Thursday, November 5, 2009

New York Plus Plus # 36

New York Plus Plus
The Russian Cultural News #36


10.25.09
The Man Who Changed the World of Art: Sergei Diaghilev and the Art Revolution of the Early 20th Century
10.30.09 - 11.26.09
TRANSIT. Works by Tanya Badanina&Vladimir Nasedkin
10.29.09
RUSSIAN HALLOWEEN PARTY
Hosted by "Alla Pugacheva
". Depesha.
11.02.09 - 11.07.09
Allan Miller’s YOU CANNOT START WITHOUT ME - VALERY GERGIEV, MAESTRO
11.03.09 - 11.14.09
Pushkin's "Little Tragedies" in English
11.06.09
Meet the writer: Ludmila Petrushevskaya. 8PM. Russian Samovar
11.13.09 - 11.22.09
Russian Film Week NYC.
Opening Night. Screening and presentation of Sergei Solovyev’s film «Anna Karenina» (160 min)
BMCC Tribeca Performing Art Center 199 Chambers Street, New York NY 7:00 pm

10.15.09. -02.15.10
Neue Galerie “From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection
10.06., 10.14., 10.21
MOTHER EARTH SISTER MOON. CHRISTIAN TOMASZEWSKI AND JOANNA MALINOWSKA
10.03.09 - 10.16.09
PERFORMA 09 COMMISSIONS FIRST-EVER FILM PROJECT,
FUTURIST LIFE REDUX, WITH SFMOMA

92Y Russian Sunday
The Man Who Changed the World of Art: Sergei Diaghilev and the Art Revolution of the Early 20th Century SUN, OCT 25, 4PM Tickets $27 Use the code SERG when you purchase tickets to get a 25% discount!
One of the world's great cultural impresarios and the founder of the Ballet Russes, Sergei Diaghalev had an enormous impact on the developments of Russian and Western European visual and performing arts. What made Diaghilev the right man for the right time?
Join Russian-born musicologist, lecturer, journalist and art critic Maya Pritsker as she discusses the life and times of Sergei Diaghilev. Hear about his circle of friends, his personal tastes and his relationship with artists, the press and patrons in the context of the major artistic trends and political movements in Russia and Europe between 1890 and 1929.
For tickets: Visit www.92Y.org/RussianSundays, call 212.415.5500 or stop by the Box Office.


RUSSIAN HALLOWEEN PARTY
Hosted by "Alla Pugacheva "

October 29th, 2009 @ 8:00 PM
Vlada Bar, 331 West 51st between 8th and 9th avenues, New York


Music DJ Sasha Alexander
Best costume wins a pair of tickets to NY Fashion Week (February 2010).



Transit.
Works by Tanya Badanina&Vladimir Nasedkin.
Ober Gallery
October 30 – November 26
Opening – November 1, 3PM – 6PM
6 North Main Street Kent, CT. 06757 860-927-5030
www.obergallery.com

Allan Miller’s YOU CANNOT START WITHOUT ME - VALERY GERGIEV, MAESTRO
Opens in New York on Monday, November 2nd
Symphony Space www.symphonyspace.org
2537 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
(212) 864-5400
11.02.09 - 11.07.09
An intimate yearlong look into the life of Valery Gergiev, widely acclaimed as one of the leading conductors of our time, YOU CANNOT START WITHOUT ME - VALERY GERGIEV MAESTRO offers rare insight into the talent, training and concentration required of a great conductor and reveals how Gergiev combines an impossible international conducting schedule with his job as Artistic and General Director of the legendary Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. The film includes scenes with the London Symphony Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera, Gergiev's boyhood home in the Caucasus mountains, Moscow, cities along the Volga River and performances by Yefim Bronfman, Renée Fleming, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Leonidas Kavakos, Uliana Lopatkina, and Anna Netrebko. Allan Miller's film reveals Gergiev's rehearsal process and technique and allows audiences to know and understand Gergiev the man in order to better appreciate the brilliance of Gergiev the artist.

Academy Award-winning director Allan Miller has documented some of the most important musical events of the last two decades. His body of work includes Academy Award winner for Best Documentary From Mao to Mozart – Isaac Stern in China, Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Small Wonders, Emmy Award winner Itzhak Perlman - Fiddling for the Future, and The Turandot Project, documenting the collaboration between conductor Zubin Mehta and director Zhang Yimou in Beijing.

Acclaimed producer Margaret Smilow’s numerous projects on culture and arts include the Academy Award nominated Music for the Movies: Bernard Hermann, the Emmy award-winning Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note, Itzhak Perlman: Fiddling For The Future, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, and Harlem in Montmartre – A Paris Jazz Story.

