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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On the evening of 27 May 2012 in London, MacDougall’s will offer an exceptional painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. Still Life. Apples and Eggs, estimated at £2,000,000-3,000,000, is one of the most typical and recognisable of Petrov-Vodkin’s works of the early 1920s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oil paintings by Petrov-Vodkin exceedingly rarely appear on the market and few works of such significance as Still Life. Apples and Eggs remain in private hands. The work was previously in the collection of Grigory Blokh, before it was acquired by Abram Chudnovsky, another famous collector from Leningrad. Chudnovksy, a well-known physicist, started collecting art immediately after Stalin’s death in 1953, and by the 1960s had amassed one of the most important collections of early 20th century Russian avant-garde paintings, including works by artists such as Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich and Pavel Kuznetsov. Petrov-Vodkin’s Still Life. Apples and Eggs was among the highlights of the collection. Widely exhibited after Chudnovsky’s death in 1985, the work is now offered at auction for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Petrov-Vodkin painted Still Life. Apples and Eggs in Samarkand during the summer of 1921, when he took part in an official expedition to establish the condition of architectural and historical sites in Turkestan. His four months in Samarkand were particularly fruitful and he returned with an important body of work including landscapes, portraits and still lifes. He was later to publish a book on his experiences in Central Asia, illustrated with his own drawings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Petrov-Vodkin’s still lifes are not only among the best works in the artist’s oeuvre, but are also among the most important Russian paintings of the period following the Revolution of 1917. In these works, the artist painstakingly analysed every facet of the objects he painted, often depicting them from an elevated viewpoint. This “spherical perspective”, based on a unique philosophical system developed by the artist, bestows Petrov-Vodkin’s seemingly simple still lifes with monumental significance. Comprising modest objects which reflect the austerity of the period, Petrov-Vodkin’s still lifes are full of tension, but simultaneously extremely delicate and rich in colour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The appearance on the market of Still Life. Apples and Eggs presents a rare opportunity for collectors to acquire a museum-quality work by Petrov-Vodkin. The painting will be offered alongside other masterpieces of 19th and 20th century Russian art at the Important Russian Art sale on Sunday 27 May. On 30 May, MacDougall’s will present Russian paintings, icons and works of art, as well as a collection of works by the theatre designer Dimitri Bouchène. The total pre-sale estimate for all sales exceeds £25m. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Friday 25 May, 10:30–18:00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Saturday 26 May, 10:30–18:00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sunday 27 May, 10:30–14:00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Monday 28 May, 10:30–18:00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tuesday 29 May, 10:30–18:00</span><br />
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<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-70940051385971555652012-05-22T02:43:00.001-07:002012-05-22T02:43:30.420-07:0040 YEARS OF RUSSIAN ART SALES AT CHRISTIE’S<br />
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auction of <i>Russian Art</i> to take place
on 28 May 2012 in London, and marking 40 years of Russian Art Sales at
Christie’s. The auction will offe<a href="" name="_GoBack"></a>r a rich selection of
paintings and decorative works of art, the majority of which have been
consigned from private sources, and will include masterpieces from many of the
major movements in the development of Russian Art including Classic 19</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">th</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;">
Century Art, the Ecole de Paris, the Ballets Russes and the Avant-Garde. Highlighted by over forty works of art by
Fabergé and rare silverwork, the sale will also feature an impressive selection
of Russian works of art, many of which are distinguished by their important
Imperial provenance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sale is led by <b>Zinaida Serebriakova’s</b>
(1884-1967) sensational <i>Reclining nude</i>
(£800,000-1,200,0000) which was painted in 1930 following the artist’s
emigration to paris. Born into an erudite and artistic family, her father was the
sculptor Evgeny Lanceray and her uncle on her mother’s side was the painter
Alexandre Benois. Serebriakova’s work, and in particular her nudes, is
distinguished by an alluring combination of warm femininity and technical
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executed in Paris, <b>Alexandre Iacovleff’s</b>
(1887-1938) exquisite 1922 sanguine of the famed nude of Russia’s Silver Age,
Salomé Andronikova (1888-1982 / estimate £150,000-200,000) is appearing at
auction for the first time. The beautiful and intelligent Andronikova was a source
of tremendous inspiration to painters such as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin and Vasilii
Shukhaev and for the poets Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelshtam. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the wake of their highly successful tour to Moscow for the Christie’s exhibition
at Mouravieff-Apostol Mansion, attended by over 4000 people, the sale on 28 May
presents <b>Ivan Aivazovsky’s</b>
(1817-1900) romantic seascape <i>Searching
for survivors</i> and emotive <i>Ox cart
crossing a flooded plain</i> (estimates: £250,000-350,000 and
£400,000-800,000), in addition to <b>Petr Konchalovsky’s</b>
(1876-1956) 1910 masterpiece, <i>Spanish
landscape</i>. Konchalovsky’s vibrant depiction of Spanish terrain, which
appears on the market for the first time, was first presented to the public at
the iconic inaugural Jack of Diamonds exhibition that same year and provides
the opportunity to acquire not only a master work by the artist but furthermore
an important piece of Russian Art history (estimate: £600,000-800,000).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(1886-1957) <i>Demon</i>, in which the
artist’s veneration for Mikhail Vrubel’s creative genius is palpable, also
appears on the market for the first time (estimate: £300,000-500,000). Painted
in 1916, this striking work was exhibited at the state Tretyakov Gallery in
2007. Executed the same year, <b>Léon
Bakst’s</b> (1866-1924) passion for the Orient expresses itself in a comparable
riot of colour in <i>The Yellow Sultana</i>,
one of the finest examples of this supremely talented artist’s work to appear
on the market in recent history (estimate: £350,000-450,000).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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ever, Christie’s Russian sale is characterized by the high quality of works on
offer from a broad variety of movements and periods. The offering of superb
paintings of Russian traditional 19<sup>th</sup> century art is led by <b>Orest Kiprensky’s</b> (1778-1836) <i>Portrait of Prince Mikhail Alexandrovitch
Galizine</i> (1804-1860), which was painted in 1833 in Rome and is an extremely
rare and important rediscovery of a portrait known only from literature
(estimate: £200,000-300,000).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Christie’s
sale offers a range of truly exceptional Russian works of art from
distinguished private collections, most of which have never before appeared at
auction. The sale is led by a newly discovered Imperial Presentation snuff-box
with the cypher of Emperor Nicholas II that was commissioned from the Imperial
court jeweler, Hahn between 1899 and 1904. During the reign of Nicholas II,
only 280 Russian subjects and 90 foreign dignitaries received Imperial Presentation
snuff-boxes with the Emperor's jewelled cypher. Of these, only 59 were produced
by the court supplier Hahn. According to family tradition, the present Imperial
snuff-box descended from a Persian religious dignitary during the Qajar Dynasty
(1785-1925). The emphasis that Russia placed on diplomatic relations with
Persia throughout the years preceding World War I led to the presentation of a
variety of opulent gifts. The Shah of Persia, Muzaffar al-Din, paid two state
visits to Russia in 1900 and 1902. The Shah travelled with a vast entourage and
the cabinet prepared a commensurately large quantity of gifts, including two
diamond-set Imperial snuff-boxes by Hahn, to award during his visit in 1900
(estimate: £150,000-£250,000).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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May sale is also highlighted by a Fabergé two-colour gold and silver-mounted
guilloché enamel desk clock, that is being offered from a distinguished
Parisian private collection for the first time in decades (estimate:
£80,000-£120,000, illustrated left). This distinctively enamelled clock
dates to Fabergé’s later production and is an excellent example of the firm’s
increasingly modern design, where all ornament is pared down to simple stripes
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sale also offers two exceptionally rare kovshi, never before seen at auction.
