On April 21, the experimental project “Drawings from the air” began in St. Petersburg: curators, philosophers, artists from Russia and Europe for a year and a half will explore the archive of the art studio-art association at a neuropsychiatric boarding school No. 3 in Old Peterhof. In 2001, the art studio was founded by psychologist Julia Pakhomova and artist Olga Konysheva from the Prospect of the charity organization. Artists are a boarding school residents, special people.

Nora Gal Award summed up © Memorial site Nora Gal On April 27, in the Turgenev library in Moscow, the results of the fifth season of the Nora Gal Award for the translation of short prose from English were summed up. The main award of 2016 was awarded to Anna Blaise for the translation of the "calendar of fairy tales" Nile Gaiman. This was reported to Colta.ru by the founders of the award - translator and publisher Dmitry Kuzmin and editor and critic Edward Kuzmin.

The sale of tickets to the London concert of Zemfira has been opened Today, April 29. The sale of tickets to Zemfira’s concert, which will be held in London on November 6 at the O2 Academy Brixton, began. Tickets are available on the website of the Ticketweb operator. A concert on the stage where The Clash, Sex Pistols , David Bowie, Amy Winehouse, The Blur and Radiohead were a part of the Little Man touring tour.

Boris Andrianov will head the chamber music festival in Tretyakov Gallery From May 29 to June 5, the first festival of chamber music Vivarte will be held in the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG). The artistic director of the festival is the cellist Boris Andrianov. Vivarte will combine chamber music and painting, tradition and avant -garde.

Victor Viktorovich Davydov (Ryzhov; born August 1, 1956, Kuibyshev) - journalist, human rights activist. In 1973-1975 he studied at the Kuibyshev Technical University, in 1975 he entered the historical faculty of Kuibyshev University. Since 1974, he was engaged in the publication and spread of Samizdat, about which in September 1975 he was interrogated in the KGB.

Mariinki Symphony Orchestra will perform in 20 cities of Russia © sgaf.ru Today, April 29, concerts in Tula, Orel and Kursk began the Russian tour of the Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater and Valery Gergiev, preceding the XV Moscow Easter Festival. For 19 days they will perform in 20 cities of Russia.

An open database of victims of political repression in the USSR appeared on the Internet On April 28, I earned an online project “Open List”-a Wiki platform to collect information about people who suffered from state terror in 1917-1991. The creators took the base of the “victim of political terror in the USSR” of the Memorial Society “Memorial” as the basis of the “open list”.

“Instant Articles” (I don’t know how to translate into Russian “Instant Articles” ) appeared on Facebook a year ago. Then the social network gave a dozen American and British publications the opportunity to publish articles that can be read without leaving the application on the phone. A year has passed, and at the F8 conference this technology was given this technology.

Alexander Rodnyansky entered the jury of the "Golden Cam" of the Cannes Festival © Press Service A Company Russia Russian film producer, president of the Kinotavr festival, Alexander Rodnyansky, became part of the jury of the Kannsky Festival “Golden Cam”, which is awarded for the best directorial debut. This was reported by TASS with reference to the organizers of the Cannes festival. Alexander Rodnyansky (b.

Travel to Italy “No more actors, no story, no scenery - in short, in the ideal aesthetic illusion of reality there is no more movie,” Andre Bazin fantasized about the wonderful future, discussing de Siki's “kidnappers”.

The executioner, slinging his finger, checks the severity of the guillotine. On a wooden cart is taken a criminal in a wig and with a pipe in his teeth. The accusation is read: the revolutionary tribunal accuses Baron Balthazar of criminal correspondence. The audience - all women with knitting in their hands and in caps on their heads - yells joyfully and rejoice. The sentenced is asked to remove the phone from the mouth, but it shakes his head negatively.

The Kremlin commented on an attack on guests of the school competition "Memorial" © Press Service of the President of Russia Today, April 29, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov made a comment in connection with the attack by the House of Cinema in Moscow on the participants in the awarding ceremony of the winners of the historical work of high school students conducted by the Memorial Society.

The Jewish Museum will hold the symposium "Museum of Picturesian Culture" On May 12, the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance in Moscow will be a symposium “Museum of Paints Culture”, which will discuss the issues raised by the exhibition “Transferring. Collections of the Russian avant -garde from regional museums.

The jury of the Venice Film Festival will be headed by Sam Mendes The chairman of the jury of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, which will be held from August 31 to September 10, 2016, will be the British theater and film director, producer and playwright Sam Mendes.

Opera "White Nights" will sound for the first time at the Mariinsky Theater © Ilya Glazunov Ilya Glazunov. Nastenka leaves. Illustration for the story F.M. Dostoevsky "White Nights". 1970 (fragment) On Saturday, April 30, in the hall of Prokofiev (Mariinsky-2), soloists of the Academy of Young Opera Singers of the Mariinsky Theater, led by Larisa Gergieva, will first fulfill the opera Yuri Butsko “White Nights”.