Moscow is the cultural capital of Russia. It is here that the most interesting things happen in the cultural life of the country. In addition to the rich collections of Moscow museums, exhibited on a permanent basis, Moscow hosts a huge number of temporary exhibitions, many of which deserve to coincide with the time of their arrival in the capital.
To those, in the first place, include exhibitions in the Pushkin Museum . Pushkin. The museum closely cooperates with the most famous museums in the world, such as the Parisian d'Orsay, the Louvre Museum, the British Museum, the Tate Gallery in London, the Prado Museum. Thanks to such cooperation, Muscovites and guests of the capital have an opportunity to see masterpieces of world art with an enviable regularity. Over the past few years, Andy Warhol, Picasso, Modigliani, Chagall, Van Gogh, William Blake, Raphael, William Turner, Botticelli, Durer, Klee were brought here.
Individuals attract so much interest the public that, in order to get to the museum, you have to stand up huge queues. So, for example, in 2010 Picasso's exhibition was visited by more than 230 thousand people for 3 months. And the exhibition of Salvador Dalí's works from the collection of the Dali Theater-Museum in Figueres set an absolute record of attendance at the end of 2011 - over two thousand months of creation of the great surrealist artist were seen by more than 270 thousand visitors.
The culmination of the Year of Italy in Russia was a large-scale exhibition of works Caravaggio. 11 masterpieces of the famous master represent the most significant foreign collection of works of the genius painter.
- until February 19, 2012 exhibition "Caravaggio (1571-1610). Pictures from the collections of Italy and the Vatican "is opened in the main building of the Pushkin Museum
And in the Tretyakov Gallery you can see the icons of Giotto di Bondone as part of the exchange of masterpieces of art and faith between Italy and Russia. Old Russian icons have gone to Italy,
- until March 19, 2012 at the Tretyakov Gallery the exhibition "In Christ", presenting the early works of Giotto
| Amazing exposition of the Mayakovsky Museum |
| In the Museum of the Second World War |
In general, the cultural program of cross events such as "The Year of Italy in Russia "and" The Year of Russia in Italy ", is usually very intense. Next is the Year of Germany in Russia, which will begin in June 2012, and 2013 will be devoted to Dutch culture and the Dutch language.
Contemporary art in Moscow has firmly established itself on such venues as Winzavod, Flakon Design Plant, Photo Center they are . Lumiere Brothers, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Artplay Design Center . Here you can see the works of young and talented, courageous installations, impudent improvisations, searches for original forms of expression and new themes in art, artistic solutions and successful imitations to the classics . The most interesting events take place in the framework of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, which has become an annual event and gathers participants from different countries on its sites .
One of the areas of contemporary art application is architecture. The best exhibitions and lectures on architecture, dedicated to new trends in architecture, architecture history, architectural styles, as well as the development of architectural thought, look for in the State Museum of Architecture. Shchusev
There are a lot of Moscow and book fairs where you can buy a rare book or a novelty that has just come out. The most interesting of them, perhaps, is the International Fair of Intellectual Literature non / fiction, which took place in 2011 for the 13th time and is gaining popularity every year. In the program of the exhibition seminars, round tables, master classes, but most importantly on Non-fiction is a great opportunity to leave the CHA with a huge amount of quality literature.