One is a very early silver kovsh, dating from the 17th century which has been
part of a private collection since the 1930s (estimate: £30,000-£50,000,
illustrated right). According to the inscription, this kovsh was presented to
Ivan Nezhdanovskii by the ‘Great Sovereigns’ for his service as the head of
customs collection in Yaroslavl between 1689 and 1690. Based on the inventory
number, the second kovsh was made in 1900 and serves as an early example of
neo-Russian design and Fabergé's innovative approach, using new materials
(estimate: £15,000-£20,000). Fabergé started working closely with the Imperial
Stroganov School in 1900, when the workshop won a gold medal at the Paris
exhibition for its famous experimental ceramics. Luster-glazed earthenware
vases and kovshi, like the present lot, are among the workshop's most prominent
pieces and exemplify the collaborative work of the Imperial Stroganov School,
under the direction of Georgy Monakhov, and Fabergé's Moscow branch.<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Complete catalogue available online at <a href="http://www.christies.com/">www.christies.com</a> or via the Christie’s iPhone app</span></span></div>
<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-26350391153357371112012-05-17T02:59:00.002-07:002012-05-17T02:59:47.205-07:00STUDY DAY: Russian and Soviet Art: From Icons to Socialist Realism, May 19<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Royal West of England Academy, Bristol</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Spring / Summer Term 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">The Royal West of England Academy delivers a programme of one day Art History Day Schools delivered by recognised tutors and Academics providing an introduction to a number of subjects.</span></span></div>
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<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-56126018278380448502012-05-17T01:33:00.002-07:002012-05-20T13:29:37.763-07:00SUMMER INTERNSHIP WITH RUSSIAN ART AND CULTURE<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Would you like to work for a leading arts blog? We are the world's most popular website specialising in Russian art and culture. We are currently looking for a bright, motivated and resourceful student or recent graduate who would like to gain some work experience working in the world of art and online publishing based in our London office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The role will be to assist the editor as Russian art and culture transitions from a blog to a professional website. Our readership is in 12 countries and we have over 20,000 page views on the site. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We believe in being good mentors. When you start, the first thing we’ll do is discuss what you want to get out of the internship. We want this to be valuable work experience for you to build your CV and to teach you real skills that any employer will want. In return, we expect our interns to be individuals who will work hard to get the most out of this unique opportunity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We are looking for a candidate with strong analytical and research skills. The candidate must be self-motivated and have a “can do” attitude as they will be often working autonomously. The candidate must be computer literate and have a comfortable telephone manner as well as first hand experience working with social media. This is a fantastic opportunity for any young person as it offers them invaluable experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Research</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Researching upcoming news and creating calendar of events eg. exhibitions, conferences, lectures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Building our database of clients and donors</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Researching resources for Russian Art and Culture subscribers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Assisting with preparations for Russian Art Week in November</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Assisting in the development of the new website</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Helping develop PR campaigns for the company</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maintaining the on-line media strategy using Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIN with an aim to increase the company’s profile</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Writing posts for the blog (there will be an opportunity to have articles published on the site)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An interest in Russian art and/or knowledge of Slavic culture would be beneficial. The website is in English but Russian speakers are also encouraged to apply. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>What you would get:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gain valuable work experience </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Access to our extensive network </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chance to work on your own projects with real responsibility</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Opportunity to develop your employability skills to increase your chances of getting a job</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are two opportunities available:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. <b>Short term internship </b>(2 weeks)- 23rd July-3rd August</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. <b>Part-time internship </b>(2 months)- August/September</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For our longer internship programme we are interested in taking on a student (PhD preferred) who can commit to coming in for at least 3 days a week, starting in mid-August but dates are flexible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Location:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The internship will take place at our office in Victoria but there will be the opportunity to do occasionally work from home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To apply please send your CV to:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Theodora Clarke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Editor, Russian Art and Culture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">theodora@theodoraclarke.com</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://russianartandculture.blogspot.co.uk/</span>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-87204426355210725272012-05-16T09:25:00.000-07:002012-05-16T09:25:59.228-07:00Moscow International Book Fair, 5-10 Sept 2012<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMME</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Moscow International Book Fair is now the largest and most representative forum for the rapidly expanding Russian publishing industry. Russia is now the fourth biggest producer of books in the world in terms of published titles. MIBF is an event of truly international significance, featuring participants from more than 60 countries, and attracting more than 2000 participating organisations – publishers, distributors, libraries, universities and cultural centres.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MIBF INTERNATIONAL CENTRE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The MIBF International Centre is designed to make your visit to the MIBF comfortable and effective. The International Centre helps international publishers to explore business opportunities in Russia, establish contacts, find partners, develop collaborative projects with Russian publishers, and meet leading Russian authors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The International Centre’s extensive programme offers a diverse range of presentations and discussions with leading international experts on key issues related to Russian and international publishing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The MIBF International Centre is divided into 4 sections: book a table at the International Rights Centre or present your publishing projects in the Presentation Theatre, join professional discussions and workshops in the Studio and arrange meetings with translators in the Translators’ Lounge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">VISIT MIBF</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joining us at the Moscow International Book Fair is not only a great way to explore the vibrant Russian book market, but also a great opportunity to visit one of the world’s most fascinating cities and experience Russia’s unique culture and traditions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Academia Rossica would be delighted to help you with your visa and travel arrangements as well as the organisation of your cultural programme in Moscow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For more information and contact:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">moscow@academia-rossica.org</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">+44 207 287 261476</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> <a href="http://academia-rossica.org/index.php?id=3426">http://academia-rossica.org/index.php?id=3426</a></span>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-17563157938798932832012-05-15T02:00:00.000-07:002012-05-15T02:00:00.802-07:00EXH: Chagall: Modern Master at Tate Liverpool 2013<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Chagall: Modern Master</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tate Liverpool: Exhibition</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">7 June – 29 September 2013</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Marc Chagall (1887–1985) is one of the great artists of the last century. Bringing together more than sixty paintings and a selection of works on paper from across the world, Chagall: Modern Master takes a fresh look at this compelling artist who created some of the most poetic and enduring images of the twentieth century. This exhibition will be the first major presentation of the Russian painter’s work in the UK for more than fifteen years. </span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> The exhibition will explore Chagall’s development from the ‘naïve’ folkloristic narratives in his early work, towards his unique style combining fauve, cubist, expressionist and suprematist influences while reflecting his native Jewish Russian culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Chagall: Modern Master will focus on the artist’s time in Paris before the First world War, his visit to Berlin and his exhibition there in 1914, and the years he spent in his native Russia around the time of the Revolution in 1917. Chagall’s experiences during this period reinforced his highly personal visual language. The universal, timeless themes of these early works – including love, suffering and death – alongside self-portraits and depictions of the circus, music and peasants, recurred and formed the core of his art for the remainder of his long career.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Chagall: Modern Master is organised by Kunsthaus Zürich (8 February – 12 May 2013) in collaboration with Tate Liverpool.</span><br />
