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Levan Lagidze: Interview with iconic and reclusive Georgian painter

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 13/11/2018 10:30 AM

Conversation on the occasion of the first solo-exhibition in London in 20 years Read More

The mystery of Faberge eggs and legacy of the Romanovs today

BY Emily Couch POSTED 07/11/2018 10:30 AM

Interview with art consultant and author Sophie Law Read More

Russian treasures in the Royal Collection

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 30/10/2018 9:00 AM

Interview with Caroline de Guitaut, curator of a new Queen’s Gallery exhibition Russia: Royalty & the Romanovs Read More

Exposed Arts Projects, or how an old garage became the centre of research-led art

BY Marina Maximova POSTED 28/10/2018 12:00 PM

Interview with Sasha Burkhanova-Khabadze Read More

Sofia Gubaidulina: a life dedicated to music composition

BY Matteo Morelli POSTED 24/10/2018 10:30 AM

Matteo Morelli interviews the renown composer on the occasion of her birthday Read More

The secrets of the Moscow Design Museum

BY Marina Maximova POSTED 09/09/2018 8:53 AM

How the museum without the space became one of the best Russian cultural organisations Read More

Pussy Riot and the descent into the Post-Modern: Does the Punk Protest Group still pack a punch?

BY Emily Couch POSTED 21/08/2018 10:00 AM

RA+C contributor Emily Couch debates if Pussy Riot have become a mere shadow of their former selves Read More

London-based curator Elena Zaytseva on her practice and art scene in Moscow and London

BY Marina Maximova POSTED 26/07/2018 10:00 AM

Elena Zaytseva tells us about her projects, challenges for representing Russian art in london, and prime destinations for Russian art lovers. Read More

Maria Tsantsanoglou tells RA+C about why and how the legendary Costakis Collection has been relaunched.

BY Katya Belyaeva POSTED 17/07/2018 12:00 PM

The Thessaloniki State Museum of Contemporary Art presents a new display of the legendary collection of Russian avant-garde Read More

LONGREAD. KATIE MITCHELL ON CHEKHOV, STANISLAVSKY AND CHARACTERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD.

BY Yulia Savikovskaya POSTED 04/07/2018 11:00 AM

Katie, or rather, Katrina Jane Mitchell, is a leading British theatre director whose creative drive seems to be truly inexhaustible. Early in her career, she worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1996 she won the Evening Standard Award for Best Director. The Department of Theatre and Performance at the Victoria and Albert Museum invited Mitchell and Leo Warner of 59 Productions to conceive […] Read More

HERMITAGE FINE ARTS: INTERVIEW WITH LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHERS LEO AND ALEXANDER BORODULIN

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 29/06/2018 12:58 PM

Hermitage Fine Art is pleased to present an exclusive interview with the legend of sports photography Leo Borodulin and the first Soviet fashion photographer Alexander Borodulin. In an interview with the auction house Hermitage Fine Art Leo Borodulin gives advice to young photographers, recalls his most interesting sport photo report, tells us about the Borodulin […] Read More

Interview with Gvido Trepsa, Director of the Nicholas Roerich Museum in NY

BY Jonah Locksley POSTED 07/06/2018 9:43 PM

Rounding up the Russian Art Week in London, follows the interview of our new US contributor Jonah Locksley with Gvido Trepsa, director of the Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York. Nicholas Roerich was born in Saint Petersburg in 1874, and is today a famous and honoured figure in Russia, Asia and in the West. He was […] Read More

Katerina Gregos: We Concentrate On the Baltic Region Because It Is a Terra Incognita

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 04/06/2018 9:33 PM

Quite recently, we have witnessed the debut of Tbilisi Art Fair, which is now followed by the inaugural edition of the Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) The organisers aim to launch RIBOCA as an international biennial with the European focus and a strong regional profile. The main theme is Everything Was Forever, Until It […] Read More

Sergey Kuryshev: This Means Figuring Out Our Life And Presenting it on the Basis of The Classic Text

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 15/05/2018 3:45 PM

Tonight is the opening night of Uncle Vanya at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, In anticipation of the Chekhov’s play being offered to the London audience, we approached the leading actor of the Maly Drama Theatre Sergey Kuryshev (in Life and Fate he played Viktor Shtrum). Sergey, you have been working in theatre for a long time, […] Read More

Elizaveta Boyarskaya: Acting and Directing is More Than a Job — It Is A Mission

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 11/05/2018 4:20 PM

Following the premiere of Vassily Grossman’s Life and Fate at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 8th May, we met with the young actress Elizaveta Boyarskaya, who plays Zhenya (I sometimes think of her as parallel to Pasternak’s Lara, even though it might be not exactly accurate) — one of the main protagonists in Grossman’s epic novel. […] Read More

