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
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
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
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
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
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