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<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-41472504071499741622012-05-14T02:00:00.000-07:002012-05-14T02:00:03.070-07:00June Preview: Ukrainian Museum, NY<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">JUNE PREVIEW AT THE UKRAINIAN MUSEUM, NEW YORK CITY</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Concert: Friday, June 1, 7 p.m. </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bandura Downtown closes its 2011-2012 season with a performance by artistic director Julian Kytasty showcasing his latest solo work and introducing a series of surprise guests. Join us in celebrating six full seasons of Bandura Downtown performances at The Ukrainian Museum!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lecture: Sunday, June 3, 2 p.m. </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"The Carpet Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Preservation and Display" will be the topic of Dr. Florica Zaharia's lecture, presented in conjunction with the Museum's exhibition Ukrainian Kilims: Journey of a Heritage. Dr. Zaharia is the Conservator in Charge of the Met's Department of Textile Conservation.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Annual Meeting: Sunday, June 24, 2 p.m. </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">All members are urged to attend the Museum's annual meeting. Meeting notices will be mailed out shortly, but please mark your calendars and plan to join us for this important annual event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Ukrainian Kilims: Journey of a Heritage</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Through October 21</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">More than 35 kilims from the Museum's permanent collection, some dating back to the 18th century, are on view in this exhibition. Many of the tapestry-like rugs were spirited out of Ukraine and transported across numerous borders by Ukrainian refugees fleeing war and the destructive Soviet occupation of Ukraine. Cherished and preserved for years after their arduous journey, the kilims were eventually entrusted to the Museum's care. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Featured in the January 27 issue of The New York Times ("Antiques on Camera and Behind Every Door / Ukrainian Weavings," page C31).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">COMING SOON</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A Singular Vision: Ilona Sochynsky, Retrospective of Painting </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">May 13 through October 7</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Ukrainian Museum: 35 Years in Print </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Through October 21</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Since 1976, the Museum has been mounting exhibitions that educate and enthrall visitors while introducing them to the broad spectrum of Ukrainian art and culture. Drop by this exhibit to marvel at the range of subjects covered over the past 35 years, as seen through the exhibition catalogues, posters, and other documents that accompanied the Museum's exhibitions.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Borys Kosarev: Modernist Kharkiv, 1915-1931 </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">LAST CHANCE! Closes May 2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Virtually unknown even in his native land, the avant-garde artist Borys Kosarev (1897-1994), a survivor of Stalin's purges in 1930s Ukraine, was a painter, designer, photographer, and illustrator who worked with some of the pre-eminent creative personalities of his time. This first-ever exhibition of 82 of his works brings to light Kosarev's prodigious talent and his deep attachment to Kharkiv, the city of his birth, death, and long life. The contents of the exhibition coincide with Kharkiv's time as the capital of Ukraine (1919-1934), the rise of Constructivism, and the period of Ukrainianization, which brought with it a brief renaissance of art and culture before being brutally quashed through a series of purges and long-term repression. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Profiled on NYC-ARTS, PBS Channels 13 and 21 in New York, February 23-26.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th Street, New York, NY 10003</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">T: 212.228.0110 · F: 212.228.1947</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">info@ukrainianmuseum.org · www.ukrainianmuseum.org</span><br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-20183823068839288912012-05-11T03:27:00.000-07:002012-05-11T03:27:37.424-07:00Mother Russia: Classical Music Series at Tricycle, London<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Tricycle Theatre, London</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Classical Music Series 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Artistic Director: Tamsin Waley-Cohen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with the Honeymead Ensemble</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">‘Warm, focused, joyous… a marvellous chamber series’ The Sunday Times</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sunday 20 May, 7pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mother Russia</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Leading the Classical Music Series into the summer months The Honeymead Ensemble perform two of the great Russian string quartets. Arensky’s ‘Cello’ Quartet No. 2 in A minor was written in memory of Tchaikovsky and is deeply rooted in Russian folk, this gem of Russian Romanticism has a uniquely rich and dark sound. Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 3 in E-Flat minor was written in memory of his great friend, the violinist Ferdinand Laub. Symphonic in scope, and filled with moments of intense grief and longing, this work is considered the great Russian Romantic quartet.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.tricycle.co.uk/current-programme-pages/theatre/theatre-programme-main/classical-music-series-2012/"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.tricycle.co.uk/current-programme-pages/theatre/theatre-programme-main/classical-music-series-2012/</span></a>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-56899240657806111882012-05-11T02:00:00.000-07:002012-05-11T03:28:19.624-07:00LSO: Summer Stravinsky Festival with Valery Gergiev<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2VZOKVr_IXRaaD0FSKmjpv9ukfj1hQcz6HXe35vF04Aopx7Izxzp8t28TZ5VTs4RtyFAkLUK1IFJYK0oQBcdeQI4DJkZb0r7ln2x3rH_Y5opHrhFFYlIVeH6dZXWacZNJ1Mr5Jd4rIG2C/s1600/stravinsky_festival_720_290_0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2VZOKVr_IXRaaD0FSKmjpv9ukfj1hQcz6HXe35vF04Aopx7Izxzp8t28TZ5VTs4RtyFAkLUK1IFJYK0oQBcdeQI4DJkZb0r7ln2x3rH_Y5opHrhFFYlIVeH6dZXWacZNJ1Mr5Jd4rIG2C/s320/stravinsky_festival_720_290_0.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One of the undeniable highlights of the LSO’s 2011/12 season is right around the corner – a festival of five concerts, spread across three venues (the Barbican, LSO St Luke’s and Trafalgar Square), celebrating the many faces of composer Igor Stravinsky and led by one of the most powerful champions of Russian music today, LSO Principal Conductor Valery Gergiev. With repertoire ranging from the iconic Firebird and Rite of Spring to the hidden curiosities of Stravinsky's jazz miniatures, appearances from guests including Greek virtuoso violinist Leonidas Kavakos and actor Simon Callow, and the chance to choose your setting, this all-encompassing series promises something for everyone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stravinsky is frequently cast against contemporaries Shostakovich and Prokofiev as an example of a somehow less inherently Russian creator: born in St Petersburg, his 60-year career saw him settle in Switzerland, France and finally the US, where he lived until his death in 1971. His music is, on the surface, similarly cosmopolitan. The early ballets for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes – The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring – and the Russian fairytale-based Renard plus The Soldier’s Tale form a loose ‘Russian’ period; Oedipus Rex and the Violin Concerto are part of his ‘neo-classical’ period which saw a return to the form, order and balance of the late 18th century, and reached an apex whilst the composer was in Paris. Then there is a body of serial works which developed post-1945, once Stravinsky had become a US citizen. But Gergiev insists that Stravinsky’s ‘Russianness’ did not simply cease to be when he left for the West, aged 28...