Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is paying tribute to English romantic writer William Blake, the poet and artist famed for his florid imagination and unconventional views. Moscow's Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is paying tribute to English romantic writer...

... super-organized and in the craziest places, very ambitious," said one artist, who like all those who spoke to The Moscow Times asked for their names not to be used. "We have nearly twenty graffiti shops, and a city like Paris, a center for street art, has just ten," said another artist Dobry. It is also easy to get away if you are caught. "If the cop is in a decent mood and you are a good talker," said artist 0331 c. The taggers have precise teams with each person having a specific...

... Russia’s greatest actors of the second half of the 20th century – Innokenty Smoktunovsky and Oleg Yefremov. This, I hasten to add, was a purely professional encounter. The year was 1992 and I was seated comfortably among spectators at the Moscow Art Theater while Smoktunovsky and Yefremov performed in Vyacheslav Dolgachyov’s production of “The Possible Meeting,” a comedy composed by German writer and journalist Paul Barz about an imaginary meeting between the great composers...

... get at the daughter is sublime. Two scenes of farewell between Negina and Petya may not coax tears from stone, but I would expect them to slay most flesh-and-blood spectators. While honoring an old tradition of theater as an unhurried, painstaking art, Karbauskis infuses this mostly modern-dress version of "Talents and Admirers" with a crisp, contemporary feel. Rhythmic in its action and speech, and subtly organized in its visual images, it brings the past and present together in one...

Tatyana Yang’s art, currently on show at the Central Manezh until Feb. 19, is inspired by the prayer Litany of the Saints and is full of images of nature and still lifes. The works were shown in the Vologda Kremlin last year. Temporary Exhibitions Permanent Displays...

The Dresden Gallery shows Olga Pobedova’s collection of suprematist-influenced sculptures made from optical glass. http://artdresden.ru Temporary Exhibitions Permanent Displays 11.12 Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art: Alexander Zhirnoklyuyev shows recent paintings from his “On Black” series, to Feb. 16. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 798-5430, www.paperworks.ru Aidan Gallery...

... York in 1949, about a Holocaust survivor who finds himself involved with two wives and a fiancee. Sovremennik Theater. 7 p.m. New Gorki-10: Dmitry Krymov’s new staging based on fragments of Russian and Soviet dramatic works. School of Dramatic Art. 7 p.m. Look Back in Anger (Oglyanis vo Gneve): John Osborne’s play about a love triangle as staged by Yakov Lomkin. Satirikon Theater small stage. 7:30 p.m. Money (Dengi): Konstantin Raikin stages a crime comedy based on Alexander Ostrovsky’s...

... McDonagh's dark comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan” on Feb. 18, March 3 and 24 at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 9th MT Pick Auction (Torgi): Dmitry Krymov stages a bittersweet comedy about loss based on Chekhov’s plays. School of Dramatic Art production. Project Otkrytaya Stsena. 7 p.m. Cirque du Soleil with the Zarkana acrobatic rock show. Kremlin Palace. 8 p.m. Dead Souls (Myortviye Dushi): Sergei Artsibashev directs and stars in Vladimir Malyagin’s play based on Nikolai Gogol’s...

St. Petersburg-based experimental electronica group "The Digital Forks" plays Gogol on Sunday. Expect Japanese-inspired percussion and English vocals. 7 p.m. Thursday, February 2nd 26 Herz: swing. Soyuz Kompozitorov. 8:30 p.m. Art Ceilidh: folk rock. Kitaisky Lyotchik Dzhao Da. 9 p.m. Artyom Tatishchevsky: rap. Shestnadtsat Tonn. 9 p.m. MT Pick Boris Grebenshchikov and Akvarium: rock. B2. 9 p.m. Bro Sound: reggae, ska, hip-hop. Gogol. 8 p.m. Dmitry Chetvergov: guitar. Radio...

