The fifth annual festival of Russian Films has opened in the French capital on Wednesday. During the festival week, residents of Paris will get a chance to see the classics of Soviet cinema, alongside Russia`s latest productions.
Another masterpiece of Italian Renaissance, painting by Sandro Botticelli " Pallas and Centaur" is coming to please the eyes of Muscovites. Starting from May 14, the great master`s painting will be displayed at the State Pushkin Museum.
Another masterpiece of Italian Renaissance, painting by Sandro Botticelli " Pallas and Centaur" is coming to please the eyes of Muscovites. Starting from May 14, the great master`s painting will be displayed at the State Pushkin Museum.
Advertising posters are everywhere these days. We are stalked by the world`s biggest corporations and smallest companies to consume their products and attend events. But advertising dates a long way back, to when creating ad posters was an art.
Russia`s giant Mosfilm, one of the largest and oldest film studios in Europe, has teamed up with Google to launch a channel on YouTube, where Mosfilm will be showcasing its feature films free of charge.
British rockers Genesis are to play in Moscow for the very first time. They will be joined by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in what promises to be a spectacular show.
Nothing sounds better than Sergey Rachmaninov to the British people. A poll with over 180,000 respondents has revealed that Rachmaninov`s Concerto No 2 for piano with orchestra is Britain`s favorite work of classical music, The Daily Telegraph reports.
The 10th Easter Festival, held annually in Moscow by the Mariinsky Theater and its unparalleled artistic director, Valery Gergiev, has opened in the capital on Sunday.
The World Figure Skating Championships will open in Moscow on Monday April 25. Despite the fact only one month was available for preparations, Moscow has managed to get ready for the top level competition.
Russia has become the fifth most-profitable market for Hollywood productions. That is according to one of the leading Russian film producers, businessman Aleksandr Rodnyansky.
A large-scale exhibition dedicated to the revolutionary Soviet filmmaker, the creator of Man With a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, is underway in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
A former Miss World and one of Bollywood`s leading actresses, Aishwarya Rai, is set to appear in the first Bollywood movie ever to be shot in the Arctic Circle.
Since the times of Bruce Lee, many martial arts champs have made it to the big screen, but one recent debut just can`t go unnoticed.
An arresting children`s portrait, Les Enfants, by the versatile Russian artist Boris Grigoriev, strongly influenced by Paul Cézanne, has gone under the hammer for over one million dollars at Christie`s art sale in New York.
A short feature with a ridiculously low budget made by a film student from the Russian Far East will be screened at the French Riviera during the big-league International Cannes Film Festival in May.
Some unusual items are due to go under the hammer at this spring`s Sotheby`s Russian auction in New York.
From Raphael to William Blake, from Caravaggio to Klimt, a cutting-edge Japanese artist, Kimiko Yoshida, will show off her unconventional outlook at some of the greatest painters of all time with art aficionados at the RuArts gallery in Moscow.
One of the brightest Russian designers, Konstantin Gayday, will show off his creations on the final day of Volvo Fashion Week on April 4.
The man behind "Wanted", Russian filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov, will produce a zombie movie.
This spring in Moscow is becoming a hard time for fashionistas. Two competing fashion weeks - Volvo Fashion Week in Moscow and Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Russia - are taking place simultaneously, and both offer quite a lot to see.
Haute couturiers from around the world have started showcasing their latest collections at the next, 25th anniversary, Volvo Fashion Week in Moscow. Celebrated Russian fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin opened the event with his catwalk show.
An exhibition "Fiction and Reality" in Spanish contemporary art is now on display at Moscow`s Museum of Modern Art. The collection from the Patio Herreriano Museum came to the Russian capital as part the initiatives for the Year of Spain in Russia.
Russian cultural activists continue to hold charitable events in support of Japan. The State Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra under maestro Mark Gorenstein will give a concert in memory of the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
Color, fantasy, and the magic of human transformations. A display of the best Cirque Du Soleil costumes has opened in Moscow offering to meet those inspiring characters from the famous Canadian circus Company all over again.
The Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theater, maestro Valery Gergiev, is planning to give a series of charity concerts in support of Japanese people who have suffered from the earthquake and tsunami.