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">> Watch Valery Gergiev discuss Stravinsky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/21922333">http://vimeo.com/21922333</a>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">> LSO mini documentary about The Rite of Spring</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dIq_sF1agI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dIq_sF1agI</a>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Choral splendour & solo violin frolics</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fri 11 May 7.30pm Barbican</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mass | Violin Concerto in D | The Firebird – complete ballet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with Leonidas Kavakos violin & London Symphony Chorus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Free concert: Stravinsky live in Trafalgar Square</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sat 12 May 6.30pm Trafalgar Square</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fireworks | The Firebird – suite | The Rite of Spring</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with Paul Rissmann presenter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Folk tales from Russia</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sun 13 May 7.30pm Barbican</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Renard | The Soldier's Tale</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">with Simon Callow narrator & LSO Chamber Ensemble</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">PLUS 'Backstage Pass': free pre-concert talk for young people and their families:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The music that rocked the 20th century & neo-classical tragedy </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tue 15 May 7.30pm Barbican</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Rite of Spring | Oedipus Rex</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.lso.co.uk/page/3688/Summer-Stravinsky-Festival-with-Valery-Gergiev"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.lso.co.uk/page/3688/Summer-Stravinsky-Festival-with-Valery-Gergiev</span></a>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-49581863768536369652012-05-10T02:00:00.000-07:002012-05-10T02:00:01.725-07:00FILM: Sokurov’s award-winning Faust released 11 May<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2011, Faust completes Sokurov’s loose tetralogy on the lives of historical figures, which began with studies of Adolf Hitler (Moloch, 1999), Vladimir Lenin (Taurus, 2000) and Emperor Hirohito (The Sun, 2005). His new film delves deeper into the nature of power with a unique take on Goethe’s classic tale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">From one of Russia’s greatest filmmakers comes a unique interpretation of Goethe’s classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the Devil. A coda to the director’s fictional profiles of three tyrants (Hitler in Moloch, Stalin in Taurus and Hirohito in The Sun), Sokurov’s latest film explores mankind’s propensity for corruption in the face of power and sexual gratification. And as with all the director’s films, the result is a work of ravishing beauty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Available on Curzon on Demand 11 May.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.curzoncinemas.com/films/details/1193/faust-sokurov/</span><br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-87505624522950964852012-05-09T07:29:00.001-07:002012-05-09T07:29:34.683-07:00CONF: Gartenkultur in Russland (Hannover, 9-11 May 12)<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">CONF: Gartenkultur in Russland (Hannover, 9 - 11 May 12)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hannover, 09. - 11.05.2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Internationales Symposium "Gartenkultur in Russland"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Veranstalter: Dr. Anna Ananieva (Universität Tübingen / JGU Mainz),</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Prof. Dr. rer. hort. habil. Gert Gröning (CGL Leibniz Universität</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hannover / Universität der Künste Berlin) und Dr. Alexandra Veselova</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(Institut für Russische Literatur der Russischen Akademie für</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wissenschaften St. Petersburg) für das Zentrum für Gartenkunst und</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL), Leibniz Universität Hannover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Das Symposium widmet sich der Gartenkultur in Russland und bietet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">erstmals ein fächerübergreifendes Forum für deutsch-russischen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wissenschaftlichen Austausch zu dieser Thematik. Die Veranstaltung will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">aktuelle Forschungen einzelner Disziplinen wie Architektur- und</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kunstgeschichte, Garten-, Literatur-, Theater-, Musikwissenschaften</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">sowie Ethnografie bündeln und die bisherige sowie zukünftige Reichweite</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">des interdisziplinären Zugriffs auf die Gartenkultur in Russland</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">ausloten.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Inhaltlich fokussiert die Veranstaltung auf die Themen „Der Garten und</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">seine Lebenswelten“, „Der Garten und andere Künste“ und „Der Garten und</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">seine Personen“. Im ersten Schwerpunkt geht es um repräsentative</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">höfische Gartenkultur, Gärten der russischen Landgüter und die Datscha</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">als Phänomen im russischen Alltag sowie um urbane Freizeitanlagen aus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">der sowjetischen Zeit. Der zweite Schwerpunkt setzt sich mit den</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Landgütern als Orten der Sehnsucht und der Flucht auseinander. Dabei</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">wird nicht nur nach der Konstituierung eines Mythos in der Literatur</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">gefragt, sondern auch die Ikonografie der Gärten in der Buchkunst, der</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">bildenden Kunst und der Architektur der Moderne reflektiert. Hinzu</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">kommt die Untersuchung der Rolle des Theaters auf den adligen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Landgütern. Schließlich werden hier auch die Bedeutung der Musik in den</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Parkanlagen und Gärten der Landsitze sowie die künstlerische Wiedergabe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">der Gärten auf Porzellan angesprochen. Im dritten Schwerpunkt stehen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">die Gutsbesitzer, Schriftsteller, Maler, Musiker, Gartenarchitekten und</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Politiker als Akteure der Gartenkultur im Mittelpunkt. Die spezifischen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Themen in diesem Kontext haben Gärten und russische Folklore, die neue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gartenästhetik in der russischen Provinz, die Popularisierung der</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gartenkultur durch Poetisieren und Bauen sowie die Gärten der Literaten</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">zum Gegenstand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Das Symposium findet im Rahmen der Russland-Wochen an deutschen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hochschulen 2012 anlässlich des Deutsch-Russischen Jahres der Bildung,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wissenschaft und Innovation 2011/2012 statt und wird von dem</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) und von der Stiftung</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) gefördert.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Arbeitssprachen des Symposiums sind Deutsch und Russisch mit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Synchronübersetzung.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Programm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mittwoch, 09.05.2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ort: Leibnizhaus, Holzmarkt 4-6, 30159 Hannover, Leibnizsaal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">9.00-9.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Begrüßung der Tagungsteilnehmer: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">(Vorstandsvorsitzender des CGL)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Grußwort des Präsidenten der Leibniz Universität Hannover, Erich Barke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">9.15-9.45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Einführung in die Tagung</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gert Gröning (CGL / Universität der Künste Berlin)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Alexandra Veselova (Institut für russische Literatur der Russischen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Akademie der Wissenschaften, St. Petersburg)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anna Ananieva (Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Tübingen /</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Institut für Kunstgeschichte, JGU Mainz)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. Garten und seine Lebenswelten</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Anna Ananieva</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">10.30-11.