The Russian Academy Of ArtsThe Russian Academy Of Arts10.10.2008
On October 10, 2008 in the White Hall of the Russian Academy of Arts, 21 Prechistenka street, on the initiative of Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, will be inaugurated a new International Seminar: Spatial Icons. The Textual and Performative to be held within the framework of EIDOS Research, Educational and Innovation Program.
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On October 1, 2008 at the age of 108 passed away Boris Efimov, Hero of Socialist Labor (1990), People’s Artist of the USSR (1967), Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1975), winner of three State Prizes (1950, 1951, 1972), Laureate of the Moscow City Hall prize “Legend of the Century” (2003).
29.09.2008
The Album-Catalogue of the 17th – 20th Century Paintings and Drawings from the collection and funds of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts has been published in honor of its 250th anniversary in a series “Treasures of Russian Art” by the White City publishing house. The book edited by Veronika Bogdan contains 126 illustrations representing paintings and drawings by Russian and European masters that are the highlights of the Museum’s collection.
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On September 24, 2008 Mukhadin Kishev, People’s Artist of Kabardin-Balkaria, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Member of the European Academy of Arts presented his latest canvas devoted to the 300th anniversary of the victory of the Kabardians over the Crimean troops in the Battle at the Mount Kanzhal.
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On September 24, 2008 with the blessing of Alexi II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and Ignatius IV, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, the 3m tall sculpture of Christ the Savior will be presented as a gift from Russian people to the monastery of St. Thecla in Maaloula, the most important Christian site in Syria. The bronze sculpture has been designed by Alexander Rukavishnikov, People’s Artist of Russia, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
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According to RIA Novosti reports, on September 23, 2008 the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin approved the staff of the Coordination Council for the 2008-2012 Program of Fundamental Researches of the state academies of sciences.
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On September 17, 2008 at the award ceremony in the White Hall of the Russian Academy of Arts, 21 Prechistenka street, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov were presented with attributes of an Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
In his greeting speech, Zurab Tsereteli expressed his regret, that the high honor was awarded to the celebrated artists with such a delay.
15.09.2008
On September 15, 2008 in Moscow was inaugurated Marpho-Mariinskaya Cloister. On September 16, Alexi II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia consecrated Pokrovski Cathedral, principle church of the Convent which is going to mark its centenary in 2009.
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On September 12-13, 2008 the city of Vologda hosted an All-Russian Research Conference on Modern Russian Folk Art: Traditions and Today organized by Vologda Region Government, Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts and Artists’ Union of Russia.
08.09.2008
On September 11, 2008 at the Bayonne’s September 11 memorial designed by Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Artist of Russia, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador will be held a ceremony commemorating the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
03.09.2008
On September 3, 2008 the bronze monument to Sergei Korolev, founder of Russian space program was set up as a centerpiece of the renovated Alley of Spacemen at VDNH subway station in Moscow. It has been designed by Salavat Scherbakov and Sergei Scherbakov in association with members of Korolev’s family and his friends.
28.08.2008
The bronze bust of the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Natalya Bekhtereva (1924-2008) will be dedicated on the Glory Alley of St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions on September 1, 2008. The sculpture, designed by People’s Artist of Russia Grigori Yastrebenetski, will find its home next to busts of Dmitri Likhachev, Michael Anikushin, Andrei Petrov, Natalya Dudinskaya and other distinguished people.
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Irina L. Buseva-Davydova
Culture and Arts in the Time of Turnabouts: Russia in the 17th Century
Moscow: Indrik, 2008. 364 pages, illust.
13.08.2008
The monument to the celebrated circus athlete Alexander Zass will find its home in front of the Orenburg circus where he started out as a circus actor one hundred years ago. The monument designed by Alexander Rukavishnikov, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, has been delivered to Orenburg to be inaugurated on the verge of the City Day on September1, 2008.
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16.07.2008
On July 16, 2008 in Gallery Exhibition Center Izhevsk, capital of Udmurtia, will be held a meeting with Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, People’s Artist of USSR and Russian Federation, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
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On July 14, 2008 Zurab Tsereteli, President of the Russian Academy of Arts had a meeting with Paul Kulikovski, great-grandson of grand duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sibling of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II. Paul Kulikovski is an economist and financier. He lives in Denmark, where Olga Romanova resided till the end of her life. The meeting has been also attended by Elena Ryurikova, director-general of a Charity Foundation set up in Moscow in 2006 by Dmitri Romanov, great great-grandson of the Russian Emperor Nicholas I. He is a president of the Foundation.
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On July 7, 2008 Andrei Bartenev, the celebrated designer and curator of many extravagant art projects will be a model at a monthly masterclass by Zurab Tsereteli in Tsereteli Art Gallery, 19 Prechistenka street, Moscow. The performance has been arranged within the framework of the 1st Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 01 July 2008 – 30 July 2008.
23.06.2008
On June 23, 2008 in Tsereteli Art Gallery, 19 Prechistenka street, was held a presentation of degree works by graduates of the Architecture Department of V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute. The topic of the defense was an elaboration of a pilot project for the international youth tourist city-satellite GAGARINGRAD with a memorial complex on the site where the first spaceman Yuri Gagarin landed. It is planned to be located near the city of Engels, Saratov Region and to be completed in 2011 to mark the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight.
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On June 21, 2008 Zurab Tsereteli, founder and Director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, opened an exhibition of works from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art entitled Spring of Russian Avant-Garde. The prestigious Bankamura Museum of Art in Tokyo is the first to present the early 20th century avant-garde works by such celebrated Russian artists as Natalia Goncharova, Niko Pirosmani, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, Paul Filonov and others who could create an unparalleled style of modern art that will continue to affect the world art.