Greg Lake died On December 7, at the age of 69, the British musician Greg Lake, a member of the King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer groups, died. According to the BBC with reference to the manager of Greg Lake, the cause of death was cancer. Greg Lake was born in 1947 in the pool (Dorset County), at the age of 12 he learned to play the guitar, in 1968, along with his school friend Robert Fripp, he founded a progressive rock group King Crimson , where he switched to bass guitar.

Historical memory in today's Russia is the space of conscious and unconscious deficits, rewritten narratives, the struggle of different forces for this past. Today on colta.ru - two texts that look at these processes from completely different positions, but make similar diagnoses. This is the column of Andrei Arkhangelsky and the text of the speech of Alexei Tsvetkov on October 7, 2016 at the Prague Conference “History inside us” in the library of Vaclav Gavel. 1.

"Garage" will show the program of American cinema © Museum of Modern Art "Garage" Frame from the film "Rhythm of the Great City" On December 17, in the lecture of the Museum of Contemporary Art “Garage” in Moscow, the film program “Dare Greatly” begins, dedicated to the most significant people, events and phenomena of American culture.

Filmed from the post of deputy minister of culture, passing in the "Restorer case" Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered to dismiss the state secretary-Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov, who is one of the defendants in the theft of state funds allocated for restoration work at cultural heritage sites. Selling of December 6, signed by Medvedev, is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

Russian students will be checked for extremism © Gennady Dubrov Pyatigorsk State University The Federal Agency for Nationalities (FADN), together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is developing a system of questioning for extremism of university students and secondary specialized educational institutions. According to Vedomosti , the forum “Russian Caucasus: Territory of Unity”, this was announced the other day in Pyatigorsk at the forum “Russian Caucasus: Unity territory”.

The monument to Bulgakov was agreed on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya © Russian School / The Bridgeman Art Library Today, December 8, at a meeting of the commission on monumental art under the Moscow City Duma, a proposal is approved to establish a monument to Mikhail Bulgakov on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street. According to the Moscow Agency, a square was selected between the houses 35 and 37 , located next to the writer’s museum. The application for the installation received from the P.I.

As part of the OFF program of the NET festival on December 9 and 10, “ Medeya will show in Tsim. Material ” from Kazakhstan-“ Pop-mechanical performance for 16 models, 6 musicians, 4 screens, 3 cameras and 2 votes ”. Elena Kovalskaya saw the production of Rustem Beenov in Almaty, talked with the director and was convinced that the current theater of Central Asia would look extremely organic in the poster of the “New European Theater”.

Mamm will continue a series of concerts of modern academic music Multimedia Art Museum Moscow (MAMM) resumes a series of concerts of modern academic music “Mammusic Contemporary”. On December 21, the first Russian concert of the Dutch Minimalist Daove Eissengi will be held at the museum.

The Architecture Museum will present an exhibition about modern Japanese architecture © “Parallel Japan: Modern Japanese Architecture” / Facebook Toyo. Sandai media. 2001 December 16 at the State Museum of Architecture named after A.V.

It is difficult to write about Gerhard Richter: then his figure seems too invulnerable , then, on the contrary, he becomes too light target . Nature, according to him, is a stupid and bad thing [I] , and, for example, the church is good, because it helped to separate good from evil [II] . Above all, Richter seems to appreciate the order, and with him Bach, Palladio and Cage. His name, on the other hand, firmly entered the mass culture.

The theme of Istanbul Biennale was announced © Ilgin Erarslan Yanmaz / Artforum The theme of the 15th Istanbul Biennale of Contemporary Art, which will be held from September 16 to November 12, 2017, will be a “good neighbor” (a good neight / İyi bir komşu). According to ArtForum , Biennale participants will explore the concepts of home, neighborhood, and lifestyle - private and public, as well as the changes that our lifestyle has undergone over the past decades.

“Perfection in details. The art of Japan of the Meiji era ” is the name of the exhibition in the Manble of the Small Hermitage. Ceramics, enamel, varnishes, metal - expensive exotic, a century and a half ago conquering two fracture generations of artists, impressionists and post -impressionists, and allowed thousands of Chinese craftsmen who stamped fakes. The world was fascinated by Japanese aesthetics, but the Japanese could not fully take advantage of their victory.

“Waiting for rock and roll heroes. The awards in the cabinets are dusting. But somehow everything is homogeneous-the heroes do not appear. Well, they succeeded? Maybe everyone was rushing? Maybe they hid and drink in quiet sadness? " Vladimir Burdin.