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Valeria Kolosova (St. Peterburg, Institut für Linguistik der Russischen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Akademie der Wissenschaften)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Darstellungen der Gärten und Symbolik der Gartenblumen in russischen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Volksliedern vor dem Hintergrund der slavischen Folklore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">11.15-11.45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Marcus Köhler (Hochschule Neubrandenburg)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Der Garten als ‚Geburtsort’ des russischen Nationalstils</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Joachim Schnitter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">11.45-12.30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ekaterina Dmitrieva (Moskau, Institut für Weltliteratur der Russischen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Akademie der Wissenschaften)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Das russische Landgut als Mythentopos und Ursprung für Mythen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">12.30-13.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sigrid Thielking (CGL / Leibniz Universität Hannover)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gartenkultur, Muße und Hospitalität: Vom russischen Landhaussommer als</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">literarischer Lebensform</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Alexandra Veselova</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">15.00-15.45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Andrej Rejman (St. Peterburg, Staatliche Denkmalschutzbehörde)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Die Gärten des Anichkov Palais im 18. bis 19. Jahrhundert: Vom Garten</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">des kaiserlichen Landhauses von Elizaveta Petrovna bis hin zum Palast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">der Jungen Künste</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">15.45-16.30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Katharina Kucher (Universität Tübingen)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Der Prototyp des sozialistischen Gartens: Der Moskauer Gorki-Park</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1928-1941</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Anna Ananieva</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">17.00-17.45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Boris Sokolov (Moskau, Russische Staatliche Geisteswissenschaftliche</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Universität)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gärten des „Silbernen Zeitalters“: Artifizielles Leben und</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">künstlerisches Umfeld</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">19:30 – 20:30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Musikalisches Rahmenprogramm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">„Von Wien nach St. Petersburg. Violinsonaten von Haydn, Mozart und Titz“</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ulla Bundies – Violine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Assen Boyadjiev – Hammerklavier</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Klaus Harer (Deutsches Kulturforum Östliches Europa Potsdam)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ort: Kreuzkirche (Kreuzkirchhof 1, 30159 Hannover)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Eintritt: 10 Euro, erm. 5 Euro</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Donnerstag, 10.05.2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ort: Senatssitzungssaal, Hauptgebäude der Leibniz Universität Hannover,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Raum F 335</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. Garten und andere Künste</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Marcus Köhler</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">09.30-10.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Alexandra Ippolitova (Moskau, Staatliches Zentrum der russischen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Folklore)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Landschaftsdarstellungen in Kräuterbüchern (Herbarien) am Ende des 18.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Jahrhunderts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">10.15-11.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gert Gröning (CGL / UdK Berlin)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kireevskij im Himmel. Schablykino, eine bemerkenswerte Parkanlage aus</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">dem frühen 19. Jahrhundert im Gouvernement Orel</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Sigrid Thielking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">11.30-12.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Klara Šarafadina (St. Petersburg, Staatliche Universität für</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Technologie und Design)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gartenbauprojekte und imaginäre Gärten der Romanfiguren in der</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">russischen klassischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">12.15-13.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Joachim Schnitter (CGL / Hamburg)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">„letters from terra“ Gärten als Kristallisationspunkte von Zeit und</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Verlust bei Anton Tschechov und Vladimir Nabokov</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Susanne Fontaine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">15.00-15.45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Christoph Flamm (UdK Berlin)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Musik in den Gärten der Petersburger Sommerresidenzen im 18. Jahrhundert</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">15.45-16.30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Olga Kupcova (Moskau, Staatliche Lomonosov Universität / Russische</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Staatliche Gerasimov Universität)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Theater-Spiele in Garten- und Parklandschaften der russischen Landsitze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">um 1800 - Eine Typologie</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">17.00-17.45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Irina Pašinskaja (GMZ Peterhof)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Festliche Illuminationen im Unteren Garten von Peterhof in der ersten</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Freitag, 11.05.2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ort: Senatssitzungssaal, Hauptgebäude der Leibniz Universität Hannover,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Raum F 335</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3. Der Garten und seine Personen: Wahrnehmung, Beschreibung, Deutung</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Anna Ananieva</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">09.30-10.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Alexandra Veselova (St. Petersburg, Institut für russische Literatur</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Zur Herausbildung von gartenkünstlerischer Begrifflichkeit in Russland</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">um 1800</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">10.15-11.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Margrethe Floryan (Kopenhagen, Thorvaldsens Museum)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hortikulturelle Lehrstücke: Zur Hirschfeld-Rezeption in Russland</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Moderation: Gert Gröning</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">11.30-12.15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Maria Našokina (Moskau, Forschungsinstitut für Theorie und Praxis der</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Architektur und des Städtebaus)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Gartenprojekte von Georg Kuphaldt im Kontext der russischen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Landsitzarchitektur des „Silbernen Zeitalters“</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">12.15-13.00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stanislav Savickij (Institut der freien Künste, Staatliche Universität</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">St. Petersburg)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Der Garten der Reflexion: Lidija Ginzburg und der Park Petrodvorec</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">13.00-14.30</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Andreas Schönle (London, Queen Mary University)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Die Modernität der Gärten: Das politische Ringen und die Identität der</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Elite</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Die Teilnahme an dem Symposium ist kostenfrei. Wegen der</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">eingeschränkten Raumverhältnisse wird es um eine Anmeldung bei der</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Geschäftsstelle des CGL gebeten:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dr. Sabine Albersmeier</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Zentrum für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Leibniz Universität Hannover</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Herrenhäuser Straße 8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">30 419 Hannover</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fon +49 (0) 511/762-5789</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Fax +49 (0) 511/762-5693</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mail cgl@uni-hannover.de</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Weitere Informationen zum Symposium, das zweisprachige,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.cgl.uni-hannover.de/de/tagungen/gartenkultur/index.php</span><br />
