Keywords: Art

Art and creativity

The film “Duelist” opened the festival in France

Фильм Алексея Мизгирёва был показан на открытии фестиваля российского кино

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Released in the Russian hire on September 29 “Duelist” went to the festival in Honfleur. As recognized by the producer of the film Alexander Rodnyansky, it is the oldest and most important festival of Russian cinema in Europe. “Scrapper” – a dramatic, exciting, emotional story with an unexpected and strong character, and we hoped that it would find an echo in the hearts of the French audience,” added Rodnyansky.

Hopes for a French audience the producer was no accident – despite the fact that the festival is devoted only to the Russian cinema, to a greater extent evaluate the work come the French, not the Russians who had emigrated. For French spectators attend the festival – is already an annual November tradition established in Normandy for more than twenty years ago.

Mysterious, ambiguous painting with the slogan “On the dark side of honour” shows the Russian soul, with all its secret corners and non-healing wounds. It should be noted that only for the first two weeks in Russia “Wins” gathered 6,012,377$. The rating of film critics official website kinopoisk.ru was 85%. For the Director Alexey Mizgirev, whose films such as “Dismissal”, “Flint”, “Stone head”, “Tambourine, drum”, “Convoy” and TV series “Kulagin and partners”, “Duelist” was the debut project.

And high expectations from the festival in Honfleur: the jury is headed by French literary critic, writer, and actor, writer and filmmaker Frederic Beigbeder. While among the paintings, which are presented in the competitive program of Honfleur this year, the participants and winners of the Open Russian film festival “Kinotavr” movies “Collector” Alexey Krasovsky, “Fish-a dream” by Anton Bilzho, “Cloth Union” Michael Mestechko. In a parallel non-competition program “Panorama” will be shown the winner of the Grand Prix of the “Kinotavr” in 2015 – the film “About love” by Anna Melikyan.

After the festival, 2 Dec 2016 “Duelist” was released in us theaters, and a little later to watch a movie can the people of China.

About how after “God” appeared “Ministry”

Арундати Рой готовит к изданию второй роман

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“Ministry of Utmost happiness” is the second novel of Arundhati Roy which is preparing to come out in 2017, according to publisher Penguin 3. Her first book was “the God of small things”, released 20 years ago and which took the Pulitzer prize. We tried to find out what changes in Roy’s life has taken place and what they resulted.

The first Arundhati’s novel made her one of the most famous authors of the ‘ 90s. Then she put a career as a writer and changed roles. For a long time she was engaged in public activity: he criticized US foreign policy, led the fight for human rights, was an investigative journalist. The most popular project Roy was the struggle against the construction of a dam on the river Narmada, which was spent by her all of the money raised for the novel. Also the popularity was brought to her rejection of the most important literary prize of the Indian Sahitya.

About the new novel is little known. “Amazing, multi-layered book – perhaps the best novel we have read in recent years”, say the publishers of the book. In the making of this work Arundhati Roy highlights the special role of John Berger, her friend who persuaded her to continue working on a novel.

“The God of small things”, Arundhati brought fame, ranks first among the best-selling books by Indian authors living in his native country. And The New York Times awarded him the fourth place in the ranking of best sellers.

Monument Maya Plisetskaya in Moscow

В день рождения балерины на Большой Дмитровке открыли скульптуру в образе Кармен

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Monument to nine meters tall carved familiar with Plisetskaya personally, honored artist of Russia Viktor Mitroshin big fan of ballet dancers.
The project architect Alexei Tikhonov said:
“Our main goal was to create the illusion of soaring ballerina on a background of the sky, in our view, it is possible -. Sculpture floating in the air”

The initiator of the sculpture is a ballet dancer’s husband – composer Rodion Shchedrin.
He will be present at the opening of the monument, on November 20 in the square named after Plisetskaya on Bolshaya Dmitrovka. The event also invited outstanding artists, representatives of the Ministry of Culture and the Moscow government.

Maya Plisetskaya and her husband Rodion Shchedrin
Maya Plisetskaya and her husband Rodion Shchedrin

On the opening of the monument mentioned in his Twitter Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Dmitrovka became one of the first streets, which was implemented by the City Hall project “My Street” and the square named after Plisetskaya appeared there because of it.

Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Bogatyrev
Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Bogatyrev

According to the Russian Ministry of Culture of the cost of the monument was 20 million rubles. However, Deputy Minister of Culture said that the money from the budget in the project have not been involved, bronze sculpture was cast at the expense of the private charitable foundation Alisher Usmanov “Art, Science and Sports.”

According to the sculptors of the monument must give great importance to Plisetskaya Russian ballet. Choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev happily took the news of the imminent appearance of the monument and said that Maya Plisetskaya will forever remain in the history of ballet, because it could change the aesthetics of dance, emphasize its musicality. “When I looked at Plisetskaya, I saw the music” – he said.

Maya Plisetskaya and Sergei Radchenko
Maya Plisetskaya and Sergei Radchenko

Premiere on the stage of Theatre of Nations

Новый спектакль Марата Гацалова, основанный на тексте британской пьесы

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The production received the award “the gold Mask” created based on the play by Duncan Macmillan, the famous English playwright of our time. The writer was twice nominated for one of the most prestigious British awards – the award of Lawrence Olivier.

