The Russian Academy Of ArtsThe Russian Academy Of Arts19.02.2010
The highest decoration of France will be presented to the President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli. The National Order of the Legion of Honor (Ordre national de la Legion d’honneur) was established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802 and is awarded by the President of France. In his letter dated February 1, 2010 the French President Nicolas Sarkozy has specially noted: “This authoritative decoration which I have considered it necessary to confer on you from my personal reserves of crosses is an expression of gratitude for your services to this country and proved devotion to France”.
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The program “Remembering Chekhov” to be held in the White Hall of the Russian Academy of Arts (21 Prechistenka street, Moscow) on February 19, 2010 is devoted to the 150th birth anniversary of the celebrated Russian short-story writer, dramatist and physician Anton Chekhov.
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The portrait of Gury Marchuk, the prominent Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics and physics of atmosphere, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986-1991 has been created by the People’s Artist of Russia Vasily Nesterenko. The handover ceremony at the building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences was attended by President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli and President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yury Osipov.
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On January 27, 2010 Zurab Tsereteli visited Stavropol to take part in the closing of his solo exhibition. The ceremony was attended by the Governor of the Stavropol Krai (federal subject of Russia) Valery Gaevsky, the Mayor of Stavropol Nikolai Paltsev.
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The Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts (17 University Embankment, St. Petersburg) invites you to take part in the research conference “Russia and France. Interaction of Cultures. XVIII – XXI Century” to be held in November 2010 as part of the program in honor of the Year of France in Russia and the Year of Russia in France.
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On January 15, in Tsereteli Art Gallery, 19 Prechistenka street, there was a round table on “Ethics-Aesthetics, Criticism – Clinic” curated by Evelina Shats. The focus of the discussions was a solo show of works by Fausta Squatriti entitled ECCE HOMO and organized by the Russian Academy of Arts, Italian Institute of Culture and the Brera Academy in Milan.
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To mark the 100th birth anniversary of the eminent diplomat and politician Andrei Gromyko, a memorial plaque designed by Zurab Tsereteli was unveiled on the wall of the house in Leontievsky Pereulok where he had lived from 1963 till 1989. Andrei Gromyko served as Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union from 1957 till 1985 and was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in 1985-1988.
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On December 22, 2009 in the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation the Just Russia fraction held a round table on the topic: The State Policy in the Field of Fine Arts. Legal Support. Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts specified main problems of preservation of the Russian system of Academic education and submitted proposals for its development.
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On December 15, 2009 the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts is holding a session commemorating Vasily Kandinsky, the world renowned Russian painter whose creative work has greatly influenced the development of world art. In the session timed to the artist’s 65th death anniversary will take part descendents of several branches and generations of the Kandinsky family tree.
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The Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Deputy Head of Architecture and Town-Planning Committee of Moscow, Chief Designer of Moscow Igor Voskresensky is a leading specialist in the aesthetic formation of the city environment and landscape architecture.
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Within the framework of the 5th International Festival of Children’s Artworks “ A Hundred Thousand Suns” Zurab Tsereteli has given a masterclass for its participants from 18 countries aged four to seventeen. Among them are physically challenged and orphan children.
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On November 24, 2009 the Moscow State Academy Art Lyceum, 8 Krymsky Val, will mark its 70th anniversary. It was set up in 1939 as the Moscow Secondary Art School. In 1951 the School became a division of the USSR Academy of Arts and in 1992 was reformed into the Moscow State Academy Art Museum.
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At the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts on November 24, from 11.30am till 2.30pm the American designer Sharon Sprung from the National Academy of Design, New York will give a masterclass within the framework of the International Research Seminar: Self-Portrait and Portrait of an Artist. 18-21 Century.
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The International Research Seminar: Self Portrait and Portrait of an Artist. 18-21 Century will be held at the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg on November 23-24, 2009 within the framework of a large-scale exhibition of the same name featuring both works from the Museum holdings and by St. Petersburg contemporary artists.
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On November 19, in the Moscow State Academy Art Lyceum there was a research and practical conference “Educational Goals of the Academic Art School in Modern World”. It was held within the framework of the program in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Lyceum. The conference participants shared their experience in teaching practice and discussed the challenges of modern art education.
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On November 18, the noted Japanese public figure, artist, art historian, collector and patron of art, Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Tadashi Goino visited the Russian Academy of Arts and met with its President Zurab Tsereteli.
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Organizers:
Russian Academy of Arts
Russian Academy of Sciences
31.10.2009
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Russian Academy of Arts present a Museum-Studio of Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, founder and Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
28.10.2009
In Honor of the 250-th Birth Anniversary of the Russian Architect Andrei Voronikhin (1759-1814)
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The President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli has recreated without indemnity the bronze doors of the mausoleum of the eminent Russian commander Prince Dmitry Pozharsky who set Moscow free from invaders in the Time of Troubles, as the Director General of the Suzdal Museum-Preserve Alisa Aksenova informed at the press-conference in Vladimir on October 22, 2009. She expressed her gratitude to the renowned sculptor for his noble action.
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