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Two artists from Germany Marion Ruthardt and Gregor Vosika created 3D pictures in several Moscow parks for Nike's club "I'm jogging".
We often postpone important decisions "until Monday". For example the decision to do our health. But all of this obstacles are just an illusion. These illusory street paintings were made to demonstrate this. One can see this works in five Moscow parks: Vorobyevy Gory, Serebryanny Bor (Silver Forest), Bitzevsky park, Sokolniki and Kuskovo.
During the eight centuries of its existence the Moscow Kremlin has been a witness of many famous and tragic events of our history. Its walls rattled enemy guns, there were noisy celebrations and simmering rebellions in the streets. Now the Moscow Kremlin is one of the largest museums in the world. State regalia of Russia, invaluable icons, treasures of Russian tsars stored in its palaces and cathedrals.
There're enough pictures of the Moscow Kremlin in the web. But these views are very rare, they were taken at the closed guided tour of its walls and towers. It's fine weather in Moscow again, so it has been a wonderful context for these photographs.
Hello, everybody! Sorry for the long silence& I returned from my vacations, moved into the new apartment, and celebrated my Bday. So I'm back to you)
Now Moscow has some pause from the awful smog caused with the forest fires in the near regions. But a couple of days ago we've been forced to see throw the such of shroud. The people wore gauze band... Read more »
Organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art - 2006" are fined. Tagansky Moscow court on Monday sentenced Andrey Erofeev (former head of the department of the latest trends of the Tretyakov Gallery) and Yuri Samodurov (former director of the Sakharov Museum) in fines about twelve thousand dollars totally. The court found them guilty of inciting hatred and enmity as well as humiliation of human dignity by using his official position.
And here's the background. In 2006, Erofeev made an exhibition investigating the issue of censorship in modern Russia. He collected works which were taken from different shows at different times. There were screens with the notices written on them. This exhibition caused the criminal case against the curator. The prosecutor demanded three years in pri... Read more »
From June, 11th Red October Factory presents the exhibition of the winners of "World Press Photo" worldwide contest. "World Press Photo" is not simple beautiful photos but reflection of reality, fixing of the main events of the past year. Here's the some pictures of winners' works. Just the single frames.
The best photo of the year
Pietro Masturzo, Italy
Local news
Adam Ferguson, Australia, VII Mentor Program for The New York Times. December, 15th, Kabul. The woman escapes from the place of explosion.
Moscow Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod presents several projects in the frames of Second Biennale of Young Art «Stop! Qui Vive?» The part of the main program is shown in the former manufacture of white wine and in the manufacture of red wine (Moscow Winzavod is located in the spaces of former winery). Here’re some pictures from these shows.
«Attention! Crossing the border!»
Curators — Alberto Podio, Allegra Ravitstsa (Italy)
Street art, photography, installations.
July, 3th — 25th
Participants: The Bounty KillART (Ita... Read more »
From June, 11th to July, 11th the M&J Guelman gallery on Winzavod presents the exhibition of one of the most interesting for me artists of Moscow contemporary art scene. It's Recycle group - Andrey Blokhin and Egor Kuznetsov.
In its new project, the group doesn't really try to translate the "hieroglyphics" of classical art, but, rather, to find new uses for them – i.e. recycle them, having looked at them from another side, from that very reverse side which points the classics in the direction of the pres... Read more »
"War" is a modern Moscow art group operating in the field of conceptual street art. The group is known for some scandalous performances. It's no less than sixty persons - poets, artists, linguists, journalists, students.They collaborate with a variety of artistic and political structures and they consider that their teachers in modern art are Alexander Brener, Andrey Monastery and Vadim Zakharov. One of the founders of Moscow Conceptualism Dmitry Prigov was close to early composition of the group.
The "War's" performances include provocation, violation of generally accepted standards of morality in public places, public disorderly conduct, obscene language, and sometimes even damage to property. Its first action was held on May 1, 2007. Then the activists threw cats in the McDonalds in Moscow. On March 2008 they carri... Read more »
Up to the fall of 2011th the Main Stage of Bolshoi Theatre will be closed for the reconstruction. Now the most part of the shows are performed on the New Stage and some performances are held on the stage of the Great Kremlin Palace. The New Stage is located quite cleverly so it's rather difficult to find it at the first time. Here's the map and some pictures of its interiors.
New Stage was opened in 2002th, on November, 29. A new scene is built close to the historic building of the Main Stage of Bolshoi, at the left side of it. Together with auxiliary buildings (a restored building of XVIII century, where to rehearsal halls, artists' recreation r... Read more »
From the 1st of July to the 1st of August the Second Biennale of young art "Stop! Qui vive?" will be held in Moscow. It's one of the largest and ambitious projects on the contemporary Russian art scene The Biennale unites artistic initiatives of the whole Russia, the countries of near and far abroad. Leading art centers of Moscow in collaboration with regional and international partners take part in its preparation and realization.
The key criteria for participant selection is not only the age, but also in many cases phase. The matter concerns the spirit, the pathos of the young art, creative passion, bold experiments in search of new vision and method. The organizers of the festival say "Stop!" to the young authors, asking them ... Read more »
