In the electronic living room of the Polytechnic Museum, a series of lectures of the Moscow electronic musician and collector Andrei Orlov continues, dedicated to electronic music of the 70s and 80s, which, for various reasons, turned out to be, as they say, “below the radar” (the previous lecture was dedicated to the Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra ). The theme of the meeting May 27 is the electronics of the countries of the former Yugoslavia.

Control over the space is carried out in two ways: by direct physical control and through the mediating layer of metaeography. The metaeography here is the mental and conceptual framework that set our perception of space and the boundaries of the terms in which we understand the world. The question of how to relate to the dominant methageography immediately leads into an ethical direction.

Putin canceled the meeting with Elton John © NBC News Contrary to the preliminary agreement, Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be able to meet with the British singer Elton John, who gives a concert in Moscow on May 30. About TASS reports with reference to the press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov. “We corresponded with him a couple of weeks ago.

Bastrykin: The national idea needs state-legal consolidation © Press Service of the President of Russia The chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR), Alexander Bastrykin, said that “a national idea is needed and needs state-legal consolidation,” and proposed the basic principles of its formation.

At the closure of the MMKF, Woody Allen will show the “secular life” © Lionsgate On the last day of the 38th Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) on June 30, Woody Allen's new film “Café Society” will be shown. This was reported by the MMKF website. The romantic comedy “Secular Life” tells the story of a young man who in the 1930s goes to Hollywood in search of work in the film industry, falls in love and drawn into the stormy secular life of those years.

The countdown continues until the opening of the fair outside the morality of the “swollen eye” . Each of the eight days before the grandiose holiday-on the border-can, we publish one thesis against the logic of compassionate voyerism and lifeless moralization. Theses are published in the order of increasing the strength of their moral impact.

In the Ministry of Culture, violations of the procedure for exporting objects of iconism from the country were found George Nyssa. Above the snow. 1964 (fragment) in 2014 at Russian auction Sotheby's, the picture was sold for 1.76 million pounds with an expert assessment of 800 thousand rubles The audit, conducted in early 2016, the Prosecutor General’s Office revealed serious violations of the law when the Ministry of Culture issues permits for the export of cultural values ​​abroad.

The Saratov region will host a festival of theaters of small cities in Russia © State Theater of Nations On May 28, the XIV festival of theaters of small cities in Russia will open in the city of Volsk, the Saratov Region, in which 13 creative groups from 11 Russian regions will take part.

The news of this debut has excited the minds and the Black Market for a year: Anna Netrebko will debut in her first Wagnerian role - Elsa in Loellerin Richard Wagner. Well, or almost the first-at the dawn of a foggy opera youth, even before the Salzburg debut, Anna sang one of the "girls-flower" in the "Parsifal" of the Mariinsky Theater.

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.

Today, May 26, in Moscow, at six sites, Beat Film Festival opens. The program of film screenings is very extensive, diverse and in detail commented on by the organizers themselves (the rare case when the official annotations of the films do not confuse the viewer, but give comprehensive and emotionally colored information).

Beat Film Festival begins Today, May 26, at the Institute of Media, Architecture and Design of Strelka in Moscow, the film “Daft Punk Freed” will open a documentary movie about the new culture of Beat Film Festival.

On May 26, the Belarusian electronic artist Mustelide , successfully touring in European festivals, released the animated arthouse of the SPI. The director of the video was Vitaly Sidoruk - a famous Minsk animator, now living in Slovenia. “SPI” is a title composition from the second album Mustelide . Natalia Kunitskaya (Mustelide) The sound concept of the song "SPI" maximally displays the state of sleep.

In Moscow, a lecture will be held on the search for secret archives of Paraguayan special services © vivaparaguay Martin Almada June 8 in the library named after F.M. Dostoevsky in Moscow International Memorial and The Right Livelihood Award will provide a lecture “In the search for secret archives of Paraguayan special services. Martin Almad about his finds. ” Martin Almada (b. 1937) - Paraguayan dissident and writer, author of the book Paraguay.

A free movie marathon will be held on Palace Square © 2016, Yulia / Flickr More than 30 Soviet and Russian films will be shown from June 16 to 19 at the Film and Music Festival "Petersburg Vacations", which will be held in the open air on Palace Square. The entrance to the festival is free.