Nick Cave will come on tour to Russia © The TLS In the summer of 2018, the Australian rock band Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds as part of its European tour will make concerts in St. Petersburg and Moscow. According to the press service of the organizers of the tour, the PMI corporation, the St. Petersburg concert will be held on July 25 at the A2 Green Concert club, Moscow- July 27 at the Stadium Live club.

The interview with Danila Tkachenko, published on November 23, caused an unprecedented hype. The photographer was accused of vandalism, the destruction of a private, and possibly state property, that he could provoke forest fires, etc. Tkachenko himself left the answer, and if so - we give the word to our experts.

The “Vinzavod” will discuss the psychoanalytic revolution © TsSI "Vinzavod" On December 11, in the New Cosmology cycle, the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art of Modern Art, the discussion of the French and Russian psychoanalysts, Elizabeth Rudesinko and Viktor Mazin, “Two Freud, or there is no space, will take place. Why does the teachings of Sigmund Freud cause fierce resistance? Did he manage to find the way to the unconscious? What place does psychoanalysis occupy in today's world?

Turner's Prize received Lyubain Chemist © 2017, Edmund Blok for Modern Art Oxford / Tate On December 5, in Gulle, the Turner Prize of 2017 was awarded to the artist Lyubaina Chemist for work dedicated to racial policy and heritage of slavery. According to BBC , the 62-year-old native of Zanzibar became the oldest laureate of the award and the first black artist to receive the most prestigious award of the UK in the field of modern art.

Artificial intelligence is going to run for the presidency of the Russian Federation The virtual voice assistant to Alice, developed by Yandex, was nominated for candidates for the president of Russia.

. . . Today, December 6, in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, the next “Artdokfest” begins -a documentary cinema festival in Russian. In the program, generally dedicated to the phenomenon of the post -Soviet (that is, actually the elements of the Soviet, continuing its existence after the collapse of the USSR), there are many imaginary hits.

The festival of modern music in Haddersfield, the most influential rally of experimental and avant -garde music in Britain, ended. This year he celebrated the 40th anniversary, in the program-more than 50 concerts, performances by London Sinfonietta, Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Modern, a special-chicken-shaker dedicated to the music of Polina Oliveros, Kraftwerk, Lou Read and Robert Frippa.

“Voice of America” and “Radio Liberty” will cease to be allowed into the State Duma © State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Today, December 6, State Duma deputies voted for the decision to prohibit the State Duma to representatives of the media-foreign agents-Voice of America and Radio Liberty.

A platform began to work in Runet to communicate with psychotherapists The DJ-director of the site “Theory and Practice” Inna German, the editor-in-chief of the INRUSSIA and SYG.MA project Furkat Palvanzade and the author of the book “Catching out! The guide for mental disorders in the big city ”(Enlightener-2017 Award) Daria Varlamova launched a platform for communicating with psychotherapists Sreda.io.

Tretyakov Gallery will present a retrospective of the Sweden movie © Ab Sandrew-Produktion Frame from the movie "Freecan Julia" From December 7 to 28, the engineering building of the State Tretyakov Gallery (GTG) will be shows the festival “Brief History of Swedish Cinema without Bergman”.

Open "Artdokfest" © "Artdokfest" Frame from the movie "Process" Today, December 6, in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Yekaterinburg, the XI International Documentary Film Festival "Artdokfest" begins work. At the opening of the festival, the film by Askold Kurov “The Process” (Estonia-Chekhiy-Polsha, 2017) about the case of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Russia for terrorism, will be shown.

Hudor Tsima Viktor Ryzhakov again puts his beloved playwright: from the romantic “oxygen” in “Theater. DOC ”began the Moscow part of their biography, which lasts a“ solar line ”after fifteen years. There are also two protagonists, but these are no longer rushing to each other at space speed Sasha and Sasha, and the respectable bourgeois Barbara and Werner, trying to at least not divorce - let everything go to this at five in the morning in the kitchen of their prosperous house.

Rosobrnadzor refused to issue an EUSPB license The Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor) refused the European University in St. Petersburg (EUSPB) to issue a license to carry out educational activities. The corresponding order signed by the head of Rosobrnadzor, Deputy Minister of Science and Education Sergey Kravtsov today, December 6, is posted on the service website .

Died Johnny Holliday © Chérie Fm Belgique Today, December 6, in his house in Marne-la-Kotet near Paris at the age of 74, the French singer and composer Johnny Holliday died. According to Le Figaro , lung cancer became the cause of death. Johnny Hollidei (real name Jean-Philipp Sumes) was born in 1943 in Paris, in the late 1950s he began to perform in a cabar, performing rock and roll in French.