Graphic artist from the Netherlands, author of famous works with optical illusions In the icon of the era, we talk about artists, designers, directors, musicians and other creative professionals who managed to create a recognizable style and affect modern culture. Our hero this week is the graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Esher, the author of the famous “relativity” and other works with optical illusions. The exhibition of Escher is open at the Moscow MMOM until February 9, 2014.

We summarize the results of the year In 2013, Yandex got into news feeds almost every week: the Russian technological giant launched the “islands” and dozens of services, opened the Kampus design school, and at the end of the year he also became the main character of the Russian comedy “Startup” (which, perhaps, should not be ranked for the merits of the company). We figured out what happened in Yandex in 2013 and how the company follows the path of Google.

LOOK at Me, together with the 24 DOC television channel, launches the Saturday show project. Every Saturday at 13:00 on the site-an online prime minister of one documentary about creative industries: design, architecture, cinema, video games, modern art. How much your weighs yours Mr. Foster building? How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?

The Comic-Con exhibition can be held in Russia already in 2014, this is reported by the Kanobu website, citing Maxim Maslov, General Director of Cree and Igromir. According to him, the Russian Comic-Con will be the event “With the original Russian-speaking name” based on the “Concept of a series of events of Comic-Con”.

Alexander Burenkov about how the Internet changes the worldview of young artists Alexander Burenkov Artist and curator We have already figured out what changed in 2013 in contemporary art in Russia. In the new material about the results of the year - the reasoning of the curator and artist Alexander Burenkov on how in 2013 the Internet and the economy of attention are changing the artistic process all over the world.

We summarize the results of the year The video has long become part of the Internet. Large services, such as YouTube (founded in 2005), Dailymotion (2005) and Vimeo (2004) have already existed and successfully develop almost a whole decade. With the development of broadband networks and mobile Internet, these resources violated the position of things that had prevailed in the media industry, confusing the cards to film distributors, television holdings, and even influencing the musical industry.