The Kostroma group Ocean Jet, which is equal to Depeche Mode, Hurts and Imagine Dragons, debuted last year with the album of Vengeance. And her peppy English-speaking synth-pop was perfectly accepted by Russian listeners: Ocean Jet played at the VKontakte large festivals, Stereoleto and Lenovo Vibe Fest, won the competition of young musicians, arranged by Sennheiser, and got into the soundtrack of Maxim Kulagin "Caulist", The jury took a special prize at the Kinotavr.

An independent film festival "Artifact" is created On April 24, in the Shags club in the Center for Creative Industry "Factory" in Moscow, the organizational assembly of the independent three -part film festival "Artifact" will be held.

A lecture on sex in late Soviet cinema will take © "Lenfilm" Frame from the film "Winter Cherry" (1985) On April 19, in Moscow, the culturologist Jan Levchenko will give a lecture “There was a team” can be! ” Opening of sex in late Soviet cinema.

Leo Dodin released a performance called Hamlet, although Shakespeare’s play for him is not only not an object of research, but not even a reference point. This is only a kind of cultural and worldview myth, which Dodin declares already in the program, before the start of action. “Maybe there is a great revival, including one of the heights of the intellectual and spiritual enrichment of the ancient barbaric principles of revenge, hatred, murder, destruction.

Teachers and graduates of the Moscow Conservatory opposed the dismissal More than 300 employees and graduates of the Moscow Conservatory turned to the Academic Council of the university and its chairman, rector of the conservatory Alexander Sokolov with an open letter in connection with the dismissal of professors Svetlana Savenko, Natalia Simakova and Elena Sorokina. The fact that they received notifications of dismissal became known a week ago.

In early May, the Corpus publishing house is a collection of Laureate of the Pulitzer Prize Michael Cunningham “Wild Swan and other fairy tales” (translated by Dmitry Karelsky). Ilya Danishevsky met with the author in New York and discussed with him a new book, the problem of homophobia in America and Russia, as well as [in itself] censorship. (The meeting took place as part of the Pen America “The Closing of the Russian Mind?

The program of the Cannes Festival was announced © Festival de Cannes Today, April 14, films of competitive programs of the 69th International Cannes Film Festival became known. The film "Special View" is involved in the film "Pupil". According to the official website of the Cannes Festival, in the main competition program 20 films: Tony Erdman (Toni Erdmann, Germany), dir. Maren Ada; "Juliet" (Julieta, Spain), dir. Pedro Almodovar; "American cutie" (American Honey, Great Britain-Ssha), dir.

The Historical Museum is developing virtual tours By the end of 2016, the State Historical Museum on Red Square in Moscow will launch individual virtual excursions: anyone will be able to study its exhibition by downloading the navigator application on their mobile device.

Pushkin Museum opened a representative office at Arzamas A new special project was opened on the website of the Arzamas educational project - a representative office of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Pushrooms). The page of the Pushkin Museum of the special project is divided into three blocks: “Voting”, “10 paintings” and “Puzzle: old masters”.

Declared a short list of an international booker © The Man Booker Prizes On Wednesday, April 13, a short list of finalists of the 2016 International Buker Prize was published. It included six books of writers from Austria, Angola, Italy, China, South Korea and Turkey. According to the Prize website , each of them will receive a thousand pounds, and 50 thousand will share the author and translator of the novel, recognized as the best.

COLTA.RU continues a new project - we hope that it will become the beginning of a large and meaningful conversation about the plots that Russian society prefers not to notice or misunderstand. How to recognize sexism and not fall into it yourself? How to find your own “-IM” and learn to navigate in modern gender diversity? What is this "gender"?

"Rain": Mikhail Prokhorov is trying to make RBC sell © RBC Today, April 14, in Moscow, law enforcement officers conducted searches in several companies of the ONEXIM group Mikhail Prokhorov. According to the rain, the searches may be related to an attempt to put pressure on the entrepreneur so that he agrees to sell the RBC media holding belonging to him. This "Rain" reports with reference to sources in RBC.