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Piano Recital with Yulia Chaplina

BY Yulia Chaplina POSTED 02/10/2023 10:32 AM

Dartmouth House will be hosting a lunchtime concert by pianist, Yulia Chaplina, on Friday, 10 November the programme will include works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Kchachaturian. Debuting aged seven with a performance of Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor with the Rostov State Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Chaplina trained in Rostov and Moscow with Naum […] Read More

Art, Art Market, Exhibition, News

British Art Fair 2023: Crossing Borders Sep 28 – Oct 1

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 29/09/2023 5:14 PM

The 32nd edition of British Art Fair opens this week presenting its annual showcase of the very best Modern British and Contemporary British Art, elegantly installed throughout the museum-style interiors of Saatchi Gallery, London. Since 1988 British Art Fair has been the flagship fair for Modern British Art, representing celebrated artists including Bridget Riley, Francis […] Read More

Performance, Theatre

Performance of ‘The White Factory’ at Marylebone Theatre

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 31/08/2023 3:44 PM

Spanning several decades, The White Factory explores the life of Yosef Kaufman, a Holocaust survivor from Łódź, haunted by his wartime experiences as he tries to build a new future in 1960s Brooklyn. This is the world premiere of a daring collaboration between Ukrainian, Russian and British creatives, led by writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the bestselling Metro 2033 franchise, […] Read More

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Exhibition: Wandering in Other Worlds – Evenki Cosmology and Shamanic Traditions

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 17/08/2023 10:14 AM

Until 3 September 2023, Pitt Rivers Museum invites you, through this display and the virtual reality (VR) headset, to wander in another world, an Evenki world. Listen to stories shaped by Evenki cosmology and shamanic tradition and find out how these relate to objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum. The Evenki are a diverse cultural […] Read More

Art, Exhibition, Photography

Georgy Keymakh: Identifying the object

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 13/08/2023 10:25 AM

Georgy Keymakh: identifying the object First of all, choose your object It’s banal to say that the choice of the photographed object is crucial. However, the process itself tells us a lot about the photographer. While some will focus on capturing nature in micro-perspective, the eyes of others will be drawn to the repetitiveness […] Read More

Art, Education, Exhibition, Interview, Research

A MARATHON OF MUSIC-MAKING: THE SHOWCASE OF NEW TALENTS AT THE XVII TCHAIKOVSKY COMPETITION IN MOSCOW AND ST PETERSBURG

BY Yulia Savikovskaya POSTED 10/08/2023 4:56 PM

A marathon of music-making: The showcase of new talents at the XVII Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow and St Petersburg) The second half of June 2023 was marked by one of the biggest musical events in Russian cultural landscape – the Tchaikovsky competition for young musicians (you have to be under 32) in 6 different categories: piano, […] Read More

Art, Exhibition

Hunted past: London based artist Katya Granova reimagines old photographs

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 15/06/2023 12:42 PM

Hunted past: Katya Granova reimagines old photographs. Over a year has passed since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the situation has become increasingly unsafe for Russian artists. Many of them have fled their home country, seeking refuge around the world, due to the oppressive regime under Putin. Expressing anti-war sentiments has become a […] Read More

Interview, Performance, Theatre

Russian premiere of tom Stoppard’s play Leopoldstadt

BY Yulia Savikovskaya POSTED 14/06/2023 6:17 AM

Tom Stoppard’s play Leopoldstadt gets a Russian premiere Yulia Savikovskaya meets Alexey Borodin, the director of the production and the Art Director of Russian Academic Youth Theatre, Moscow. On June 16, 2023 Russian Academic Youth Theatre (RAMT), Moscow will have a unique premiere that will open a new page in its history. The audiences will […] Read More

Books, Literature, Reviews

Finding the Words: New Writing from Maxim Osipov and Mikhail Shishkin

BY Peter Lowe POSTED 07/05/2023 12:00 PM

Finding the Words: New Writing from Maxim Osipov and Mikhail Shishkin. In conversation at London’s Pushkin House recently Maxim Osipov spoke of the urgent need for writers and other émigrés to respond in print to actions perpetrated by the Russian state that are utterly against their own beliefs and values. As dissent within the […] Read More

Music, Performance