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Art exhibition, "Long Way Home" by an award winning Japanese painter, Minako Ota, will be on display and open to the public at the All-Russia Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Arts from May 31 till July 29, 2012. Museum is located at: Delegatskaya Street 3, Moscow. The opening reception will be at the museum on Thursday, May 31, 6-8 PM.
Koi Diptych by Minako Ota (Acrylic on Panels and Silver Leaf, 48.5 x 122.5 cm)
Minako Ota grew up in Japan and was trained in traditional Japanese painting at an art university in Tokyo. Right after the graduation s... Read more »
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The World Press Photo 2011 exhibition is shown in Moscow on the territory of Red October factory. It'll last up to 10th of June. The show contains almost two hundreds of works and reflects the most meaningful events of the 2010th.
Joost van den Broek, Russian Sailor
World Press Photo contest aims to support professional press photography on a wide international scale. Promotional activities include an annual contest, exhibitions, the stimulation of photojournalism through educational programs, and creating greater visibility for press photography through a variety of publications. The 2011 exhibition is on display in Moscow, Tokyo, Reykjavik, Berlin, Madrid, Charlottesville, Brisbane, Vilnius, Paris, Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro.
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The festival Museums' Night 2011 will pass in Moscow at 14th of May. About 160 museums will take part in it, make free entrance for visitors and prepare special programs. In addition classical music will be performed on Moscow metro stations. All the museums will be open up to 0:00.
Night in Museum (from Russian)
There're some most interesting art spots and their programs.
- Multimedia Art Museum. The offline version of unique Google's art project (www.googleartproject.com). One will be able to see 17 main museums of the world, virtually of course.
- ArtPlay center. PLUM FEST, the festival of audiovisual instruments.
- Laboratoria Art & Science Space. Series of the installations by Patrick K.-H, video by Sergey Shutov, sound by Valentin Fetiso... Read more »
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The «Alternative Fashion before Glossies, 1985-1995» show displays the history of alternative fashion, a trend that emerged at the junction of rock and squat club culture, during the period that started with early perestroika and ended in mid 1990s. The gathering of Avant-Garde artists, musicians, representatives of various subcultures – of punk, rock, the New Wave – gave birth to a unique phenomenon of alternative fashion with shows often turning into performances.
Its catwalks were not only such venues as the Fashion House in the Kuznetsky Most street, the shows often took place at the concerts of Sergei Kuryokhin’s Popular Mechanics group, the Sovincenter hall, and squats, concert halls where rock music roared, and streets in the center of the city. Alternative fashion was made famous by incredible combinations of ... Read more »
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The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow will open the exhibition with classic designs by Christian Dior. The show is named "Dior: Under the Sign of Art". It revives the atmosphere of the luxury and inimitable style by Dior based on his deep connection to the art world. The unity of past and present is palpable in the museum's interior where the models appear on the background of well known works of art.
The show will last up to the end of June. Here is some pictures from the preparing.
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In July 2005th Main Stage was closed for reconstruction. I posted the set of the pictures of its interiors several months ago. Now the reconstruction is almost finished, the Main Stage is to open up to the new season with a premiere of Glinka’s opera «Ruslan and Lyudmila» (director — Dmitry Chernyakov). And we can look at the new set of pictures with gorgeous inner spaces of Bolshoi.
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It's funny indeed, but rather predictable. The art group "War" and its "Dick in the captivity of KGB" has just taken a main award on the Innovation art contest in the nomination "A work of visual art".
Other winners are as follows:
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The «Fiction and Reality» show at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Gogolevsky boulevard is held within Spain Year 2011 in Russia. The project presents works by contemporary Spanish artists form the collection at the Patio Herreriano Museum. The Collection counts over 1000 works and is considered to be the biggest collection of contemporary Spanish art.
The curator of the exhibition is the chief coordinator of the Collection — Maria de Corral, world famous art historian. For the project in Moscow she has selected works which illustrate the full spectrum of contemporary Spanish art. The exhibition will include a range of works in various media created in the past decade, and will feature artists who are all important figures in the contemporary Spanish art scene.
Participating artists: Juan Uslé, Fernan... Read more »
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The exhibition "Solyanka. The Temple for the Former Love" by Dasha Yastrebova opened in "Meglinskaya" gallery. It's a series of pictures from one of the trendiest Moscow night club Solyanka that was taken two years ago. Then this night club was new, its visitors were young, liberated and greedy for entertainment. So called hipsters. Dasha Yastrebova, very young and perspective Russian artist, used to work in Solyanka as a photographer two years ago and collected a lot of photo documents of that crazy nights.
The exhibition will last up to 15/04. "Meglinskaya" gallery is located on the territory of Winzavod center for contemporary art.
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The exhibition of the "Innovation" art contest nominees will be held in the National Center for Contemporary Arts from the 29th of March to the 8th of May. Here's some pictures of the nominees' art works. There was a kind of a scandal with the current short list. Some members of the art community demanded to exclude "War" group from the contest. But it wasn't done. And now "War" is one of the favorites of the competition. If their "Dick" win it'll be funny)
Andrey Monastyrsky. The "Corridor of KD" installation
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