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<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-22631914280441369932012-05-09T07:26:00.000-07:002012-05-09T07:26:57.566-07:00EXH: Mysteries of Chukotka at MacDougalls<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Mysteries of Chukotka</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An exhibition of photographs by Ida Ruchina</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In benefit of the Red Cross Chukotka Health Centre</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Viewing Days: 8-13 May, Tuesday-Friday 10:00-17:00</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Evening Reception: Thursday 10 May, 19:00-21:00</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This virtually untouched corner of the earth would still be recognised by the first Russian settlers, who came to Chukotka half a milennium ago. In summer, the vast space of the unforgiving tundra is filled with a dazzling variety of mosses, lichens and arctic plants. In winter, it has hundreds of shades of snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ida Ruchina's spectacular photographs allow a rare glimpse at this little-explored region of outstanding natural beauty, its hardy inhabitants and their unique culture and traditions. Love and a true interest in people nurture her art. The photographs will be on sale in benefit of the Red Cross Chukotka Health Centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Important Russian Art: Sun 27 May, 17:00 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Russian Art, Icons and Works of Art: Wed 30 May, 10:30 & 14:00</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Dimitri Bouchene Collection: Wed 30 May, 16:00</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">MacDougall Arts Ltd </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">30A Charles II St, London, SW1Y 4AE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tel +44-20-7389-8160 </span><br />
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<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-64401694720300860252012-05-09T07:09:00.002-07:002012-05-09T07:09:33.744-07:00FILM "TSAR": Kinoklub in Edinburgh<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kinoklub in Edinburgh</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">TSAR / ЦАРЬ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tuesday 22 May, 6pm </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Filmhouse cinema, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">KinoKlub is expanding! Academia Rossica have joined forces with Edinburgh University's Princess Dashkova Centre and the Filmhouse cinema to bring regular screenings of Russian films to Edinburgh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">KinoKlub's first Scottish screening will be multi-award winning director Pavel Lungin's historical drama TSAR, telling the violent but fascinating story of the moral conflict between Ivan the Terrible and the Metropolitan Filipp.Russia in the 1560s is in the grip of chaos. Ivan the Terrible believes he’s on a holy mission and that his orders come straight from God. He demands absolute power over his people and will destroy anyone who opposes him. In an attempt to keep a close leash on things, Ivan appoints old friend and scholar, Filipp, to be the head of the Orthodox Church. Filipp’s honesty places him at odds with Ivan, as he dares to question his authority, going so far as to ask the Tsar to renounce his policies of terror: public executions, torture, and land confiscation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">At the centre of Tsar is the clash between two powerful men, an ideal acting vehicle for two of Russia’s seminal actors, Pyotr Mamonov as Tsar Ivan and Oleg Yankovsky as Filipp. This was Yankovsky’s 71st and final film role; he died in May 2009.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tsar does not purport to be a historical overview of Ivan’s reign, but focuses instead on internal struggles closer to the throne – issues of duty, friendship, loyalty, power, paranoia, fanaticism, and madness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">LATE ADDITION The screening will be introduced by Dr Andrei Rogatchevski, Russian Programme Director at the University of Glasgow, who will also lead a short discussion after the screening on issues raised by the film.</span><br />
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<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-77713947855548615812012-05-09T06:43:00.001-07:002012-05-09T06:43:33.687-07:00EXH: Valery Yurlov at the Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Valery Yurlov at the Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Exhibition “In the Search of an Absolute: Art of Valery Yurlov” from April 4 to November 4, 2012 at The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This exhibition continues a series of one-man shows devoted to early nonconformist artists. The art of Valery Yurlov (born 1932) stands out as one of the earliest examples of geometric analytical abstraction within Soviet nonconformist art. Yurlov never was a member of any art movements or groups, and stayed beyond the confines of politics, not once yielding to the temptation of using ideology in his art. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="line-height: 16px;" /><span style="line-height: 16px;">Yurlov’s creativity developed in direct communion with his teachers, the artists Vladimir Favorsky and Petr Miturich, and his long-term friend, the philosopher and theoretician Victor Shklovsky. All of them carried within themselves the ideology and traditions of the avant-garde of the 1920s. In Yurlov’s work this tradition manifested itself in the search for an absolute, for an expressive visual sign, built in accordance with universal principles of construction of a visual form. Throughout his artistic career, Yurlov combined this principle with the latest developments and theories in contemporary art, such as neo-constructivism, structuralism, impermanence, and performance art.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cold Summer of 1953 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Kino Kino</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">USSR | 1987 | 101 min | colour | </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Cast Valery Priyemykhov, Anatoly Papanov, Victor Stepanov, Nina Usatova.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A group of escaped criminals hides out in the remote wooded area of Siberia in this grim drama set in the summer of 1953. Although Stalin is already dead, the shadow of his oppressive rule still hangs over the country. The gang makes their way to a small village where political prisoners Luzga (Valery Priyemykhov) and Kopalich (Anatoly Papanov) wait to escape by boat. Luzga is a former Army scout who can barely hide his contempt of Stalin, while Kopalich is a noted archaeologist. When the village is attacked by the marauding gang, the two political prisoners help defend the townsfolk against the bloodthirsty mob.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The last feature for the popular actor Anatoly Papanov, “Kholodnoye Leto Pyatdesyat Tretyego” was seen by over 40 million people in the Soviet Union, making it the third most popular feature of 1988. This is one of the first perestroika films that showed political prisoners in a sympathetic light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Winner of Nika, a Russian “Oscar” in the best feature film category.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events/cold-summer-of-1953"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events/cold-summer-of-1953</span></a>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-2463075335275375822012-05-08T03:07:00.000-07:002012-05-08T03:07:31.715-07:00Swan Lake On Ice at Royal Albert Hall, 18-20 May<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Swan Lake On Ice at the Royal Albert Hall</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">18 - 20 May 2012 - The Royal Albert Hall</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Imperial Ice Stars, the international ice dance sensation, make a triumphant return to the Royal Albert Hall with a dynamic new staging of their award-winning masterpiece, Swan Lake on Ice, following their acclaimed performance of Cinderella on Ice in 2010.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The 32 World, European and National Championship skaters, who between them hold more than 250 competition medals, take contemporary ice dance to a new level with their awe-inspiring and agile feats, some of which are so complex they haven’t yet been named.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Leading ice choreographer Tony Mercer combines daring high-speed leaps, throws and lifts with the most graceful and sublime ice dancing, performed on a specially-created frozen stage. With Tchaikovsky’s glorious and memorable music performed by a live orchestra, this innovative portrayal of the classic love story and the triumph of good over evil will take your breath away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This never-seen-before performance, specially adapted for the magnificent setting of the Royal Albert Hall, will feature sumptuous costumes, stunning projection, and magical special effects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Over the last eight years, The Imperial Ice Stars have built up a worldwide following and established an unrivalled reputation for their sophisticated interpretations of classic works, receiving nightly standing ovations and outstanding reviews from Sydney to Singapore and Cape Town to Tokyo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This adrenaline-rich Swan Lake on Ice will bring you to the very edge of your seat...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To find out more and book tickets, please visit the Royal Albert Hall's website </span><br />
