In Brief
After sharing feminist and LGBTQ-friendly art on social media, 26-year-old theater director Yulia Tsvetkova has been placed under house arrest, fined, and accused of distributing “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors."
Art
The Coming World is an ambitious portrait of a dark future in which the world has run out of its resources, but still hasn’t found a way to “Planet B.”
Film
The Moscow International Experimental Film Festival creates an experience of genuine kino pravda.
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In Brief
Unsuspecting visitors apparently mistook the thief for a gallery employee.
In Brief
Saudi Arabia's financial prominence in the arts has been under active evaluation in the weeks following journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance.
In Brief
There were at least two things Americans should have banned outright in the 1970s when they had the chance: asbestos and Donald Trump.
Books
Susan Pack's Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde celebrates the experimental film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union.
Art
I don’t just see the images as documents of atrocity. I also see them as aesthetic, and that doesn’t sit easily. Indeed, it feels immoral. It feels wrong.
In Brief
Ambassador Andrey Karlov was killed by an off-duty police officer who, after firing the fatal shots, shouted, "Don’t forget Aleppo. Don’t forget Syria."
In Brief
St. Petersburg residents will vote on how to dress a replica statue of Michelangelo's "David" that came to the city in May, following a complaint from a woman who said his nudity "spoils the city's historic appearance and warps children's souls."
Film
The Russian Woodpecker is a documentary about zombies.
News
Archaeologists restoring a cathedral in Zvenigorod, an old town 40 miles west of Moscow, recently stumbled upon stacks of centuries-old documents hoarded by an unexpected breed of collectors: birds.