“Russian Seasons” of Netatnikov performed in Moscow © Intellectual Club "418" On February 8, in the October Hall of the House of Unions at an evening dedicated to the fourth anniversary of the 418 intellectual club, performed by the soloists and the QueSta Musica ensemble, Leonid Tapetnikov’s work “Russian Seasons” sounded. Together with the “sketches for sunset”, “Russian Seasons” entered the new album of the composer, who had just released on the British Label Quartz Music .

Closed "Kommersant-Lifestyle" Today, February 9, the leadership of the Kommersant Publishing House announced the closure of the Kommersant-Lifestyle online project. “The entire editors were dismissed by practical one day (formally February 14), access to the systems are disabled without warning, admin and mail does not work,” said the chief editor of Kommersant-Lifestyle Evgeny Tikhonovich on Facebook. “The decision to close is a complete surprise for us. He writes.

Metronomy will perform in St. Petersburg and Moscow © Pop Farm In the summer of 2017, concerts of the British electronic group Metronomy will be held in St. Petersburg and Moscow. On June 30, a performance was scheduled at the A2 Green Concert club (Petersburg), on July 1 - at the Yotaspace club (Moscow). The Metronomy group was created in 1999 by a multi -instrumentalist and composer Joseph Mount.

Following the book about John Cage, the AD Marginem Publishing House and the Garage Museum of Modern Art in the Critical Biography series are released by Eric Sati, compiled by Mary E. Davis. In it, the eccentric French composer, whom contemporaries called the “greatest genius” and “unteded by the provocateur”, is represented by a person who was ahead of time and anticipated the modern culture of stars. Colta.ru publishes a preface to this biography translated by Elizabeth Miroshnikova.

American documentaries will come to the festival in Moscow © Ketafilms Erin Kalmz American directors Daniel Miller and Erin Kalmz will take part in the work of the VIII International Festival of Green Documentary Cinema EcoCup (Eco -Cherry), which will be held in Moscow from February 24 to March 2. Daniel Miller will present in Moscow his film "Anthropologist ) .

Berlinale begins © G1b8 / Flickr Today, February 9, in the Potsdamsky Square Palace in Berlin, the opening ceremony of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival will be held in Berlin. The festival will open the film "Django" ( Django ) about the jazz guitarist Dzhango Reinhardte - directorial debut of the French screenwriter and producer Etienne Komar, TASS reports.

Vinzavod announced the anniversary year program © TsSI "Vinzavod" On February 8, the anniversary year of the Center for Contemporary Art “Vincuvod” was announced, the central projects of which are exploring the cultural context of the past decade.

From February 10 to 12, the Moscow Cinema Pioneer will host a retrospective Maren Ada , a German director, close to the so -called Berlin school. The program contains all three full -length films of Ada, including Tony Erdman, a great drama that received the Fipresci prize in Cannes. Maria Bikbulatova - about how to watch Ada's early works in order to better understand the phenomenal success of her last picture.

A round table will be held at the exhibition "Border" © Goethe Institute in Moscow On February 15, a round table will take place in the Gallery of Zurab Tsereteli as part of the exhibition “Border”, organized by a goet's engine in Moscow. The exhibition “Border” (January 31 - February 26) explores and analyzes the boundaries and their occurrence in various forms: as territorial isolations or, conversely, joining, as cultural or social barriers, as a tool separating “us” from “others”.

The Israeli playwright, the writer and translator of Roy Hyun transferred Pushkin’s “little tragedies” to Hebrew - and talked about what it means to devote ten years to work that “will definitely not change the world”, about why the translator is the author and the owner of the author, and how to properly translate the word “Jew”.

A monument to Marshak will appear in Moscow © Wikimedia Commons A monument to the writer, poet and translator Samuil Marshak will be erected in the center of Moscow. The decision on this was made today, February 9, at a meeting of the commission on monumental art under the Moscow City Duma, RIA Novosti reports. According to the chairman of the commission Igor Voznesensky, the decision was unanimous. The monument will be erected on Lyalina Square in the area of ​​pure ponds.

Two Russian symphonic premieres will take place in Perm © Edward Tikhonov / Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after P.I. Tchaikovsky On February 18, at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater, the orchestra and the Musicaeterna choir will first perform the works of modern composers Sergei Nevsky and Luchano Berio in Russia. In the concert program: Sergey Nevsky. A concert for a violin with an orchestra "Cloud Ground", soloist - Elena Revich (violin); Luciano Berio.

Alexander Selivanova Alexander Selivanova - candidate of architecture, head of the Center for Vanguard, was appointed curator of the Gallery "On Shabolovka" at the beginning of the year. Maria Nesterenko talked with her about the further plans of the center. - Recently, the center of avant -garde moved from the library “Enlightenment of Workers” to the Gallery “On Shabolovka” - next door. Are any changes coming in the work of the Center?

LGBT Festival "BOC ON BOK" will hold retrospective shows in Moscow and St. Petersburg © Ring Film Frame from the film "Arianna" In February and March in Moscow and St. Petersburg, a series of retrospective impressions of the activist LGBT festival “BOC ON BOK”, which is 10 years old this year, will be held. In total, four films will be shown - two in Moscow and two in St.

- In principle, all your films react quite timely and subtly to the spirit of the time. What made you turn to the topic of Nicholas II right now? - No, starting work on the film, I never think how to associate it with events in society. I do what is interesting to me: human, emotional stories, regardless of the political situation in the country. Yes, this year the 100th anniversary of the revolution, but everything ends with us 1896, coronation.