Awarded the "Golden Lions" of the Venetian Biennale © Nadine Fraczkowski / Frieze Performance Anna Imhof Faust in the German pavilion The German pavilion was awarded the “golden lion” of the 57th Venetian Biennale of Contemporary Art, the winner of the prize as the best artist of the main project of Biennale was Franz Erhard Walter (Germany).

The joint project of colta.ru and “Book projects of Dmitry Zimin” - “Big Science”. We meet with those who changed our ideas about the world. We talk, listen, try to figure out how everything works from the point of view of modern great science.

This year, Eurovision was not shown on Russian TV, but it has not become less in our life. Since the 2000s, Russia regularly took part in the interethnic television course of the song and in it, unlike football and the economy, showed stably good results.

An exhibition of Soviet surrealism will be held in Moscow © Collection of Galeev Gallery Boris Smirnov. Photo from the series "Doll". 1934-35 On May 26, an exhibition-research-study “Surrealism in the country of the Bolsheviks” will open in the Gallery “On Shabolovka” of the Moscow Association “Exhibition Halls”. The exhibition (curators-Alexander Selivanova and Nadezhda Plungyan) is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Oberiu (association of real art), which arose in Leningrad in 1927.

The discussion "What is enlightenment?" On May 16, in the main building of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, the Prize of Dmitry Zimin “Enlightener” as part of the project “more important than politics” conducts the discussion “What is education?”. Its participants - scientists and public figures - will discuss the role of educational activities in the modern sociocultural and scientific environment.

Documentary Film Festival "Docker" will be held in Moscow © Docker Festival From May 18 to 23, in the Moscow Cinema “Karo 11 October”, shows of the III International Documentary Film Festival “Docker” will be held, which included more than 50 films from 30 countries. All films of two main competitive programs - full -length and short films - and special sections of the Docker festival will be shown in Russia for the first time.

Alexander Timofeevsky will present in St. Petersburg the book "Spring of the Middle Ages" © Publishing house "Session" On May 16 at 19:00 at the Indigo Hotel in St. Petersburg, the critic and essayist Alexander Timofeevsky, consultant and columnist of the Kommersant newspaper in 1992-1997, will present his book “Spring of the Middle Ages”. The meeting will be the publisher of the book, the editor -in -chief of the magazine "Session" Lyubov Arcus.

Chosen curator of the Moscow Youth Biennale © Moscow Biennale of Young Art The curator of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, which will be held in the summer of 2018, will be 26-year-old Lucretia Calabro Visconti, an independent curator from Italy. According to TASS , on May 12 at the University of Ka'foscari in Venice it was introduced by the commissioner Biennale Ekaterina Kibovskaya.

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 9258 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.

For the first time in Russian, an autobiography of the legendary dancer and choreographer Marta Graham (1894-1991) is released. “Blood Memory” opens the new Garage Dance series Museum of Contemporary Art “Garage”, dedicated to the history and theory of modern dance (compiler of the series - Vita Khlopova). The presentation of the publication will be held on Saturday, May 20, as part of the Garage Art Book Fair art fair.

Colta.ru received the Award "Resonance" Today, May 15, at the Diaghilev festival at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater, a ceremony of presentation of the III All -Russian Resonance Prize was held. In the nomination "Best Media, writing about academic music and music theater" the award is awarded to the site COLTA.RU.

The publication of the complete collection of the diaries of Olga Bergholts began On May 18, the Gulag History Museum in Moscow will be a lecture “Olga Bergholz: early years and heritage”, dedicated to the release of the first volume of the full meeting of the poetess’s diaries, which she led from 1923 to 1971. The last few years in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI), work has been conducted to prepare for the publication of the full corps of diaries.

Let the idealist philosophers will put their hearts in the caches, let the legal philosophers check those principles for the protection of which they are upset, and let them go to the first ballet, which will be given on the stage. They will see, they will feel with the paint of shame on their faces that they have dedicated their whole lives to nothing else, namely, just composing ballets. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, "Modern Ghosts" Clio is malleable.

KS will decide whether the implementation of hundredths of political activities © Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation The Levada Center appealed in the Constitutional Court (CS) amendments to the law on foreign agents, equating sociological studies to political activity. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the director of the Levada Center Lev Gudkov. He clarified that we are talking about the amendments that were made to the law in June 2016.