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1968.DIGITAL. The year when it all started

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 19/11/2018 10:30 AM

New project by Mikhail Zygar and Karen Shainyan Read More

Science Museum to Investigate Into The Murder of Russia’s Last Tsar

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 17/07/2018 11:21 AM

The Science Museum investigates the biggest mystery of the XX century Read More

Open Call: CONTACT ZONES, FAR EAST. Research exchange programme

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 06/07/2018 1:11 PM

ZARYA CCA announces an open call for proposals for Russian interdisciplinary researchers interested in working in Asia, as part of the research exchange program, CONTACT ZONES: FAR EAST. Read More

Intimate, Candid and Completely Fascinating: The Tchaikovsky Papers – Unlocking the Family Archive

BY Robert Hugill POSTED 26/06/2018 7:13 PM

The Tchaikovsky Papers; edited by Marina Kostalevsky; Yale University Press Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Family letters from the Tchaikovsky archive, never published in English before and revealing illuminating intimate details about the composer’s life This volume, The Tchaikovsky Papers – unlocking the family archive from Yale University Press (edited by Marina Kostalevsky and translated by […] Read More

LOW-KEY, LOW TURN-OUT. LONDON RUSSIAN AUCTIONS 4-6 JUNE 2018

BY Simon Hewitt POSTED 15/06/2018 9:30 AM

THIS WAS THE DULLEST Russian Auction Week anyone can remember…. Our International Editor Simon Hewitt presents a comprehensive overview of Russian art sales that have taken place in London earlier this June. With Anglo-Russian relations at an all-time low, there had never been a less encouraging time to consign. A number of Moscow collectors stayed […] Read More

IF IT WERE NOT FOR RAILWAYS, VITEBSK WOULD NOT HAVE BECOME THE PARIS OF THE EAST.

BY Regina Khidekel POSTED 14/06/2018 1:59 PM

From the Archive of Lazar Khidekel. An artist’s archive is a peculiar storage chamber not only of historical documents, but also of ideas. And if it is the archive of a Suprematist artist and architect, the relevance of these ideas continues to grow, as is the case with Lazar Khidekel – the ‘revolutionary Suprematist’ in […] Read More

International Conference ‘St Nicolas, Bari and Russian Icons’ to Take Place in Bari

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 08/06/2018 9:50 PM

On June, 28-29, the Italian city of Bari will play host to the international academic conference St Nicolas, Bari and Russian Icons’ . The conference will coincide with the final days of the exhibition Russian Icon. Prayer and Mercy, and will be attended by the leading historians, philologists and art historians from Russia, Italy and USA. […] Read More

Analysis of Goncharova and Larionov Works in the Museum Ludwig Collection: Findings

BY Jilleen Nadolny POSTED 03/06/2018 2:48 PM

The Russian Avant-Garde Research Project announced the outcomes of their grant-funded project and present you the summary of the findings. Over the last year, Art Analysis & Research (AA&R) worked closely with the Museum Ludwig to examine the collection of 14 paintings by the 20th century Russian artists Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov. Read More

Inside the Utopia Factory

BY Peter Lowe POSTED 01/06/2018 2:00 PM

Our new contributor, Dr. Peter Lowe, ponders over the fate of the People’s Art School in Vitebsk and the UNOVIS and discusses the artistic relationship between Marc Chagall and Kazimir Malevich while strolling through Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. We also invite you to think about the place of personal artistic utopias within […] Read More

PROTEST AND PERIL: AGAINST THE STATE. PETR PAVLENSKY

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 27/04/2018 9:48 AM

We live in violent times. Petr Pavlensky quotes Vladimir Lenin on the State as a ‘special apparatus for the systematic application of violence and the submission of people to violence’. While he looks back to Nijinsky, Mayakovsky, Van Gogh and twentieth-century actions his celebrated protest pieces, Suture, Carcass, Fixation, Freedom, Segregation, Threat are encoded in the globally accessible eternal […] Read More

Nikolay Fyodorov: Russia’s Forgotten Thinker

BY Arianna Cantarelli POSTED 06/04/2018 12:39 AM

In a curious, if not puzzling, manner, Russian Orthodox Easter and themes of the Russian Cosmism seem to somehow chime together. Perhaps, some of the readers still remember the year when the Orthodox Easter fell on the Cosmonautics Day, and everyone was commenting on this remarkable coincidence. Perhaps, it is not so chance a coincidence […] Read More

Philosopher Mikhail Epstein Lectures in London

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 01/04/2018 7:40 PM

The Club Open Russia and ARCC join forces in bringing to London a brilliant Russo-American philosopher, philologist and intellectual Mikhail Epstein who is going to present a comprehensive overview of the processes taking place in the modern Russian language, the ups and downs, as well as of limitations and opportunities of the current situation. Read More

Rilke und Russland, Moscow, Ostroukhov’s House

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 14/03/2018 5:35 PM

The fact that Russia is my homeland belongs to the great and mysterious inner convictions that I live by. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Traveling to Russia Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) called the “decisive event” of his life. Together with Lou Andreas-Salomé, visited Russia and modern-day Ukraine.These trips should count as two of the most powerfully influential […] Read More

