| Word from editor |
Dear readers!
The world is extraordinarily diverse and captivating. In every issue we try to write about something that resonates, if not with everyone, then with a great many people. We choose a main theme and explore it as fully as possible. This time round we are focusing on contemporary art. >> |
| Personalities |
“Joseph and his... Moscow Biennales”
Joseph Bakstein is an art historian, critic, curator and the Commissioner of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. He has curated over 30 contemporary art exhibitions in Russia, Europe and the USA. >> |
Sophia Trotsenko:
“The venture’s success is down to active people”
In recent times the Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre has become a fashionable hot spot, and not just because the idea of transforming industrial buildings into exhibition halls has proved to be ingenious and savvy. The nineteenth-century “Moscow Bavaria” beer factory site in the vicinity of Kursk Railway Station has been saved from demolition by its present owners, Roman and Sofia Trotsenko, who have invested over five million US dollars in the project.
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The imaginarium of Jude Law
Conan Doyle’s hero, Sherlock Holmes’s assistant Dr. Watson, has long since been associated in the minds of people of the former USSR with open-faced and fair-haired Vitali Solomin. So, the start of the new film season may become something of an ordeal for them – Hollywood is aiming to sweep the board with a new film release about the adventures of the London sleuth starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.
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In search of Sarah Bernhardt
“My name is Sarah Bernhardt. I look in the mirror and see it’s difficult to determine my positon in the usual way. Nobody knows me. My real name has long since been forgotten. Wait a moment, keep quiet a little longer, and I’ll give you everything: lovers, dates, portraits, plays – I’ll gift you my whole life... |
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Pulp fiction
To mark our magazine’s anniversary we’ve decided to risk our necks, and right now (wait for it!), this minute hold a seance to expose the black magic world of glossy magazines. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we really mean it. Even though we have only been around for six years while the world of the glossies has existed for about 100. |
The fatal liqueur of poets
Oscar Wilde likened the pleasure gained from absinthe to that of contemplating the sunset. In French, “absinthe” means “herb of oblivion” or simply “wormwood”. And this bitter wormwood with the Latin name Artemisia absinthium gave its name to the enigmatic liqueur that in the early twentieth century drove geniuses, dissipated bohemians, sedate bourgeois gentlemen and brave servicemen insane. |
Maxim says
Max Pokrovsky, one of Russia’s best-known rock musicians, bass guitarist, vocalist and songwriter with numerous hits to his name, is now in charge of our music page. His recommendations and views on music today appearing regularly in our magazine.
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| Around the World |
City Profile: Florence
Florence is the birthplace of the Renaissance, an outdoor museum, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and an incomparable treasure trove of unique works of art. Florence was Europe’s first art capital: its museums and streets overflow with paintings, frescos and sculptures. |
Iceland: a planet forged by fire and ice
All of us were children once. Amidst the boundless snowy expanses of the Arctic Circle the image of the majestic Snow Queen’s ice palace springs to mind. And yet, so unreal and otherworldly is the landscape all around that it’s more like science fiction than a children’s fairy tale: soaring craggy mountains covered with snow and ice with lava-riven fields carved between them. |
| Culture |
Orel Art UK – Gallery of Contemporary Art
Last April the well-known Phillips de Pury & Company auction house acquired a “perfect neighbour” – Orel Art gallery which immediately put itself on the map with the impressive show “Liquid Modernity”, introducing the British public to the work of Andrei Molodkin, one of the artists representing Russia at this year’s Venice Biennale. |
Into the looking glass of design
Would you like to see a fig-leaf wardrobe, a ship bath or a skull-shaped room? Furniture, lighting and ceramics seemingly straight out of Lewis Carroll’s “Into the Looking Glass” are on display at the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the exhibition “Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design”. |
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