its will, its requiem. However, this is not so.

Stopped online tickets for tickets for the Serov exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery © LJ ABORIGENARBATA / LiveJournal Today, January 22, the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG) has stopped selling Valentin Serov’s exhibition over the Internet because of the too large number of people who want to get to it. The day before, the door to the GTG building was broken, where the exhibition takes place. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Tretyakov Gallery.

The glow is preparing an exhibition of father and son of the Kranakhs © MiMiya Lucas Cranes Senior. Madonna with a baby (Madonna in a vineyard). OK. 1520 (fragment) March 4 at the State Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin (Pushrooms) will open an exhibition at which for the first time in Russia the works of Lucas Kranac of the Elder (1472–1553) and Lucas Kranac Jr. (1515–1586) will be collected together.

In Moscow they are going to demolish the constructivist quarter © Arkhnadzor The Moscow authorities issued an order to demolish a complex of residential buildings of the late 1920s on Pogodinskaya Street, the decision on the preservation of which was previously made by the Commission on urban planning activities of the Moscow City Hall. According to Archnadzor , a complex of residential buildings "Pogodinskaya", built according to the project of architects A.N. Volkova, Ya.E. Ostrovsky, V.I.

In 1952, in the article “Is God”, the mathematics and philosopher Bertrane Russell, the famous reasoning appeared about the teapot in space: “If I began to say that a porcelain kettle rotates between the earth and Mars around the Sun, no one could refute my statement, I add a prudent that the kettle is too small to find it even with the most powerful telescopes ".

Publisher Ilya Danishevsky prepares a book of conversations with Peter Pavlensky for printing. The collection also includes the theoretical text of Pavlensky “Bureaucratic cramp and the new economy of political art” - a kind of manifesto of the artist. Colta.ru thanks Ilya Danishevsky for the opportunity to publish this fragment. Political art and authorities. The situation gives rise to an event, behind it, as a shadow, a reaction crawls.

Rusfond: Money for the treatment of Jeanne Friske stolen © Channel One One of the largest charitable foundations in Russia, the Russian Assistance Fund (Rusfond) announced that funds raised for her treatment disappeared from the account of the pop singer of Zhanna Friske. This was written by Kommersant with reference to the message of the legal service of Rusfond. In 2013, Jeanne Friske was diagnosed with cancer, since January 2014 it has been treated in the United States.

The Chilean architect Alejandro Araveno became the laureate of the Pritzker Prize - the main architectural award of the world. The community reaction to this event reflects the emerging fracture in the criteria for evaluating architecture. The award of the Pritzker Prize “The Architect for the Poor” Alejandro Araven is not such a surprise.

Olga Turchina will give a lecture on the Khrushchev thaw © "Soyuzmultfilm" Frame from the cartoon "Case with the artist" In the Moscow Gallery “On Shabolovka”, as part of the “Laughter in the Hall” exhibition, an art critic and curator Olga Turchina will be held “And the iron curtain has opened ...”, in which she will tell about the Khrushchev thaw.

The Rector of Moscow State University accused the West of reducing the number of foreign students The reasons for the reduction in the number of students from abroad, the rector of Moscow State University, Viktor Sadovnichy, called the low positions in foreign ratings and the bias of the Western media against Russian universities. It is reported by Interfax . “Foreign students at Moscow State University are 6230 people, half of this composition are branches.

"Factory" will show an ecological video exhibition © Gianluca Abbate / Tsti "Factory" Dzhanluka Abbate. Panorama. 2014 From February 15 to March 12 at the Center for Creative Industry “Factory” in Moscow, the Center for Media Art “Now & Then” will hold an exhibition of video artists from Sweden, Russia, Italy, Great Britain and Spain “Ecoscope/Ecoscope”, dedicated to the problems of ecology and the relations of man and nature.

Within the framework of our project “Cinema Believe” today from 11:00 to 23:00, watch the film by Julia Kiseleva “Self -nominee” - the story of the civil activist Daria Sorokina, who went to municipal deputies and first believed in Bolotnaya, and then in Putin. The film was awarded a special mention of the jury on Artdokfest-2015. Learn more about the experience of other self -nominates on a protest wave; Some of them were disappointed, and some continue to fight.

The first in the new year, the premiere of the Stanislavsky electricheatter on January 23 will be a joint project with the production company Vottebe, which made itself the name of the sensational projects “Theater Insomnia” and “Theater Almanac”.

David O. Russell removed another “fighter”, but this time in the female version. “Joy” is also a film in the genre of success history, but not in boxing, but in business. And so - the heroine Jennifer Lawrence has almost the same zero starting position that Christian Bale had. And a very large dysfunctional family - at the same time support and encumbrance.

Colta.ru, in collaboration with the journalistic Union N-SST and the Telekritika.ua site, continues the new project “Stereoscope” , the task of which is to give the floor to journalists from Russia, Ukraine and the countries of the European Union, people of different views and representatives of different camps. The Polish journalist Peter Skvochinsky reflects on the issues of handshake and conversation in application to his own country.