An essay contest for participation in the spring school inliberty is held In the continuation and development of the cycle of public lectures “Ethics Return”, the Inliberty educational project announces a set to the spring school, whose participants will have to discuss the main dilemmas of moral philosophy and learn to use moral categories to solve public problems.

This year, Colta.ru decided to go to the experiment and invited to temporary curators over the section “Photo projects” of young and talented representatives of leading Russian photocurium. We divided the calendar year between six curators and asked them to select the most interesting samples of modern Russian photography for publication.

A criminal case was opened on Anton Nosik © Anton Nossik / Facebook The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) opened a case on the blogger of Anton Nosik under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "The excitement of hatred or enmity, as well as the humiliation of human dignity." According to Echo of Moscow , the case was initiated in connection with the fast of the nose “erase Syria from the face of the earth” , published last fall in his blog in the “Live Journal”.

"Innovation" split due to Pavlensky © HCCI Four members of the Expert Council of the All -Russian contest of modern visual art “Innovation” left its composition in protest against the withdrawal from the competition “Threat” by Peter Pavlensky.

The exhibition of Rokotov opens in the Tretyakov Gallery © State Tretyakov Gallery Fedor Rokotov. Portrait of an unknown in the blue caftan. 1770s (fragment) From February 19 to April 24 in the engineering building of the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG), the exhibition "Fedor Rokotov (1735/1736–1808) will be held. According to the HTG website , 40 works of the artist will be first represented in the context of the world of manor culture.

The main voice of the St. Petersburg trio is Mikhail Fenichev’s psycholician, whom connoisseurs of the Russian underground of the 2000s are remembered for a non-standard rap group 2H Company. “Eat to eat” became a continuation of 2h Company: the music has changed, the texts of Fenichev remained the same tongue delay, puzzling and fantastic. We can say that the songs “eat to eat” are something like a surreal fan. More precisely - that it is just something.

The best eco-films will be shown in the CDC © Alexey Marfin / Unknown Fields Division Frame from the movie Blue Eye I (Global Challenge program) From February 25 to 29, in the center of documentary cinema (CDC), Moscow will host the VII International Festival of Green Documentary Cinema EcoCup, in the program of which there are 14 full-length films for ecos and two short programs from 19 countries of the world.

Strictly speaking, I have nothing to add to what Elena Rybakova wrote in her brilliant article “New Russian Life”. I was not present on the debates of the “nose”, so I can judge the progress of the discussion only by video. But in the article, an assessment of the decision of the jury, which awarded the prize by the book “The Tale and Life of Danila Terentyevich Zaitsev,” seems to me completely accurate in detail and in general.

Declared short list "Innovation" © HCCI The State Center for Contemporary Art (HCSI) has published a list of nominees of the XI All -Russian competition in the field of modern visual art "Innovation". The short list is compiled in all nominations, with the exception of the main one-the “work of visual art”.

From the Doc Peter I in Kronstadt will make a museum © 2013, Vladimir Kesling / Kezling.ru The St. Petersburg authorities announced plans to create a museum in a dock built in the XVIII century in Kronstadt under the project of Peter I. The cost of the project is estimated at 6 billion rubles, the deadline is 2017. This was reported by TASS with reference to the chairman of the Investment Committee of St. Petersburg Irina Babyuk, who presented the project at a meeting of the city government.

Yuri Orlitsky will give a lecture on Henry Sapgira in Moscow © Museum Vadim Sidur On Thursday, February 18, a lecture by Yuri Orlitsky about the poet Henry Sapgira and the Sapgir-Quadro project, which was carried out in the museum in the mid-1990s, will take place in the Museum of Vadim Sidur in Moscow.

Handed "Grammy" © The Grammys / YouTube Taylor Swift In Los Angeles, the 58th Grammy Award ceremony was held, which is annually awarded by the American Academy of Sound Recording. In the nomination "Album of the Year" was won by the 1989 record of the American pop caminet of singer Taylor Swift.

There is a fundraiser in support of the publication about post -Soviet Russia A caudfunding campaign has been announced on the Internet in support of the Almanac-30 publication, which plans to release an independent cross-media project “last 30”, dedicated to the study of thirty years in the history of Russia-from 1985 to the present day. The project "last 30" was launched in April 2015.