Artistic Director
Artistic Director

The main characters of the action – “supporters of a healthy lifestyle: they do not care what they eat, how much water you spend, when brushing my teeth and how the waste is disposed of”. However “for picture perfect is not enough only children. And this fact prevents them to live quietly” — a fragment from the announcement of the performance on the website of the Theatre of the Nation.

The scenery
The scenery

In an interview for “Theatre” Marat Gatsalov has shared his impressions of the works: “a discourse in which there are two character in connection with the desire to have children.” The artistic Director added that the play “Breath”, “how “the ballet of everyday life”, where things in his obsession turn to dance” – said the artistic Director.

For a more vivid and accurate transformation of the actors in the characters of the play, the Director has attracted professionals: artists Peretruhina Xenia and Alexey Lobanov, artist Asya Mukhina, composer and choreographer of Sergei Nevsky and Tatyana Gordeeva.

The main role performed by actress Lyudmila Troshina, with which the Director has worked in the Novosibirsk theatre “Globus”, the play “August. Osage County” and actor Roman Shalyapin.

Photo from Billboard
Photo from Billboard

The minimalist scenery is the business card of the play “Breath”. Artistic Director refused to reveal all the secrets of the production of scenery, wanting to leave the intrigue when viewing the work.

Within a few days (from 7 to 9 November) on the Small stage of the theatre of Nations will be held premiere performances, and this year the screenings will be held on 4 and 5 December.

Riot against fashion

Почему не нужно бояться носить «гранж»

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Style grunge quite heterogeneous, there are many variations of it. The general idea of this stylistic direction – resistance fashion. Often a rebellion against fashion creates a new style. Grunge – a good example. The word “grunge” came from the American slang. It means something unpleasant and repulsive.

Aboriginal youth are considered rebels and numerous fans of rock bands, who often copy the behavior and lifestyle of their idols. Followers edakogo marginal chic came from Seattle, where I came from groups such as Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden,  and not by accident.These groups in their texts talked about the new reality and freedom in all spheres of life, and especially – for self-expression.

Rock band "Nirvana"
Rock band “Nirvana”

Grunge – a flannel plaid shirt, long, carelessly arranged hair, torn pantyhose or mesh, leather and metal ornaments, frayed jeans or shorts, plaid skirts, hats, beanies and heavy, solid shoes. Grunge style intersects with such styles as the “military” and often fans of grunge in the preparation of a camouflage image is used.

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The origins of the style is the desire to resist the fashion, but this desire has resulted in yet another direction in clothing. It would not have tried followers marginal style challenge and break the fashion templates, they are trapped, because grunge – is quite different combinations of certain things. Style ceased to be truly marginalized in the early nineties when the American designer Marc Jacobs within the Fashion Week showed her collection, made in grunge style. Then grunge ceased to relate human to a particular social group. On this day, this style is often ill teenagers, lovers of rock music, the participants of some subcultures and even the stars.

Two anniversaries. “Two biographies”

В выставочном центре «Новый Манеж» открылась экспозиция о Булгакове

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On the Oct 28, 2016  the exhibition “Bulgakov. Two biographies” opened in the exhibition hall called New Manege. There are two anniversaries being celebrated this year: 125 years since the writer’s date of birth , and 50 years – since the very first publication of his most famous novel “The Master and Margarita.”

“Project” Bulgakov. Two biographies ” is a vivid example of coollaboration between the museums. Creating the architecture and design, a crew of “Manege” worked in permanent contact with the curators of the Bulgakov’s House – says Irina Tolpina, managing director Moscow Museum and Exhibition Association Manege. – A visit to the exhibition will be a dive into the world which connects the images of literary works with the reality in which he lived and worked as a writer. ”

Archive documents, provided by Bulgakov's House.
Archive documents, provided by Bulgakov’s House.

The exhibition is divided into halves. In the first one, under the glass cases there are archive documents which tell Bulgakov’s biography, present his first fees and difficult way to the reader: in late 1920s his works were banned and named “anti-Soviet”. Bulgakov even counted that among the reviews on his works there had been 300  “hostile and abusive” ones and only three hab been laudatory.

N.Ulyanov's sketches for Bulgakov's play called "The Days Of Turbin".
N.Ulyanov’s sketches for Bulgakov’s play called “The Days Of Turbin”.

The second half of the exhibition is devoted to the theater, which played an essential role in Bulgakov’s life. His plays “Days of the Turbin” “Crimson Island,” “Zoyka’s flat” and “Moliere” were put on the main stages of the country – in Chekhov’s Moscow Art Theater, and Bolshoi Theatre. Visitors will be able to be backstage and try to undertand the process of writer’s clash with the Soviet censorship and even contemplate Bulgakov as an actor: in 1935 he played the President of the Court in the movie “The Pickwick Club”, based on the novel written by Charles Dickens.