CFP: “Abramtsevo and Its Legacies: Neo-National Art, Craft and Design”, an issue of Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture, Deadline 31 March

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 26/02/2018 10:09 AM

Call for Article Proposals Dr Louise Hardiman (CCRAC) will be co-editing the 2019 issue of Experiment: A Journal of Russian Culture, together with Ludmila Piters-Hofmann of Jacobs University, Bremen. The editors invite proposals for articles on the theme of ‘Abramtsevo and Its Legacies: Neo-National Art, Craft and Design’. The 2019 edition (Issue 25) of the […] Read More

Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe, Calvert 22, 23 February

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 12/02/2018 12:32 PM

Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe is a group show of photography exploring new visual representations of lifestyle and landscape in Eastern Europe. The exhibition gathers the work of a young generation of artists rising to prominence a quarter century after the end of Communism. The photographers in Post-Soviet Visions come from Georgia, Germany, […] Read More

Alexander Borodin: “I am Nothing More than a Sunday Musician”.

BY Anna Lumbroso POSTED 18/01/2018 10:31 AM

Alexander Borodin was one of the rare talents to master two vocations: chemistry and music. A naturally gifted composer and a brilliant scientist, he was a member of ‘The Mighty Handful’, a group of composers dedicated to celebrating Russian heritage through their music. Unfortunately, he is not that well-known in the West. Time to breach this gap! […] Read More

IGOR GOLOMSTOCK MEMORIAL EVENING, PUSHKIN HOUSE, 11 JANUARY

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 23/12/2017 2:34 PM

The art historian Igor Golomstock, who died last July, was born on 11 January 1929, in the old Russian city of Tver. Please join us to celebrate Igor’s life and work on what would have been his 89th birthday. Igor is best known for his Totalitarian Art (1990), the first serious study of the similarities […] Read More

Russian Revolution in Music: 1917 and the Aftermath.

BY Anna Lumbroso POSTED 21/12/2017 9:26 AM

Russia experienced a period of cultural prosperity during the three decades leading up to 1917. Poetry went through what was called the ‘Silver age’ and with it music, dance and visual arts also flourished. Many of its strongest advocates had developed strong links in Europe, particularly France. With the arrival of the Bolshevik’s many of these close ties were severed and the […] Read More

Russian Art and Culture Helps Rediscover Works by Russian-Ukrainian Avant-Garde Artist Alexis Gritchenko

BY Irene Kukota POSTED 18/12/2017 5:40 PM

On 28th November, the team of the Russian Art and Culture celebrated the London launch of Dynamocolour — the first monograph on the oeuvre of the Ukrainian-Russian avant-garde artist Alexis Gritchenko written by the art historian Vita Susak. The event took place during the Russian Art Week at the Shapero Rare Books Gallery, in the immediate […] Read More

MEDIEVAL RUS’ AND ITS NEIGHBORS. Proposals for Monographs Welcome

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 11/12/2017 7:39 PM

The series intend to publish books, both new research in English and translations of monographs and sources in other languages that cover the early history, literature, archaeology, art and culture of the lands that were previously the territory of the former Soviet Union. The series will employ a broad interpretation of the medieval period by […] Read More

LIVING MEMORIES: ANDREEA MIRONESCU ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN LITERATURE

BY Borimir Totev POSTED 06/12/2017 3:27 PM

This October, Yale University Press has released in English the translation of one of the most compelling novels on the Armenian Genocide, written by a Romanian author with Armenian origins, Varujan Vosganian. The Book of Whispers was originally published in 2009 and soon after it gained international recognition due to its translation in more than […] Read More

Constructing a New Russia with Visual Imagery

BY Alexandra Lunn POSTED 04/12/2017 8:25 PM

Imagine a world without posters, adverts, screens, cameras and iphones. Imagine a place where meaningful relationships and community come first. Publishing your life through a lens is a surreal, abstract and incomprehensible idea. Welcome to Russia at the turn of the 20th century. Industrialisation had positive and negatives effects on Russia. It created wealth, jobs, […] Read More

Application for Artist Residency Programme in Torun, Poland, Open for Submission Until 15 December

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 04/12/2017 4:43 PM

Toruń Cultural Agency is pleased to invite overseas artists to participate in the annual Artist Residency Programme, aiming to encourage creative projects in the field of cultural education and other artistic community activities. Visual artists, dancers, musicians, writers, poets, literary translators and other creative souls are invited to submit an application and express their artistic potential in Poland. […] Read More

The Russian Revolution and Its Impact on the Left in Britain, SSEES, 4 December to 8 December

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 04/12/2017 11:00 AM

SSEES is very pleased to have been loaned this exhibition on the impact of the Russian Revolution on Trade Unions and the Left in Britain by The TUC (Trades Union Congress) Library. On display in the Masaryk Senior Common Room from the 4-8th December. In the years following 1917, the aftershocks of the Russian Revolution […] Read More

Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives. New Book Release

BY Russian Art & Culture POSTED 29/11/2017 12:45 PM

We are delighted to announce the release of a new publication, Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives, edited by Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow. The book is available as an Open Access edition online (free of charge), as well as in other digital format and printed editions available for purchase from Open Book Publishers. […] Read More

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