"Galaxies are born and die out, but a literary text, like a work of art, is something immortal and unprecedented" (Kior Yanev - sketches for the film "Birdman." "The mother's womb of the night, Echo of the past, memory riot Under the through winds of centuries The soil crumbles with time.” (A. Briefly) The full version of the novel by Kior Yanev “Southern Mangazeya” impresses with the panoramic scale of its reproduction of the historical, philosophical and cultural mental landscape.

Our cultural context stands on the foundation of ancient Greek myths, and knowing this, it is not necessary to know the myths themselves. Otherwise, everyone would be very smart, but intelligence does not always lead to happiness, and vice versa.

Photo: Andrey Bezukladnikov This is not only a love story, it is a special kind of mystery of death. Boris Yukhananov Not everything is under their control, To the celestials. Mortals are closer To the abyss. And therefore they A turn is being made. Hölderlin. Mnemosyne Writing about the Orphic Games was not easy. The emergence of new forms in art not least implies the emergence of a new language and new artistic thinking.

With your callous sincerity - you choke out loud. In the window Invisible miles They break the spirit. Fog Unnoticed Through the sieve Chained Swordsmen in chains they will decide who you are. June 2018

The exhibition “In the Footsteps of Gumilev” brought together very different artists: book artist Mikhail Pogarsky and his colleagues and the author of spatial objects Vasily Vlasov. Pogarsky is interested in Gumilyov, Vlasov is interested in Africa. Therefore, the exhibition was divided into two parts, which were not distributed among the floors, but were placed interspersed.

The outgoing year 2018 is marked by the 100th anniversary of the birth of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918 - 2007). This was a director who posed the ultimate questions of human existence and therefore entered world culture as an honored master who spoke about man as if from within himself. Like any major figure, Bergman left behind many potential vantage points for his work.

Translation of a long interview with the German philosopher Neue Zürcher Zeitung: about the culture of hospitality, the political principles of MeToo and the agents of crypto-Stalinism in a society of increasing irritability. Illustration: Elizaveta Solovey Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Mr.