... world, made up of those who put their names on walls and trains and those not content with just that. "[Many] think that Moscow is very avant-garde because the tagging is 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...

... Photography at Krasny Oktyabr: Photography and Neo Realism in Italy 1945-65, to Feb. 26. Located at 3 Bolotnaya Naberezhnaya, Bldg. 1. M. Polyanka. Tues. to Fri. 2 to 9 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 795-1755, www.lumiere.ru Central House of Artists: New Grey Monitors (Seriye Ekrany): a multimedia installation by Valentin Korzhov, to Feb. 25. Located at 10 Krymsky Val. M. Park Kultury, Oktyabrskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., closed Mon. 8-499-238-9634/1245, www.cha.ru Classical...

... 26. New The Magic World of Altai (Volshebny Mir Altaya): photographs, to Wed. Located at 3 Bolotnaya Naberezhnaya, Bldg. 1. M. Polyanka. Tues. to Fri. 2 to 9 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 795-1755, www.lumiere.ru Central House of Artists: Grey Monitors (Seriye Ekrany): a multimedia installation by Valentin Korzhov, to Feb. 25. Located at 10 Krymsky Val. M. Park Kultury, Oktyabrskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., closed Mon. 8-499-238-9634/1245, www.cha.ru Christ the...

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 William Blake, the poet and artist famed for his florid imagination and unconventional views...

... up their weariness with Putin as he intends to extend his 12 years in power in March: "You're just like me, a man not a god. I'm just like you, a man not a sod." The former paratroopers' song is just one of the many musical, literary and artistic creations that have inspired and enlivened a protest movement that is still largely the reserve of erudite, urban Russians. Mikhail Vistitsky, a 45-year-old veteran of the elite force, wrote the lyrics after attending one of the first big anti-Putin...

... overwhelming in the theater's entire history. Flanking the sides are enormous baroque colonnades, the rear of the stage is covered by the scene of a palace with a harbor on either side that might have come directly from the brush of the 17th-century French artist known as Claude Lorrain, and the stage floor is decorated with a pattern that seems to echo those created in modern times by Italian designer Gianni Versace. Though quite stunning at first glace, it eventually seemed to me more than a little overdone...

... recognize the city. The play of light, beautiful architecture, even old and quite rundown buildings look authentic and inspiring, evoking a feeling of romance and not unpleasant melancholia. A background for the photographs has been provided by the young artist Yelena Kovalyova, whose graphic ink-painted works frame the images. "We hope it will become another push to immerse the audience in the atmosphere of height, rooftops and contemplation," Strelnikov said. There are many aspects of St...

Pro-democracy protests in Russia are being organized by writers, journalists, artists and other cultural figures. There are few businesspeople among them who understand the concept of risk-adjusted returns. Pro-democracy protests in Russia are being organized by writers, journalists, artists and other cultural...

Whatever the Taganka Theater will look like from now on, it will not be what we are accustomed to. The break between the theater's founder Yury Lyubimov and his troupe last summer — leading to Lyubimov's resignation as artistic director — sent the playhouse off on a whole new trajectory. Whatever the Taganka Theater will look like from now on, it will not be what we are accustomed to. The break between the theater's founder Yury Lyubimov and his troupe...

... Stray Dog, once the haunt of Silver Age writers such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Anna Akhmatova, is celebrating its centenary with a series of cultural events. Opened on the cusp of 1911 and 1912, the Stray Dog cafe became Russia's first literary and artistic night cellar. The story goes that writer Alexei Tolstoi gave the cellar its name as he and others looked for a cultural refuge in the city, saying "Why are we running around like stray dogs?" And the name stuck. The cafe's location...

... Located in Sokolniki Park, Moroz City (Frost city) claims to be the first-ever snow city in Russia. The architectural feat required 500 blocks of ice, 1,000 blocks of snow and more than 100 architects, sculptors, artists and volunteers from all over Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Serbia, Belarus and Finland. With winter having finally arrived, a new city has sprung up within Moscow, made entirely of ice and snow. Located in Sokolniki Park, Moroz City...

... version of the opera, staged by Martha Domingo in 2000. Domingo broke no new ground, yet managed to create a most enchanting staging — a co-production with the Washington Opera and the Los Angeles Opera, where her husband served at the time as artistic director — with only some slight touches of the occult, making for fine opera entertainment with no excessive mystification and more of an illustrative twist, rather than a philosophical approach. The scenery — designed by Giovanni...

... for example, only the diploma I received before my MBA will count as my higher education," he said. "Is this bad? Probably not. A master's degree rarely gives you an advantage abroad when seeking a residence permit, employment, etc." Artistic Freedom Taking the government's claws out of business education is a big plus, said Yelena Beshkinskaya, vice president of the private business school Mirbis. "Effective MBA programs should be outstanding and authoritative, and strict state...

Michel Hazanavicius’ acclaimed black-and-white silent comedy “The Artist” is up for 10 Academy Awards. Catch it at Pyat Zvyozd-Novokuznetskaya. Be warned, the movie house is not sure which language the caption-cards are in. A Dangerous Method (Opasny Metod, 2011): David Cronenberg’s drama involves the...

... calmer. It’s like the Neva River — powerful, huge, broad — but it flows calmly. Q: Is it still correct to call St. Petersburg the cultural capital of Russia? A: I think it’s still true today because, despite lots of financial and artistic difficulties in recent years, new theaters are opening and old ones are being renovated. In the past year or so, the youth theater on Fontanka has been renovated and the Buff Theater got a completely new building. The Mikhailovsky Theater, which...

... be televised by Russia 24 on Monday at 6 p.m. Mikhalkov was registered as an official backer of Putin on Feb. 6, along with soccer player Andrei Arshavin, singer Nadezhda Babkina, musician Yury Bashmet and several hundred other famous sportsmen and artists. The film director has already called for Russian citizens to vote for Putin through his video blog. After Putin announced last month that he may send proxies to represent him in presidential debates, Prokhorov said he would refuse to debate a...

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... fraud. "If a ray of sunlight falls at a certain angle on the semitransparent ballot box when it still has few ballot papers, we see a very rare optical phenomenon, very beautiful," Churov said, according to Interfax. "You can get an artistic shot." Several media organizations, including state television's Channel One and NTV , posted videos of the class, which was held in the hall of the Central Elections Commission. Apart from photography, Churov is keen on history, military...

... of her unexpected death, The Associated Press reported. "We cherish the memory," Arkady Dvorkovich, an economic aide to President Dmitry Medvedev, wrote about Houston on his Twitter feed Sunday. Houston was one of the world's best-selling artists from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. Her fame with Russian audiences came in 1992, after she played the leading part in the international hit film "The Bodyguard." She had planned to come to Russia in the early 2000s for a series of...

...,” project coordinator Maria Yemelyanova said. Entrance to the hands-on museum 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...