The dears are going to Moscow © The Dears / Facebook On February 13, 2017, the Canadian Indie-Rock group The Dears will perform in the Moscow club “16 tons”. “After the performance as a special guest at Zemfira’s concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow, one of the best Canadian groups of the 21st century is returning to Russia,” the concert organizers say. The Dears was formed in 1995 in Montreal, in 2000 released the debut album "End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story" .

House of impressions. Walk with the trumpeter Exhibition "House of impressions. Walks with a troubadour. Improvisation. Sound "will open on October 28 in the estate of the Golitsyn princes. In this project of theowers to them. Pushkin is participated in 12 Russian and foreign artists, among the authors of the project-Swiss media artists Andre and Michelle decorates and art group! Mediengruppe Bitnik. Exhibition "House of impressions. Walk with the trumpeter. Improvisation.

Russian academicians have advocated the deprivation of a median degree © Education and Orthodoxy Vladimir Medinsky A group of academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) disseminated an appeal in which it supported the demand to deprive the Minister of Culture of Vladimir of the Medinsky degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences.

The negotiations on the production of the Almeid Theater began just at the moment when the most important event occurred in the posthumous history of Richard III: on the parking lot in Leicester during archaeological excavations, the skeleton of the latter of the plantagenets was discovered. And - grief of the Ricardians! -“Everything was confirmed”: the curved cinqueforated spine of the King-Humpbone with his shameless final clarity seemed to gain the weight of the Shakespearean play.

Anna Nistratova will give a lecture on street art in Moscow © Denis o'donovan / Flickr On Saturday, October 29, at the exhibition “#Project64 Non/Dependence” in the Optics pavilion at VDNH will the Lecture “Street art died?” Independent curator in the field of street art Anna Nistratova. According to the organizers, she will talk about what is happening in street art today, 8 years after a large wave. What is called street art today?

Elena Smorodinova visited the rehearsals of Roman Polanski at the Madagor Paris Theater, where the director instructed Russian actors playing in the Moscow production version of his vampire Ball (the Russian franchise of the musical is launched tomorrow, October 29, in MDM), and after asking him several difficult questions about socialist realism, fatum and love bites.

This fall, Russian citizens began to receive the first notifications with the calculation of tax amounts on property for 2015. The tax is considered according to the new scheme - according to the cadastral value, and not the inventory, as before, that is, based on the almost market price of housing. As a result, by 2020, when the tax enters into force, the owners will pay many times more than now.

Rebecca Zorak is a professor at the Northwestern University, Renaissance Specialist and African American artistic movements of Chicago of the 1960s-1970s. Alexandra Novozhenova talked with Zorak about the city reality of Chicago. For the Russian reader in this urban situation, there is a lot of unusual-but something, on the contrary, resonates with our experience.

An exhibition of Catalan surrealists opens in the Hermitage © Salvador Dalí, Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí / Vegap, Madrid Salvador Dali. A dream caused by a bee flight near the grenade fruit, a second before waking up. 1944 (fragment) From October 29, 2016 to February 5, 2017, the State Hermitage will host an exhibition “Surrealism in Catalonia. Artists of Ampourdan and Salvador Dali ”, on which 70 works of 29 Catalan artists will be presented.

The FSB did not let go of the "theater.doc" artistic director abroad © Mikhail Ugarov / Facebook Today, October 28, the artistic director of the Moscow Theater Theater “Theater.doc” Mikhail Ugarov, because of the ban on the FSB, could not fly out of Sheremetyevo to Germany. “I did not fly to Berlin. Not released at the border. No explanation of the reasons. Order of the FSB / Border Service. I hope this is some small fine. Otherwise - what? ” Wrote the Ugarov on Facebook.

Tabakov responded to Raikin's speech Today, October 28, the performance of the artistic director of the Satyrikon Theater Konstantin Raikin on censorship was commented by Oleg Tabakov’s artistic director named after Chekhov. On October 24, at the congress of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia in Moscow, Raikin criticized censorship and other forms of restriction of freedom of creativity in Russia and called on cultural figures for solidarity.

The Russiangate website appeared on the network this fall - without noise, not introducing himself. Catchy pictures and discreet texts about bribe takers, corruption, raiding, abuse of officials. Everything is neatly translated into English. In the section "On the Project"-a quote from Saltykov-Shchedrin and a link to Watergate. And not a word about the editorial office and publishers. Colta.ru decided to ask what all this means. - You agreed to an interview only on anonymity. Why?