Natalia Basovskaya died © Vadim Schulz / TV channel "Russia-Culture" Today, May 24, in Moscow, at the age of 78, the medical historian and a popularizer of science Natalia Basovskaya died. This was reported by Echo of Moscow with reference to the dean of the Faculty of Journalism of the RSUSU Natalia Makarov.

The international festival "Green" documentary cinema EcoCup appeared in 2010. Every year at the festival, films are shown that tell how the environmental situation in the world is developing. After the shows, discussions with eco -activists, the founders of NPOs, scientists, directors and heroes of paintings are held.

Museum of Vadim Sidur and Momom will present an exhibition of Sarah Kulmann "Mash of pleasure" © MMOMA From May 31 to June 30, the Museum of Vadim Sidur in Moscow will host a personal exhibition of the artist Sarah Kulmann “The Machine Machine”. The exhibition was organized by the Vadim Sidur Museum together with the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA).

Evgeny Anisimov will discuss the book "Power and the ax" at Inliberty On May 31, in the space of “Inliberty Dawn” in Moscow, historian Evgeny Anisimov will present his new book “Power and ax: tsarist power, political investigation and Russian society in the 18th century” and discuss it with journalist Sergei Smirnov. Start at 19:30, the entrance is free according to preliminary online registration , the address " Inliberty Dawn" : Starlar per., 3, p. 1.

We met Alyosha Parkhchikov in 1977 and immediately made friends. Together they were instigators and participants in the first evenings of new poetry: in 1980, when the metarealists and poets of the Moscow Time group alternately read poets in the crowded hall; In 1983 (June 8), when the first open dispute of two aesthetic platforms - metarealists and conceptualists in the USSR took place in the same TsDRI over many decades.

Balts to the music of Oleg Karavaichuk will be shown in St. Petersburg © Karavichuk Foundation On May 27, the atrium of the General Staff of the State Hermitage presented the program of one -act ballets “Karavaychuk as an occasion ...” the choreographer Roy Assaf (Israel), two of them were set to the music of Oleg Karavaychuk and are dedicated to the composer’s memory.

Poster Garage Art Book Fair and Print Market "Taste of Paper" . . . The book has always been a place of intersection of two language systems - text and image. Lettering, ornaments, vignettes, illustrations are elements, without which it is difficult to imagine both manuscript books and the first printed specimens.

Kantemir Balagov is named the best director of the Cannes section "Special View" © Cinema TV / YouTube Today, May 24, at the 72nd International Cannes Film Festival, the awarding ceremony of the winners of the competition program “Special View” was held. In the nomination “The Best Director” the prize was received by Kantemir Balagov for the film “Dylda”. It is reported by The Hollywood Reporter .

There were only one and a half days and two films left until the end of the festival, but many are already sure that the “Golden Palm Branch” (well, or at least the Grand Prix of the jury) will take “Portrait of a Girl in Fire” Selin Schyamma-a lesbian drama unfolding in the scenery of Brittany of the 18th century. Adele Anel here plays Eloise, a girl of noble blood, whom the mother hires in the companions of Marianne, an artist of free glances.

The St. Petersburg Museum of Joseph Brodsky will be opened in 2020 © St. Petersburg Live / Facebook Today, May 24, the chairman of the Council of the Museum of the Museum of Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Milchik, announced that the museum in the house of Muruzi at Litein Prospekt in the center of St. Petersburg will be opened on May 24, 2020, when the poet’s 80th anniversary will be celebrated. Mikhail Milchik reported this, speaking at the XIV International Book Salon, TASS reports.

Anastasia Shevchenko became the laureate of the Boris Nemtsova Prize © vladimir kara-murza / facebook On May 23, the Boris Nemtsov Council awarded the annual Boris Nemtsov Prize for the courage to defend democratic values ​​in Russia for 2019 to a civil activist, a member of the Open Russia Council Anastasia Shevchenko. This was announced by the chairman of the Council of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr..

The Memorial will talk about censorship in Soviet cartoons © "Soyuzmultfilm" Frame from the cartoon "Sunny Solnyshkina" (1980) On May 28, at the International Memorial in Moscow, a scientific consultant of the Soyuzmultfilm film studio George Borodin will give a lecture “Culti -Cliff and Censorship: before and after”. Start at 19:00, the entrance is free according to preliminary online registration . Recently, two sustainable opinions are fighting each other in public consciousness.