Is art made by women different than the one made by men? An interesting question that the State Tretyakov Gallery examines in their recent exhibition. In the building dedicated to modern art on the Krymskij Val, overl...

FASHION AND STYLE IN PHOTOGRAPHY 2001

2001.6.25　 Text: Sergey Safonoff

Spring has finally roused the fashion industry: all of a sudden numerous Moscow galleries and podiums were engulfed with most interesting shows and exhibitions. Due to such frenzied activity and the frenetic pace of e...

ILYA CHICHKAN “GIRLS AND HARES”

2001.4.25　 Text: Sergey Safonoff

An exhibition by Ilya Chichkan, the representative of the art movement "Ukrainian New Wave" developed in the 1990s, is being held at the Ovcharenko Gallery in Moscow from March 20th to April 19th.　Conceptionaly and t...

EVA 2000

2000.12.25　 Text: Sergey Safonoff

The most important event in the media life of Moscow this month came to be the international exhibition EVA 2000 (Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts 2000). The convention's subject was 'New technologies in museums...

FOCOM 2000

2000.11.25　 Text: Sergey Safonoff

This year the annual Moscow International Festival "Focom" festival took place in the building of the first Moscow electric power-station, which appears now to be one of the most expensive galleries of our city - "New...

FIRE IN OSTANKINO (MOSCOW’S MAIN TV-TOWER)

2000.10.25　 Text: Sergey Safonoff

This month there is few news. Except one - due to the fire in Ostankino (Moscow's main TV-tower), the whole city of Moscow was totally cut off from a supply of television for nearly a month. Something we coul...

REVERSE PHOTOGRAPHY

2000.9.25　 Text: Sergey Safonoff

This month I had a chance to compare life in two major cities of Russia: Moscow and St. Petersburg. In many aspects they're two worlds apart. Still, it was pretty easy to find some of the most general tendencies. T...