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Kristina Krasnyanskaya and her passion for Soviet Design

BY Marina Maximova POSTED 15/01/2019 10:30 AM

RA+C conversation with the founder of Heritage Gallery, Moscow, Read More

Pavel Kolesnikov: Rising Russian Star of Classical Music

BY Yulia Savikovskaya POSTED 14/01/2019 10:49 AM

Interview with Yulia Savikovskaya Read More

Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu on his work, Russian musicians and performing in Russia

BY Yulia Savikovskaya POSTED 15/12/2018 10:30 AM

We met with Hannu Lintu at the Helsinki Music Centre before his first rehearsal of Mahler’s Symphony No.8in August 2018 (it was broadcast by Finnish television around the world and was part of Helsinki Festival 2018), over coffee and tasty Karelian pies. Hannu projected an atmosphere of intellectualism, openness and kindness, and it was revealing […] Read More

Ivan Vyrypaev on cinema, theatre and his dreams.

BY Arthur Rakovskis POSTED 11/12/2018 11:16 AM

Artur Rakovskis talks to the famous writer and playwright. Read More

Vladimir Jurowski: on challenges and pleasures of performing with London Philharmonic Orchestra

BY Yulia Savikovskaya POSTED 24/11/2018 2:00 PM

Yulia Savikovskaya interviews Vladimir Yurowski, Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of London Philharmonic Orchestra Read More

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

Curators of Zimmerli Art Museum in Conversation

BY Marina Maximova POSTED 29/09/2018 10:30 AM

On the museum, its collection and the upcoming exhibition 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 VICTORIA LOMASKO

BY Emily Couch POSTED 10/06/2018 11:36 AM

The following interview was conducted via email by Emily Couch. The answers were translated from Russian into English by Emily Couch and Irina Kukota. You recently collaborated with Pushkin House in London to create the exhibition ‘On the Eve’ which featured your drawings of Russian grassroots movements from LGBTQ activists to Russian truck drivers protesting the […] 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

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