In his book “On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art,” James Elksa analyzes the divorce between art and religion - and the failures of their meetings in the modern world. The lecture of Elkins on the same topic can be read here . The head of the Five Stories, although it almost does not contain theoretical reasoning, sets the structure of the whole book. The School of the Chicago Institute of Arts is one of the largest art schools, and we are committed to the newest art.

The book of Peter Pavlensky was published The AST publishing house has published a book by Peter Pavlensky "On Russian Ivache." In the 288-page edition of the series "Anghedonia. Danishevsky’s project ” included conversations with the artist, as well as his theoretical text“ Bureaucratic cramp and the new economy of political art ”, the fragment of which COLTA.RU published this year with the permission of Ilya Danishevsky in the winter of this year.

I will make a reservation right away: I am neither a fan nor an expert on science fiction. Unlike many of my peers and most people a little older, I did not watch Richard Viktorov’s films in childhood - “Moscow - Cassiopeia” (1973), “Acles in the Universe” (1974) and “through thorns to the stars” (1980). I saw them only now and turned out to be fascinated by these paintings.

An exhibition of naive art will be held in Moscow © Public Fund of Vladimir Smirnov On August 5, the Gorky Park in Moscow will open an exhibition “Peace in our eyes”, at which works created by people who do not have professional art education will be presented.

The first Russian tour The Prodigy is being prepared © Pop Farm In the fall of 2016, in five cities of Russia - from Siberia to Moscow - the tour of the British group of The Prodigy will be held for the first time. This was reported by the organizers of the tour, the Pop Farm concert agency.

Aquarium postponed the release of the album of the Cavers The release date of the Golden Bouquet album, on which the Aquarium group recorded a cover version of popular Soviet songs, such as “The Blue Ball”, “Dark Night” and “Song of the Increased”, were transferred indefinitely due to the claims of copyright holders.

Within the framework of the Diaghilev festival in Perm for the second time, a ceremony of presenting the All -Russian Prize “Resonance” was held. Its results are less optimistic than a year ago . The best young critic (up to 35 years old) and the best media writing about academic music were not found. The curator of the award Anastasia Zubareva asked the jury and laureates to explain what was happening.

Opposition media close Turkey in Turkey © Politik Yol, Turkish journalists gathered at the court building to support their colleague Bulant Muya, detained on suspicion of involvement in the coup. Istanbul, July 27, 2016 On Wednesday, July 27, the Turkish government ordered to close dozens of media, supporting the Hismett movement Fatuhullah Gulen, whom the authorities consider the ideologist of the failed coup d'etat on July 15-16.

The heads of television channels leave Gazprom-Media In September, the general director of Gazprom-Media holding TV-3 and 2x2 television channels will leave their posts and go to work in the STS Media holding. According to Vedomosti , the general director of TV-3 Daria Fialko will be headed by the STS channel, and the General Director of 2x2 Lev Makarov-the CHE channel.

On July 17, the director Frank Castorf was 65 years old. This is not only an anniversary, but also a kind of border: according to the laws of Germany, Castorf reached retirement age. And from this absolutely predictable and absolutely ordinary circumstance for a long time grew and finally finally grew up a typically Castorf scandal. Pension in Germany is sent punctually - unemployment is high, and, unlike the metro, those who are older are inferior to the place.