Reconstructed Bulgakov's apartment, situated in Naschokin's lane.
Reconstructed Bulgakov’s apartment, situated in Naschokin’s lane. Photo sourse: Russian Newspaper

A part of the exhibition is a replica of Bulgakov’s apartment, reconstructed via his contemporaries’ memoirs, extant outlines and black and white photos. But it was impossible to reconstruct everything accurately. There is a layout drawn on the floor, and words “sofa”, “chair”, “piano” display the furniture which hasn’t been found. In this apartment did Bulgakov work on the novel “The Master and Margarita” till the end of his life. There he created the “Notes of the deceased” and the play “Batum” about Stalin’s youth, with whom the writer even had a phone conversation, having made it clear that Bulgakov’s works would never be printed.

The exhibition will be open until the Jan. 9, 2017, and everyone has a chance to delve into Bulgakov’s work and biography, to assess if the crew of the Exhibition Centre successfully coped with the task by collecting about 700 materials from libraries and private collections, museums and archives in one single exhibition. Apart from the exposure itself, the project organizers have prepared a special program. It will include lectures of specialists in literature and history of theatre, panel discussions, film screenings and tours.

The winner of the Booker Prize 2016 is announced

Им стал американский писатель Пол Битти

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October 25, London hosted a ceremony of awarding the winners of the Booker Prize 2016 was awarded the Victory 54 year old black writer from California for his fourth novel, “Sales”.

The main idea of the book is ridiculing the American racial politics. According to experts, such a wit as the author of “sale”, they have not seen since the days of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain. Despite fears of Paul Beatty that readers can not understand his work, the book has received high evaluation of the jury and caused an unprecedented boom. For a writer, it was a real surprise.

In addition to Beatty for the main prize, which is fifty thousand pounds, fought Deborah Levy (Great Britain), Graeme McRae Barnet (United Kingdom), Ottessa Moshfegh (USA), David Szali (Canada), Madeleine Thien (Canada).

Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the English literary society. Some of its owners subsequently became laureates of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The first presentation was held in 1969. Initially, it could only get the citizens of one of the states of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe. However, in 2013, the prize may be awarded to any published writer for Britain in a book written in English or translated into that language.

The Booker Prize winner
The award ceremony

Sturgis agitated Moscow

Выставку "Без смущения" пришлось закрыть

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Eduard Litvinsky and Chairman of “Officers of Russia” Anton Tsvetkov took the decision to close the exhibition “Jock Stragies. Without embarrassment”.

Litvinsky noted that the scandalous pictures that caused hot debate on the Network, in fact, were not represented in the gallery, but that is happening already acquired such a public outcry, so the exhibition had to be closed.

Jock Sturges. Eva_ le Porge, France, 2003
Jock Sturges. Eva_ le Porge, France, 2003

The exhibition “Jock Sturges. Without embarrassment” presented by the Center, was marked 18+. Photographer for many years filming a family of nudists in France, Northern California and Ireland, with many of them his friends.

However, the exhibition “Without embarrassment” closed – not to confuse the public. Litvinsky also told reporters that the administration threatened because of the exhibition Jock Stragies. Some threats went beyond the boundaries of discussion on the Internet is so anonymous activist said that the show offends family values, and poured a few photos of an unknown liquid.

Twitter photographer "Komsomolskaya Pravda"
Twitter photographer of “Komsomolskaya Pravda”

“My work is exhibited by galleries in different countries,” noted photographer. “Those who are captured on my photos, perhaps, more moral than most of their critics,” the announced Strages in an interview. A series of his photographs repeatedly caused mixed reactions – before they attracted the attention of Christian activists from the US, but anyway, all charges against the photographer were dropped.

Previously Anna Kuznetsova, a new children’s Ombudsman, and Senator Elena Mizulina demanded that the Prosecutor General’s office to check on the exhibit, calling it pornographic. Public chamber of Russia has previously called the exhibition “propaganda of pedophilia”, however, now calls for a Commission of art historians and to conduct the examination.

Leo plus Leo

Россиянин Роман Бурцев готов доказать своё родство с Ди Каприо

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the Photo: Komsomolskaya Pravda

Double Leonardo DiCaprio thirty-year-old Russian Roman Burtsev has expressed readiness to undergo a DNA test to prove a direct relationship with Bursevich DiCaprio.

The last film involving the world’s superkara the Novel did not like implausible, explains a double, but the game “relative” of the novel as a whole estimated at “Oscar”, which was ready in some way to help.

He nominated for the award makes no secret of its Russian roots: the story was such that after the October revolution, grandmother of the future six-time nominee for “Oscar” was taken by his parents to Germany. For a long time she lived in West Germany where she met her future husband William in 1955, the year they both emigrated to the United States.

In 2010 at the “Tiger summit” in conversation with Vladimir Putin, Leonardo said that despite the departure from Russia at an early age my grandmother still spoke Russian. Moreover, the actor’s grandfather was also Russian, it turns out that the actor is half Russian.

Burtsev, as you know, not the first double DiCaprio: last year a “clone” Leo was the 21-year-old bartender from Sweden, but he has received such massive attention.