<a href="http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/swan-lake-on-ice/default.aspx"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/swan-lake-on-ice/default.aspx</span></a>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-87157179665189651042012-05-03T04:26:00.000-07:002012-05-03T04:26:47.570-07:00Lecture, video screening & debate: Art and Political Activism in Russia Today<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thu 10 May 2012 – 6.00pm</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Art and Political Activism in Russia Today: Art in The Absence of Civil Institutions </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">TEN CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN ART: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY LECTURE SERIES</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events/?c=TEN-CENTURIES-OF-RUSSIAN-ART-IN-SEARCH-OF-IDENTITY" target="_blank">VIEW THE WHOLE LECTURE SERIES</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Lecture, video screening and debate.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In the chair: Dmitry Vilensky, artist, writer, and founding member of Chto Delat? (What is to be done?), a collective publication of artists, critics, philosophers and writers which gathers political theory, art and activism (St. Petersburg)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Over the last decade, a number of artists have succeeded in both realising and finding the theoretical grounding for a variety of works, which allows us to speak of a new situation in art. These projects have found points of connection between art, new technologies, and the global movement against neo-liberal capitalism. The lineages of this interest in political art can be traced back to Documenta 10 (1997) and coincides with the emergence of the “movement of movements”, which erupted onto the political horizon in Seattle in 1999 – an event which, it can be argued, has crystallised a new political subject (named the Multitude by Hardt and Negri’s Empire published in 2000) and have its new embodiment in recent occupation movement that spread in many countries.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This situation has subsequently been manifested through a variety of cultural projects whose critical stance towards the process of capitalist globalisation and emphasis on the principles of self-organisation, self-publishing and collectivity has evoked the idea of a return to “the political” in art. The lecture will focus on the analyzis of how this international process were represented in Russian art and activism during last decade where they have to operate under the hostile conditions, direct repression and exclusion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Screening of videoworks will be included.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS COLLEGE ART AND DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS OF LONDON, GRANARY BUILDING, 1 GRANARY SQUARE, LONDON N1C 4AA</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events/art-and-political-activism-in-russia-today-art-in-the-absence-of-civil-institutions"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events/art-and-political-activism-in-russia-today-art-in-the-absence-of-civil-institutions</span></a><br />
<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-32898212287594134502012-05-03T04:11:00.001-07:002012-05-03T04:11:23.099-07:00National Theatre Platform: Orlando Figes & Stalin's Soviet Union<br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Orlando Figes with Alex Jennings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">June 7th 2012, 6pm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">In Just Send Me Word, the historian recounts the true love story of two young Muscovites, whose smuggled letters to one another form a detailed and agonizing account of life in Stalin’s Soviet Union.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guests reading extracts from the book include Alex Jennings. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This event is followed by a booksigning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tickets £4 (£3 concessions)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Running time: 45mins</span><br />
<a href="http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=69413"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=69413</span></a>
<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-83112895882227938062012-05-01T03:01:00.001-07:002012-05-01T03:01:38.242-07:00Malevich Society Call for Grant Proposals<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Malevich Society Call for Grant Proposals</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Application deadline: Sep 30, 2012</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The Malevich Society is pleased to announce its grant competition for </span><span style="background-color: white;">the year 2012.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The Malevich Society is a not-for-profit organization based in New York </span><span style="background-color: white;">City dedicated to advancing knowledge about the Russian artist Kazimir </span><span style="background-color: white;">Malevich and his work.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">In the belief that Malevich was a pioneer of modern art, and should be </span><span style="background-color: white;">recognized for his key contributions to the history of Modernism, the </span><span style="background-color: white;">Society awards grants to encourage research, writing, and other </span><span style="background-color: white;">activities relating to his history and memory.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The Society welcomes applications from scholars of any nationality, and </span><span style="background-color: white;">at various stages of their career. Graduate students are welcome to </span><span style="background-color: white;">apply to the Society’s grants after completing at least one year of </span><span style="background-color: white;">dissertation research. Proposed projects should increase the </span><span style="background-color: white;">understanding of Malevich and his work, or augment historical, </span><span style="background-color: white;">biographical, or artistic information about Malevich and/or his </span><span style="background-color: white;">artistic legacy. The Society also supports translations and the </span><span style="background-color: white;">publication of relevant texts.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Application forms and instructions may be requested by telephone at </span><a href="tel:1-718-980-1805" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">1-718-980-1805</a><span style="background-color: white;">, by e-mail at i</span><a href="mailto:info@malevichsociety.org" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">nfo@malevichsociety.org</a><span style="background-color: white;">, or may be </span><span style="background-color: white;">downloaded from the web-site: </span><a href="http://www.malevichsociety.org/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">www.malevichsociety.org</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Deadline: September 30, 2012</span></span>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-8948599418471934982012-05-01T03:01:00.000-07:002012-05-01T03:01:13.905-07:00CFP: Demons in Russian Icons, AATSEEL, Boston 2013<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Boston, Massachusetts, USA, January 3 - 06, 2013</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Deadline: Jul 1, 2012</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Proposed panel on demons in Russian art for AATSEEL 2013. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The panel will be chaired by Sally Pratt.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">For the panel I am proposing to give a paper on the representation of </span><span style="background-color: white;">demons focusing mainly on 17th c. Russian icons and illustrated </span><span style="background-color: white;">manuscripts. Since icons are meant to make the invisible world visible, </span><span style="background-color: white;">they help to shed light on contemporary interpretations of concepts </span><span style="background-color: white;">such as evil.