Andrey Sarabyanov will give a lecture in the garden "Hermitage" © Jewish Museum and Center for Tolerance On May 20, as part of the Moscow citywide campaign “Night in the Museum” in the Hermitage Garden, the educational festival “Open Lectures” will be held, in which the art historian, one of the authors of the “Encyclopedia of the Russian Avangard” Andrei Sarabianov will take part.

The Ministry of Culture is going to limit the return of theatrical tickets Among the measures to combat the “ticket mafia”, which will be included in the law developed by the Ministry of Culture, its head Vladimir Medinsky called the restriction of the possibility of passing the previously purchased ticket to the theater. The Minister of Culture stated this, speaking at the "parliamentary hour" in the State Duma on May 17.

A German journalist will present a book in Moscow about the post -Soviet soul On May 31, in the Goethe Institute in Moscow, German journalist Thomas Franca will present his new book “Russian Angst. Einblicke in die postsowjetische Seele ”(“ Russian fear. Look at the post -Soviet soul ”). After the presentation of the book (beginning at 19:00), a discussion will be held with its author and Mikhail Ratgauz , deputy chief editor of Colta.ru.

The "Arch of the State" will answer the question "How to live?" From July 21 to 23, the 12th International Festival of Landscaping Objects “Arch State” will be held in the village of Nikola-Lenice of the Dzerzhinsky district of the Kaluga region. The theme of the festival is “How to live?”. This year, the Arch of Archion offers artists and architects to think about how the minimum space for life might look like.

The Italian pranker deceived the world press Today, May 18, the Italian journalist Tommaso Debenedetti played the world media, publishing a message about the death of the Nobel Laureate on Literature Svetlana Aleksievich on a fake Twitter of the Minister of Culture of France.

Whether Skratch will perform in Moscow Perry © Red On June 9, a concert of the famous Jamaician musician Lee “Scratch” Perry will be held at the Red Club. Together with him, the British musician and producer Mad Professor (Neil Fraser) will perform at the Red club. Lee Perry’s musical career began in the 1950s, in the late 1960s he played reggae and even then he began to use samples in his compositions.

Chris Cornell died © Paul Lorkowski / Twitter On May 17, in Detroit, at the age of 52, the American rock musician Chris Cornell died, a participant in the Soundgarden and Audioslave groups. It is reported by The Guardian . The cause of death is not named. Chris Cornell was born in 1964 in Seattle, in 1984, together with Kim Tayil and Hiro Yamamoto, he created the Soundgarden group, pioneers of the Grange style.

Swans concerts in Russia were canceled © Swans :: Death of the Gods / May 30 St. Petersburg / June 01 MSC / "VKontakte" The performances of the American group Swans, which were supposed to take place in late May - early June in St. Petersburg and Moscow, were canceled in connection with the non -fulfillment of obligations by the organizers, the Arcto.Promo agency. “Since May 15, 2017, the third -party organizers of Peter and Moscow, measures were taken to save concerts in two cities.

Video showing is a collective form of watching foreign films, which in the late 1980s conquered the Soviet Union. A scarce video recorder, a color TV, a set of cassettes and a free hall - that's all that was needed for a video show; They instantly strewn the country and brought their owners a considerable income until they were replaced by video rental. You could see anything in the video show - their repertoire was unpredictable.

The program of the Moscow Jewish Film Festival was announced © mjff frame from the movie "Songs" More than 50 films will be shown from June 12 to 20 at the 3rd Moscow Jewish Film Festival. According to TASS , citing the organizers of the festival, the films are united by the theme of culture - the life of the people in the diaspora and Israel, identification issues, family values, the history of Jews of the 20th century, religion, art.