The Baroque performance, remotely staged by Kirill Serebrennikov in Gogol Center, was already discussed in the early January at Colta . Ru in the "Theater" section. The director is still under house arrest, rehearsals were recorded on the video and handed over to him through a lawyer. Continuing the section “Synthesis of the Arts” and the conversation about the mutual influence of stage and museum spaces , we decided to push theatrical criticism and art of history.

Under the curtain last year, Colta.ru held a discussion marathon “What hurts” . We continue to publish deciphering the conversations that took place there. This time - "The price of a compromise: cooperation with the authorities as a moral problem." Anton Dolin, film critic and editor -in -chief of the magazine “The Art of Cinema”, and Anna Narinskaya, publicist, literary critic and curator took part in the conversation.

“Opera-86” is a “polite refusal” debut album, which, for some mysterious reasons, was not in due time published on any media, but went on lists on magnetic tape.

"Indies" will pass through Russia from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok On February 1, the acceptance of applications for participation in the Musical Festival "Indsusat" begins. In 2019, the qualifying tours of the competition will be held not only in Moscow, as in previous years, but also in nine other cities - from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. Young musicians will appear in front of the jury led by the ideologist of the festival Alexander Kushnir.

The article of two researchers - Psychologist Gordon Pennikuk from the University of Rediana (Canada) and a social anthropologist and psychologist David Rand from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) - came out the other day at The New York Times . Colta.ru thanks Ilya Bera, publicist, historian and media pedagogue, for the translation of this text and publishes him with the kind permission of the authors.

Alexander Novozhenov died © RBOB On the night of January 31, art critic and artist Alexander Novozhenova died in Chicago at the age of 36. This was announced by her father, journalist Lev Novozhenov. Alexandra Lvovna Novozhenova was born in 1982 in Moscow, graduated from the Higher Academic School of Graphic Design of the Moscow State Art and Industry Academy named after S.G. Stroganova, in parallel studied art history at Moscow State University.