Till February 3, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art The exhibition features over 80 works by acclaimed (знаменитый) Belgian poet, filmmaker, and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), including (включающий в себя) many of the his key pieces —from early objects and films to sections of the project Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles, as well as…
It’s Oscar time again. It’s Oscar time again. On Jan. 22, among the nominations for 2019 awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy will announce the five short documentary films up for the Oscar. Among the shortlisted (шорт-лист финалистов) films is the documentary “Women of the Gulag” by Russian-American director, Marianna Yarovskaya.…
A retrospective of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera finally comes to the Russian capital “Viva La Vida: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera” at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall may be the most anticipated (ожидаемый) exhibition this winter in Moscow. The show is a collaborative project between St. Petersburg’s Faberge Museum, the Link of Times Cultural…
Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport has become the 10th busiest hub in Europe. Sheremetyevo said it transported 4.7 million passengers between June and July when the World Cup was hosted, an 11 percent increase from June-July 2017. A total of 45.8 million travelers passed through its halls throughout (в течение) 2018. The 2018 FIFA World Cup hosted…
Moscow State University (MSU) has been named the fifth best university in developing countries in an annual rating published by the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine Overall, 35 Russian schools made the 2019 rankings — eight more than last year — making Russia the fourth most represented (представленная) country in the list. “Russia’s performance is…
The Russian government is set to invest millions in revamping its own version of business network LinkedIn. The US-based network was blocked in Russia in 2016 after failing to comply with a law which requires internet companies to store data on Russian citizens in servers based within the country itself.Russia’s Labour Ministry launched a strikingly…
50 Works by The Father of Russian Futurism An important figure in Russian art of the early 20th century, David Burliuk (1882, Kharkov — 1967, New York was a poet, painter, critic, and publisher who became the center of the Russian Futurist movement (направление). Burliuk was one of the first to publish the poetry of…
Alexander Loginov ensured Russia’s men completed a unique relay double with victory in the 4×7.5km event at the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof, Germany. The men’s team of Loginov, Dmitry Malyshko, Evgeniy Garanichev and Maxim Tsvetkov matched the women’s result earlier in the 4x6km relay (эстафета) to make it a golden day for Russia.It is…
A renovated avant-garde apartment promising to transport tourists back to a “1930s utopia” has opened its doors to guests in Moscow. Nestled in a 1932 building designed by Constructivist architect Ivan Nikolaev, the apartment has been painstakingly (тщательно) recreated by Alexander Dudnev and Konstantin Gudkov.Built close to a cluster of Moscow’s major (основной) train stations…
Moscow’s Tretyakov Galllery has collaborated with the American perfume company Demeter Library of Fragrance to capture the scent and atmosphere of the museum’s well-known paintings. There are eight painting-inspired scents (духи) avialable: Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky’s Morning in a Pine Forest, Valentin Serov’s Girl with Peaches, Mikhail Vrubel’s Lilacs, Vasily Polenov’s Granny’s Orchard, Arkhip…