Artists will go on Biennale in Antarctica © Antarctic Biennale In the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Pushrooms) hosted the presentation of the project of the first international Antarctic Biennale, which will be held in Antarctica in March 2017 with the participation of artists from around the world.

At what point did the focus of the interests of Dmitry Volkostroelov shift? At the time when he launched his first experiments with music as a matter of the performance, with silence, with nothing? It seems that there was still a template about literary centratism, when the director included in his field completely different categories associated with the study and objectification of time (through music, through nothing, through the silence ...).

Last week, the 418 intellectual club introduced the new album of the violinist of Roman Mints in Moscow, at which he plays the works of composer Leonid Testnikov “Sketches for Sunset” and “Russian Seasons”. On this occasion, in the October Hall of the House of Unions, Roman Mints, Yana Ivanilova and the QueSta Musica ensemble performed “Russian Seasons” , before which the composer was heard from the composer.

“I hope for a revolution in the Russian Orthodox Church” - an article with such a heading in the last three days has shaved (with skeptical or approval comments) hundreds of Orthodox users of social networks. The frank text turned out to be anonymous, but the resource where it was published was “Achille” - created Alexei Pluzhnikov, who does not hide that he had a priestly dignity until January 2015. COLTA .

The German musician Marcus Popp in the 1990s and 2000s rebelled against the sound recording industry and the DJ cult and personified hi-techisti, collected from sound defects-glitches and click-n-Kats. In the new century, he recorded two albums inspired by Latin American folk music, inviting vocalists from South America.

The Picasso exhibition will be held in the PIMI © Musée Picasso, Paris Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Olga in an armchair. 1917 In October 2018, at the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Physician) will open the exhibition “Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova”, dedicated to the Russian ballerina, the first wife of the artist.

Roskomnadzor blocked Artnet © Artnet On the territory of Russia, access to the Artnet portal, one of the main resources of the world art market, after Roskomnadzor blocked the Artnet page with the work of the American photographer Joka Rodges, has ceased. According to Roskomsvoboda , this page was included in the register of prohibited sites on February 15, pages with the works of famous photographers Sally Mann and Harry Gross were also blocked earlier.

The new novel of Vladimir Sorokin comes out In early March, Corpus will release the eleventh novel by Vladimir Sorokin - “Manaraga”. In his new book, Corpus reports, the writer finds out “how the relations of mankind and printed words will be arranged after the new Middle Ages and the second Muslim revolution.” The novel “You can read as an epitaph of paper literature - and as the anthem of its eternal life,” says the annotation on the publishing house.

The government supported the blocking of the "mirrors" of the sites Today, February 16, at a meeting of the Government of the Russian Federation, a bill is approved, which introduces the concept of a “derivative site on the Internet” (“mirror” site) and simplifies the procedure for blocking it. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of Nikolai Nikiforova.

Acceptance of applications for the Kandinsky Prize is opened © Kandinsky Prize Until April 15, applications for participation in the 11th season of the Kandinsky Prize in three nominations are accepted: “Project of the Year”, “Young artist. Project of the year ”and“ Scientific work. History and theory of contemporary art. " In the nominations “Project of the Year” and “Young artist.

The publishing house Corpus is published by the book of the American Slavist and publisher Karl Profer (1938-1984), the co-founder of the ARDIS publishing house, who published uncertain Russian literature in Russian and translated into English in the 1970-1980s. The book also includes the first published “notes to the memories of Joseph Brodsky” (whose permanent publisher in the West was Proffer).