... from government officials. Russia even suggested that the whole complex be removed to Moscow, but the monument was blown up by Georgian officials before this plan could be enacted. Much of the monument debate focuses on whether a monument is a work of art or merely an artifact. This issue never seems to goes away. Take, for example, the 2006 exhibit in Schverin of Arno Breker, Hitler's favorite sculptor. Or the exhibits of Lev Kerbel, who erected monuments to Lenin worldwide. Can it be said that the...

Mixed-martial-arts world champion Rasul Mirzayev, who is accused of manslaughter in the death of a 19-year-old man, was freed on bail Monday. Mixed-martial-arts world champion Rasul Mirzayev, who is accused of manslaughter in the death of a 19-year-old...

An appellate panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to free mixed-martial-arts world champion Rasul Mirzayev on bail. An appellate panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to free mixed-martial-arts world champion Rasul Mirzayev on bail, news agency Rapsi reported. A Moscow court ruled that Mirzayev, who is accused of...

... a renaissance since the appearance of Russia's newly emboldened opposition. Political satire has been enjoying a renaissance since the appearance of Russia's newly emboldened opposition. Opposition activists are trading YouTube videos and Web art that lampoon the ruling elite with the same zest that Soviet dissidents once traded banned literature. Now that trend has found its way to the mobile phone in the form of a game called "Demokratia," which has become one of the most popular...

... located not far from the Savyolovskaya metro station costs from 200 rubles to 450 rubles ($6 to $15), and individual excursions in English are available. For the more artistic, creative workshops are located on the territory of the Winzavod contemporary art center and occupy an area of 230 square meters. Workshops are targeted at children aged three to 13 years old, and a single lesson costs from 500 rubles. “Our most popular lessons are ceramics and the potting wheel, the Children and Buildings...

..., performed in Russian and German. Helikon Opera production. Dom Muzyki Svetlanov Hall. 7 p.m. Gvidon: Alexander Manotskov’s opera based on Daniil Kharms’ dialogues with God and eternity. Directed by Alexander Ogaryov. School of Dramatic Art. 7 p.m. Iolanta: Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s lyric opera about a blind princess as staged by Gennady Shaposhnikov. Novaya Opera. 7 p.m. Iolanta: Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s lyric opera about a blind princess who is cured by the love of a man who violates...

... Shurshakov, with the help of cocktail designer Alexander Kan, has produced a limited-edition series of dishes, which looks back to the days when much of the population lived out of a tin. The menu, which chef Dmitry Shurshakov ambitiously calls "food art," has a selection of light meals, desserts and cocktails all created from tin-canned foods. "We wanted to experiment with Soviet cooking and make it contemporary," Shurshakov said in an interview over a meal at the restaurant. "The...

A play lost but not quite. A musical score quartered and plundered. Three great names in the Russian arts — Alexander Pushkin, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Tairov — who were to have come together under a single marquee in 1937 but never quite did. A play lost but not quite. A musical score quartered and plundered. Three great names in...

... company is currently leasing part of the space out and major tenants include private media outlets like Slon.ru, Openspace.ru, TV channel Dozhd and IT center Digital October. Due to the number of exhibition halls, the factory's territory has become an art space popular among Muscovites and tourists, but the developer's plans to upgrade the territory raised concerns among city residents that construction work could damage part of the complex and result in tenants being ousted. Muscovites started collecting...

... aristocracy" that should grow to about 10 million people by 2020, Putin said. He added that workers should get more professional training. As part of the strategy, the article proposed to develop national digital television channels covering culture, the arts, history and children's programming. Putin said the programs on national television have become "too commercialized," however, it would be "incorrect to suppress commercially oriented activity in this area." "In the end,...

... our video, many Russian citizens want Putin to get scared once again and for a long time,” Pussy Riot said. The group, which features from three to eight performers, sees itself as being “on the border between punk rock and contemporary art.” Pussy Riot officially formed in autumn 2011 when it played its first gig in the Otradnoye metro station, performing the song “Clear Up the Pavement.” Complete with footage from performances at other metro stations as well as on...