The educational program of the Moscow Biennale continues © State Russian Museum Andy Warhol. Portrait of Peter Ludwig. 1980 (fragment) Today, October 29, the second part of the educational program of the Moscow Biennale of Modern Art has opened on the VKontakte social network.

In former times, somewhere in the north of Iceland lived Ingvar and his wife Maria. They had a daughter named Hell - yes she died. Ingvar and Maria left alone, sunbathed. Years passed, and they lived together near the river in the house with a view of the wonderful fields and mountains and grazed their sheep. Once in Christmas Eve, when everyone slept peacefully, heavy sighs were heard through the roar of a hopeless blizzard. The door to the barn suddenly swung open; The sheep calmed down.

The Center for Voznesensky and the “Word Procedure” will celebrate Halloween with a poetic stream On October 31, from 23:00 to 01:00 on the online platforms of the Center for the Voznesensky and bookstore "The Order of the Words" will be held the stream "Tentacles of words longer than the night". On the night of Halloween, 13 poets will read modern and classical poems, in various ways revealing the theme of terrible and different. Registration is here .

© Big Cartoons Festival Frame from the BFM closing film “Nikuko from the Fish Gavan” (Japan, 2021), dir. Shinji Kimur ... The first thing to say about the XV BFM is that with the closure of cinemas, it was divided into two parts. Now, from October 28 to November 8, the festival will be held in the online format: buy a subscription (by the way, there are many opportunities for discounts: student, professional, large, etc.) and see everything you want.

Jean-Juber Marten is preparing an exhibition at the Pushkin Museum © A.S. Pushkin Paul Gauguin. Fruits. 1888 On November 9, in the main building of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Physician) will begin to work the exhibition project “There are strange rapprocheces ...” the famous French curator Jean-Juber Marten. According to the Press Service of the MLMI, the exhibition “There are strange rapprocheces ...” will become one of the main events of the museum in 2021.

Last Wednesday, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation made two loud purposes: actor Konstantin Khabensky was appointed new artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov, artist of the Mikhailovsky Theater Vladimir Kekhman, the new director of the Moscow Art Theater Gorky. About personnel permutations that caused a scandalous resonance in the theater community - Alena Karas.

We continue the publication of the best texts sent to the contest “September 27, 2050” , in the “Young Russia” section specially created for this section. Today is the story of Evgeny Bondt “One day from the life of a modern teenager”, which received the “Special Mention” prize at the competition. By the way, the author asked us to convey to the public that the young hero of this story is simultaneously the hero of Roman Bondt, for whom the publisher is still looking for.

The film "Frighten Fists" is released online © "Pioneer" At midnight on October 30, Kira Kira Kovalenko’s digital release of Drama Kira Kulaki, a digital release of drama, will take place on the video services “Kinopoisk”. The international premiere of the film “Frighteous Fists” was held this year at the Cannes Festival, where Kira Kovalenko became the first director from Russia to receive the Grand Prix of the “Special View” program.

The project "How to read media" is released by a video course on fake recognition On October 29, the premiere of Ilya Bera’s video course “How to recognize fakes”, created as part of the Goethe-Institute and Colta.ru project “The Earth is Flat-how to read media?”. In the course of “how to recognize fakes” five episodes of 15–20 minutes, he talks about false experts, pseudo-dwarves, hoaxes, false quotes, conspiracy theories, photo and video clips.

The “secret of the green backpack” was invented by Anton and Innocent Gonopol, father and son, director and musician. Both are participants in the psychedelic project Akyn Machine . Therefore, it is quite logical that in their fairy-tale world there are separated lovers-singer and a large artist, winged Kashchei, a three-headed dragon, gnomes-puppies and a representative of the European Commission on Human Rights.

The literary prize of the Pushkin House was awarded On October 28, a laureate of the ninth season of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize was announced in London. The prize was awarded to the British historian and political scientist, professor at the University of Archu Oxford for the book “Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, Thatcher and the End of the Cold War” (The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan and that End of the Cold War). This was reported by the site of the Pushkin house .

A set of an Inliberty online online school about the device of democracy is opened Until November 7, applications for training in the free online school "Good Board", which is organized by the educational project Inliberty Education, are accepted. Students and recent graduates of any university who write and read in Russian can apply .

The Bolshoi Theater will present the premiere of the opera of Prokofiev "Maddalena" Today, October 29, the first premiere of the 246th season of the Bolshoi Theater will be held. On the chamber scene named after B.A. Pokrovsky will be shown one -act operas of Maddalena Prokofiev and the Spanish hour Ravel.

Tomorrow, October 30, is the day of memory of victims of political repression. My son Nikita read or, working as a malarus at a construction site, listened to the Gulag Archipelago, and when summer came, he gathered for Solovki. And he asked if I want to make him a company. No, I didn’t want to at all, but the consciousness suddenly pulled out a Solovka bunch from the pit - a concentration camp - grandfather.