Russian billionaires are famous for being big buyers of contemporary art, bolstering sales in capitals across the West, but at home it's a different story. Russian billionaires are famous for being big buyers of contemporary art, bolstering sales in capitals across the West, but at home it's a different...

The largest collection of contemporary Japanese art ever displayed in Russia, a two-part exhibit called "Double Vision: Contemporary Art From Japan," is currently on display at two different Moscow venues. The largest collection of contemporary Japanese...

A religiously themed art exhibition organized in Krasnodar by a prominent patron of the arts has sparked a flurry of protest from activists and even a fake bomb threat, despite being supported by a senior Russian Orthodox Church...

... animators and graphic artists. It did not draw nearly the number of people that earlier protests have — I would guess that about 2,000 showed up — but size here isn't the point. The Artists' Walk, dubbed the mobile museum of contemporary art, provided some of the most amusing 90 minutes this city has enjoyed in some time. All those crazy artists with their crazy smiles and inspired, fruitcake exhibits — balloons trapped in a cage, a six-foot wooden fish, a motoring machine with...

... animators and graphic artists. It did not draw nearly the number of people as earlier protests have — I would guess that around 2,000 people showed up — but size here isn't the point. The Artists' Walk, dubbed the Mobile Museum of Contemporary Art, provided some of the most amusing 90 minutes this city has enjoyed in some time. All those crazy artists with their crazy smiles and inspired, fruitcake exhibits — balloons trapped in a cage, a six-foot wooden fish, a motoring machine with...

Portraits and belongings of famous female dancers, actresses and singers from Russian theater during the late 19th and early 20th centuries are on display at the State Museum of Theater and Music in a new exhibit titled "Beauties of the Russian Stage: Beauty Without Photoshop." ST. PETERSBURG — Portraits and belongings of famous female dancers, actresses and singers from Russian theater during the late 19th and...

... evening was a disaster waiting to happen. It was a perfect example of the inevitable occurring because the left hand doesn't know what the right hand and left foot are preparing to do. Here is the picture more or less as told to me by Yelena Tupyseva, art director at the popular Aktovy Zal space in Moscow, and one of the organizers of some of the day's theatrical events. The Moscow Culture Committee originally decreed that a full day of cultural events would be held on May 1 as part of May Day celebrations...

Jean Anouilh's “The Lark” famously looks at the burning of Joan of Arc at the stake through the prism of the 20th century. Check out Zhenya Berkovich’s new production on Thursday at the New Stage at the Moscow Art Theater. At 7 p.m. Thursday, May 24th New A Dusty Day (Pylny Den): Sasha Denisova directs her play subtitled “Six Morons in Search of Icy Freshness.” Playwright and Director Center. 8 p.m. New Aksyonov, Dovlatov, Duo (Aksyonov, Dovlatov...

... Competition are being shown at the Vetoshny Gallery, reflecting the most important world events of 2011 such as the Arab Spring and the Japanese earthquake. Temporary Exhibitions Permanent Displays 11.12 Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art: Morphology: sculptures and objects by Sergei Sobolev, to June 24. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 495-940-6471, www.11-12.ru Anna Golubkina Studio Museum: Zaraisk Angels...

... exhibition of Valentin Serov’s work closes this Sunday. The exhibition includes portraits, sketches and illustrations in charcoals, pastels and watercolors. Temporary Exhibitions Permanent Displays 11.12 Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art: MT Pick Litoral: metaphysical paintings by Vladimir Semensky, to Sun. New Morphology: sculptures and objects by Sergei Sobolev, Wed. to June 24. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed...

... Otnosheniya): Semyon Strugachyov stages a musical comedy based on a play by Jean de Letraz. Mayakovsky Theater. 7 p.m. Fairies (Fei): Ronan Cheneau’s play about contemporary society as staged by David Bovee with young Russian actors. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater New Stage. 7 p.m. Heat (Zhara): Natalya Moshina’s play about a group of romantic terrorists as staged by Vladimir Ageyev. Praktika. 7 and 9 p.m. New La Grande Magia (Velikaya Magiya): Yevgeny Pisarev directs and stars in Eduardo de...

Rem Koolhaas, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, presented his plans to convert an abandoned Moscow restaurant into a new art space for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, founded by Dasha Zhukova. LONDON — Rem Koolhaas, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, presented his plans to convert an abandoned Moscow restaurant into a new art space for...

... a model for photo festivals and portfolio reviews around the world since its inception in 1983, have been working with Russian curators and photographers for many years. Recently, they joined forces with Dasha Zhukova, who has promoted contemporary art in Russia through her Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and Iris Foundation. Together, FotoFest and the Iris Foundation seek to further develop Russia's art photography and a wider audience for it. "To bring all the best of the world to...

... necessarily know. But he had a face, an expression, a warmth and an enthusiasm that no one who ever encountered him will forget. And most people who know Moscow theater had encountered Yury Gorsky. Gorsky came to Anatoly Vasilyev's School of Dramatic Art approximately 20 years ago. He took over as the head administrator and remained in that position until his death May 1 in a car accident. He was on his way home from the airport in a taxi. He was, to my best ability to calculate, 58, perhaps 59, years...

An exhibit of Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei currently on at the Multimedia Art Museum provides an intimate, and sometimes uncomfortably close, look at the artist's time in America through a series of black and whites, taken from a collection of more than 10,000 photographs....

... piano on a cart. The event came after several prominent writers on May 13 led a crowd of more than 10,000 people on a stroll designed to be a peaceful opposition demonstration. But the artists' stroll — dubbed the Nomadic Museum of Contemporary Art — was planned as a less politically focused event and coincided with the annual Night at the Museum, when the city's museums and galleries work late. Organizers estimated that the art show, whose works included many made by children and teenagers...

... Sokole. 8:30 p.m. Galina Bosaya with a solo vocal program. China Town Cafe. 9 p.m. Jazz in Motion: A’Capella ExpreSSS. Durov. 8 p.m. Kravts: hip-hop. Shestnadtsat Tonn. 9 p.m. Light the Night: indie, grunge, rock. Bilingua. 8 p.m. Marimba Plus: art fusion. Kitaisky Lyotchik Dzhao Da. 9 p.m. Megapolis: indie soft rock. B2. 9 p.m. Meidelekh: art folk. ArteFAQ. 9 p.m. Molodiye Lyudi, Rivushchiye Struny and Asian Women on the Telephone: punk, rock, psychedelic. Dom. 8 p.m. Polina Kasyanova and Moscow...

... organizers say they hope to provide event-goers with an enjoyable and accessible cultural experience. Events are divided into districts in which they will take place, as well as categories of interest, including science, technology, history, classical art, modern art, decorative art, literature, music and theater. In short, event planners say, there is something for everyone. The event's website offers a map and a list of events, as well as information about four extra bus routes planned especially...

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... to form a "pandrogynous" entity with his/her now-late wife. Sixty-two-year-old industrial-rock and electronica pioneer P-Orridge, who was born Neil Megson, claims to have had problems with the British authorities because of his/her radical art and declared a self-imposed exile to California in the early 1990s. In 2009, the now-Brooklyn-based P-Orridge announced his/her retirement from touring in "any and all bands" to concentrate on art, writing and music, but lately seems to...