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Focus on provenance of a particular demon type is of interest as well </span><span style="background-color: white;">as such topics as to the type of evil being represented with a </span><span style="background-color: white;">particular subset of features such as color, etc</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">For further information please contact me at</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><a href="mailto:rsmith@museumofrussianicons.org" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">rsmith@museumofrussianicons.org</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">—Prof. Raoul Smith</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Museum of Russian Icons</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Clinton, MA 01510</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-77472920743225921072012-04-30T03:58:00.000-07:002012-04-30T03:58:39.632-07:00TALK: "I am the prisoner of friendship", Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, 3 May<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Time: Thursday 3 May 2012, 5:15pm</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Venue: Conference Room (Ground Floor), The Princess Dashkova Russian </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Centre, 14 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Talk by Dr Michelle Lamarche Marrese (University of Münster):</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I AM THE PRISONER OF FRIENDSHIP... (Ekaterina Dashkova)</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The talk explores the role of female friendship in the life of </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Princess Dashkova within the wider European and American context of </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">the significance of affective ties among women in the late eighteenth </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">and early nineteenth centuries. It seeks to explain the relative </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">absence of --romantic-- friendship among Russian noblewomen, in </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">contrast to their European contemporaries, and why Dashkova deviated </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">from the pattern of her Russian counterparts. It also examines the </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">limits of female patronage networks during the era of female rule, </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">which historians have depicted as an era of women?s predominance at </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">court, and whether Dashkova proved the exception to this rule.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Michelle Lamarche Marrese is the author of A Woman s Kingdom: </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Noblewomen and the Control of Property in Russia, 1700-1861 and </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">numerous articles on gender and Russian noble culture. She has taught </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">at the University of Delaware, the University of Toronto, Northwestern </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">University, and the University of Münster (Germany), and is the </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">recipient of numerous fellowships, including grants from the National </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Foundation. She is </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">currently working on a biography of Princess E.R. Dashkova and a </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">social and political history of noblewomen at the Russian court, </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">titled Queen of Spades: Princess Dashkova and the Politics of Gender </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">in the Era of Female Rule.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-42097440121757884942012-04-30T03:57:00.000-07:002012-04-30T03:57:28.251-07:00Globe Theatre: ''Measure for Measure' in Russian, 2012 Intl Shakespeare Festival<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Measure for Measure</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Appearing as part of the Globe Theatre's Globe to Globe season and the 2012 International Shakespeare Festival, the Vakhtangov Theatre presents a Russian language production of Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Duke departs from his kingdom suddenly and mysteriously. In his place his deputy Angelo begins a vigorous campaign against the city’s morals. Claudio, arrested and sentenced to death for making his lover pregnant, hopes his virtuous sister Isabella can persuade Angelo to save him. But when Angelo demands a higher price than Isabella is prepared to pay, it becomes evident that not only love but justice is at risk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Vakhtangov, on the Arbat, is at the heart of Moscow both geographically and theatrically. From humble beginnings in 1913, this company, which began in basements and front rooms, grew to inhabit one of Moscow’s most beautiful theatres. Always following the twin influences of Meyerhold and Stanislavsky, of spectacle and psychological truth, it has created many of Russia’s most respected productions. This is their first visit to the UK. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For more information and to book tickets please visit the Globe’s website.</span><br />
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<br />Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-91738473262941966962012-04-30T03:56:00.000-07:002012-04-30T03:56:45.076-07:00CONCERT: St Petersburg Blagovest Ensemble<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tue 8 May 2012 – 7.30pm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">St Petersburg Blagovest Ensemble</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Language: In Russian</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The St Petersburg Blagovest Ensemble is bringing part of a rich Russian musical tradition to Pushkin House this May.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Their programme contrasts sublime, intensely spiritual Russian Orthodox church music with the zest for life and humour of Russian folk song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Ensemble contributes to a renewal of a tradition of Russian unaccompanied singing going back a thousand years, which with its distinctive melodic patterns holds a unique place in the musical culture of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The singers are trained in the St Petersburg Conservatoire and their five voices fill any auditorium. On previous UK tours they have enchanted audiences with echoing harmonies that appealed to a range of ages and musical tastes. This year they are bringing their music to many places in the UK that have not experienced it before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tickets: £12, conc. £10</span><br />
<a href="http://www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events/st-petersburg-blagovest-ensemble"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events/st-petersburg-blagovest-ensemble</span></a>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7290685557176003596.post-51985225625662683892012-04-27T03:36:00.002-07:002012-04-27T03:36:44.173-07:00JOB: Museum Program Asst, Museum of Russian Art, MN<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) in Minneapolis, the only museum of its kind in North America, is seeking a Program Assistant to support senior level staff with administrative and curatorial duties. This is a full-time, entry-level position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">POSITION DESCRIPTION</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Program Assistant will also support the Director of the Museum with day to day communications, including phone calls, emails, and correspondence with the Museum’s Board of Trustees. Other administrative duties include making travel arrangements for staff or visiting professionals, managing outgoing mail, ordering supplies, and other tasks as assigned. Will assist accounting department in reconciling expenses with budgets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Program Assistant will also support the Curator of the Museum with the management of the permanent collection, and in the development and implementation of the Museum’s exhibitions. Exhibition tasks include cataloguing, maintaining files, keeping track of loan requests and agreements, creating and updating object lists, as well as assisting with the preparation and proofreading of printed and online publications, catalogs, visitor guides, gallery introductions, wall texts, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is an excellent entry-level opportunity to gain experience in many aspects of museum operations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">QUALIFICATIONS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Bachelor's degree. Preferably in art history, cultural studies, museum studies, art education, or related humanities discipline.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Experience in editing/proofreading for publication.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Excellent communication, writing, research, and organizational skills.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Knowledge of Apple’s iWork suite of office software.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Knowledge of Russian culture, history, and language a plus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Start date</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">June 4, 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Application deadline</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">April 27, 2012</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Education requirements</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4-year degree</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Please submit a cover letter and resume by Friday, April 27, 2012 to Misha Dashevsky at mdashevsky@tmora.org. No phone calls, please.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">View the full listing here.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.idealist.org/view/job/WN9WPGHsZc2D/"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">http://www.idealist.org/view/job/WN9WPGHsZc2D/</span></a>Theodora Clarkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16127891996713315673noreply@blogger.com0