It's not about whether you want to become an artist, but whether you are ready to be to the end. Joseph Ginzburg, having lived for 77 years, never left the underground. He died less than a year ago, although old friends and acquaintances believed that he had not been alive for a long time. When I settled him in my room, he wanted to pierce the window to finally isolate himself from the whole world. He was quite enough for art and reading, he had many quirks, but he was harmless man.

In Moscow, the prize for the best translation from German was first awarded © Alexey Alyonkin / Goethe-Institut On September 29, the first ceremony of the awarding of the winners of the German translation prize Merk for the best translation from German into Russian was held at the Moscow residence of the German Ambassador. “Many translators rightfully consider themselves representatives of" cultural diplomacy.

Tolstoy and Dostoevsky are offered to remove from the school curriculum The President of the Russian Academy of Education (RAO), Deputy Chairman of the Society of Russian Literature, Lyudmila Verbitsky, believes that the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky should not be held at the school.

The exhibition “Artist”, which is held at the Moderna Museet branch, at first glance seems very strange. What might be absurd than such a name - probably, only the exhibition "Art". In fact, this is one of the most thoughtful and interesting projects that I have seen in recent years. The exposition is collected from works included in three collections - Moderna Museet itself, the National Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts.

The theme of the eighth issue of "Disagreements" - "What is an artist?" Gleb Napapenko as the editor -in -chief of the magazine is trying to understand how to answer such a question. An artist working on a table that no one knows about - is he an artist? But they learned about him - and now he is probably an artist - and not only in the present tense, but also in the past - now he was already an artist before. The present changes the past.

The season of musical openares in Russia has come to an end, but it continues in the USA. In this weekend, from September 30 to October 2, hundreds of thousands of music lovers will gather in the Park of the Zilker of the Texas city of Austin at one of the largest American festivals Austin City Limits , where LCD SoundSystem, Major Lazer, M83, Foor, Foor Cinema Club. Mumford & Sons, Miike Snow and other groups of different genres.

The Cinema Foundation will additionally allocate 300 million for Russian films' The Board of Trustees of the Film Fund decided to support several domestic film projects in the production of a total of 300 million rubles. “It will be their own funds of the fund, they are allocated on the basis of 100% of the repayment,” the movie website said in a message.

Stanislav Belkovsky Dmitry Bykov Led Garina Andrey Kuraev Ksenia Sobchak Maxim Sokolov Vsevolod Chaplin Dmitry Bykov writer To the list To recognize this problem existing means taking another step into the abyss. Let's see now: in principle, contraceptives are good or bad? Is Ivan the Terrible - a sadist or a statesman? I think that discussions on this subject help to distract society from real problems, this is the most reliable way to blur reality. Such a polemic is of three types.

Trying to understand what the artist is today, the Disagreement magazine publishes the Report of the Agency of Russia Behind the Borderlines about the Parisian personal exhibition of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The first in Europe-23 Personal exhibition of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin opened last week at the Paris branch of the Russian History Museum. The multimillion -dollar lines lined up from the formidable Montmartre to the new Stalingrad.

Evgenia Volunkova: "The privileges of those who remained in Russia" The editor -in -chief of “such cases” on how to beat sour cream into oil, write about people, regardless of their mistakes, fight for the “deep” reader and work where it is very difficult, but necessary 12 July 2023 9252 Meeting on the sling (first three hours) The five -hour conversation of Elena Kovalskaya, Nadia Plungan, Yuri Saprykin and Alexander Ivanov about why today it is necessary to be in Russia.

The Theater of Nations prepares the first premiere in the new season on the big stage - the outstanding Polish director Grzegozh Yazhin debuts in Russia with the production of Ivonna , Princess Burgundy Vitold Gombrovich. Christina Matvienko spoke with one of the leading theater directors of modern Europe, and one of the leading theatrical directors of modern Europe, specially for Colta.ru. - You have already addressed Ivonne - almost twenty years ago, in the Krakow Old Theater.

Government experts did not support the abolition of the anonymity of messengers © Venturebeat The Legislative Initiative of the Media Communication Union (ISS) on the regulation of communication and audiovisual online services received a negative conclusion from the Svyaz and IT working group under the Government of Russia.

“They recorded the best album of 2016”, “One of the strongest modern Russian-speaking rock bands”, “The best post-punk in Russian” is the Minsk group “Loop of Brushes” by journalists compare with Editors and Interpol, and vocalist Ilya Skol-Samokhvalov -with Ien Curtis.

Dimitri Bruni, Manuel Crebs (Norm) / "Silver Set" © Norm Swiss graphic designers Dimitri Bruni and Manuel Krebs take part in the international font conference "Silver Set", which takes place from September 30 to October 7 in Moscow. “Silver of the set” is an annual international font conference, a platform for professional communication of font designers, graphic designers and calligrapists. The lecture program, creative meetings, discussions, exhibitions and workshops.

In Italy they found stolen paintings by Van Gogh © Wikimedia Commons Vincent Van Gogh. Sea view of Skveningen. 1882 The Italian police found in Naples two paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, which were stolen in 2002 from the Museum in Amsterdam. According to TASS with reference to the Netherlands television and radio broadcasting corporation, this is “a view of the sea by Skveningen” (1882) and “flocks leaves the reformist church in NewNen” (1884–1885).