From 9 June–30 August 2015, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is presenting a retrospective of Alexander Calder in an unprecedented exhibition dedicated to the acclaimed and influential American artist whose illustrious career spanned much of the twentieth century.
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography is celebrating its fifth birthday with a project that traces the development of Soviet and Russian photography over the entire 20th century through ‘Soviet Photo’ magazine.
As part of the Hungarian Culture Days in Russia, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, presents a retrospective of the work of classic photojournalist Robert Capa, one of the founders of the legendary Magnum photo agency.
On May 9th, 2015, Russia celebrates the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War – this is how the part of the World War II that took place on Russian territory is called in Russia. Several Moscow museums have prepared special exhibitions dedicated to the war, in which the Soviet Union lost over 26 million people, and the victory over Nazism in Europe.
The Original Russia festival is being held at the Central House of Artists for a second time. It includes photo images, paintings, films, folk crafts, presentations and master classes.
Right across the street from the HSE buildings on Myasnitskaya Ulitsa there is an eye-catching bright-blue mansionwith a cour d'honneur and a portal decorated with white atlantes. This building has been closed for decades, but today it’s open and showing a unique exhibition of hats by Philip Treacy. This might be a good way to spend that spare hour between classes or meetings on Myasnitskaya.
On October 17, 2014, an exhibition ‘Moscow and London. Reflections. 1914 – 2014’ opened at the Museum of Moscow. It is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the ‘Old English Embassy’ museum and tells the story of life in two world capitals during the last century through the use of photography and newsreel.