Oscar Rabin: If I Had a Literary Talent, I Would Write

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 04/05/2018 4:59 PM

The patriarch of Russian non-conformism, the leading member of the Lianozovo group and organiser of the famous Bulldozer exhibition, Oscar Rabin celebrated his 90th birthday in January 2018. To mark this anniversary, collector Mark Ivasilevitch of Russian Day with the support of The State Russian Museum in St Petersburg, and founder of the AZ Museum in Moscow Natalya Opaleva, organised […] Read More

NATALIA OSIPOVA: WHILE I AM SO PASSIONATE ABOUT DANCING, I MUST GIVE MYSELF TO IT FULLY. PART II

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 28/04/2018 11:49 PM

Irene Kukota, Natasha Butterwick This is the sequel to the first part of our interview with Natalia Osipova, the Principal of the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden. Natalia, are you a person, who can easily be carried away? Oh, very much so! However, it is very hard for me to get carried away. Once it happens, […] Read More

Natalia Osipova: There Is a Great Deal of My Own Self In My Characters

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 28/04/2018 12:45 PM

By Irene Kukota and Natasha Butterwick. Natalia Osipova, Principal Dancer of the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, needs no special introduction. She joined the Company as a Principal in autumn 2013, after appearing as a Guest Artist the previous Season as Odette/Odile in the Swan Lake with Carlos Acosta. Her roles with the […] Read More

Post-Soviet Photography. Interview with Artist Photographer Turkina Faso

BY Gabriela Jankauskaite POSTED 13/04/2018 3:43 PM

Our new contributor Gabriela Jankauskaite met with a Russian artist photographer Turkina Faso and took a brief interview during the discussion on the Post-Soviet photography recently held at Calvert 22 Foundation. The Soviet Union invokes the feelings of nostalgia and sometimes repugnance. However, most young people do not know much about it anymore. Art and photography is […] Read More

Interview with Sofia Fomina. Part II. On Wagner, Pappano, Jurowski and Currentzis

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 23/03/2018 4:00 PM

We continue our conversation with lyric coloratura soprano Sofia Fomina, the soloist at the ROH. As we have mentioned, Sofia is a very engaging person who knows a lot. We just kept the conversation going… You seem to have been performing Wagner a lot recently. Wagner is very complicated and a great strain on the vocal […] Read More

Sofia Fomina on Life, Charity, Music and Taste for Adventure

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 17/03/2018 4:47 PM

On March 7th, a charity evening of opera and ballads “Spring Waters”(Veshnie Vody) performed by the Royal Opera House soloist Sofia Fomina and pianist Sergey Rybin raised £ 6,000 for the treatment of 10-year-old Nikita Orlov. The event was organised by the charitable foundation Gift of Life and took place in the hospitable home of […] Read More

Interview with Grigoriy Yaroshenko, Artist and Author of the Night in Norilsk

BY Borimir Totev POSTED 28/02/2018 9:57 AM

Borimir Totev: What is it about Norilsk in particular, out of all the so-called former mono-cities in Russia – that attracted you and your camera lens? Grigoriy Yaroshenko: In 2015 I was invited to take photographs in Norilsk by Olga Sviblova, head of the Multimedia Museum in Moscow. The subject was the 80th Anniversary of […] Read More

TURETSKY SOPRANO CELEBRATES LONDON MASLENITSA FESTIVAL ON ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY

BY Matteo Morelli POSTED 20/02/2018 8:49 PM

Founded in 2009, the London Maslenitsa Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Under the organisation of Ensemble Production and with the support of different entities, including Russkiy Mir Foundation and Russian Art and Culture, the Moscow City Goverment , Rossotrudnichestpvo ; the Festival presented various events ranging from film screenings and art exhibitions to fashion shows, culminating […] Read More

In Conversation With Andrey Zvyagintsev, Film Director And Screenwriter

BY Col Spector POSTED 05/02/2018 2:30 PM

To mark the release of his new Oscar-nominated film Loveless Col Spector talks to director Andrey Zvyagintsev about centrifugal storytelling and getting chilling performances from his child actor. Col Spector: Where did the initial idea for Loveless come from? Andrey Zvyagiuntsev: After making Elena I was trying to think about what I would do next […] Read More

PETER OSBORNE IN CONVERSATION WITH VADIM ZAKHAROV, TATE MODERN, 22 JANUARY

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 20/01/2018 9:24 PM

Learn more about Russian art, institutions and the Moscow Conceptualists from leading philosophers, artists and curators On the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Tate Modern presents the first major UK retrospective of the pioneering Russian-born artists, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and a host of rare propaganda posters, prints and photographs in Red Star Over Russia. In […] Read More

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