A production of THIRTEEN in association with White Nights Foundation of America and WNET.ORG. Directed and edited by Allan Miller. Margaret Smilow and Allan Miller produced, with R. Douglas Sheldon and Margaret Smilow as executive producers.

Little Tragedies. Alexandr Pushkin
Tuesday, November 03, 2009 through Saturday, November 14, 2009
www.littletragedies.org
tickets only $18

In English verse of four short plays by Russia's most beloved writer.
Alexandr Pushkin's LITTLE TRAGEDIES consists of four short verse plays about human nature's inherent contradictions. "The Knight-Miser," the richest man in the world discovers that money can't buy him love or the respect of his son. "Mozart and Salieri" is the story of the greatest genius--and the greatest villain--in the history of music. The Stone Guest features the swashbuckling lover-poet Don Juan in a love triangle with his fiery mistress Laura (the actual prototype for Carmen) and Doña Anna, the true love of his life, (with far more action in a few minutes than in all of Chekhov's plays combined). And in "The Feast in Time of Plague," revelers honor a fallen friend with poems and songs, in search of answers to the question: what do we do, when there's nothing we can do?
Length: 2 hrs 15 mins
Intermission: Yes
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.

Meet the writer: Ludmila Petrushevskaya.
Russian Samovar
November 6, 2009. 8PM.

Russian Samovar
256 W 52nd St, New York, NY 10019-5821
(212) 757-0168
www.russiansamovar.com
Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская) (born May 26, 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. Petrushevskaya is regarded as one of Russia's most talented contemporary writers, whose writing combine postmodernist trends with the psychological insights and parodic touches of writers such as Anton Chekhov.
Over the last few decades, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya has been one of the most admired and acclaimed contemporary writers at work in Eastern Europe: The Times has called her "one of the finest living Russian writers".[citation needed]
In 1979, she was co-writer of the scenario for one of the most influential Russian animated films, Tale of Tales. She served as a jury member in the 3rd Open Russian Festival of Animated Film in 1998.
Her works include the novels The Time Night (1992) and The Number One, both short-listed for the Russian Booker Prize, and Immortal Love, a collection of short stories and monologues. Since the late 1980s her plays, stories and novels have been published in more than 30 languages all over the world. In 2003 she was awarded the Pushkin Prize in Russian literature by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Germany. She was awarded The Russian State Prize for arts (2004), The Stanislavsky Award (2005), and The Triumph Prize (2006).
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya lives in Moscow, where she continues her work.
In a 1993 interview with Sally Laird, translator of her novella, "The Time Night," Petrushevskaya said of her own work, "Russia is a land of women Homers, women who tell their stories orally, just like that, without inventing anything. They're extraordinarily talented storytellers. I'm just a listener among them."[citation needed][1]
Penguin has announced a new book, "There Once Lived a Woman who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby," by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya to be published in the U.S. in October 2009.
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/08/31/090831fi_fiction_petrushevskaya?currentPage=3
New New Yorker Oct.24, 2009


Russian Film Week NYC
November 13 - November 22.
November 13th BMCC Tribeca Performing Art Center 199 Chambers Street, New York NY 7:00 pm Opening Night. Screening and presentation of Sergei Solovyev’s film «Anna Karenina» (160 min)
Петр Мамонов - Иван Грозный
Фильь "Царь" ю режиссер: Павел Лунгин
November 14th
Lighthouse International Theater 111 E 59th Street, New York NY
2:00 pm Screening and presentation of Nikolai Dostal’s film «Pete on the way to heaven» (Petya po doroge v tsarstvie nebesnoe) (97 min)
4:30 pm Screening and presentation of Aleksandr Proshkin’s film «Miracle» (Chudo) (100 min)
7:30 pm Screening and presentation of Sergei Snezhkin’s film «Bury me behind the baseboard» (Pohoronite menya pod plintusom) (117 min)

Millenium Theater 1029 Brighton Beach Ave, Brooklyn, NY
12:00 pm Screening and presentation of Ekaterina Shagalova’s film «Once upon a time in the provinces» (Odnazhdi v provintsii) (100 min)

2:00 pm Screening and presentation of Aleksei Mizgirev’s film «Buben, baraban» (105 min)
November 15th
Lighthouse International Theater 111 E 59th Street, New York NY
4:30 pm Screening and presentation of Ekaterina Shagalova’s film «Once upon a time in the provinces» (Odnazhdi v provintsii) (100 min)
7:00 pm Screening and presentation of Nikolai Khomeriki’s film «Tale in the darkness» (Skazka pro temnotu) (76 min)
Millenium Theater 1029 Brighton Beach Ave, Brooklyn, NY
12:00 pm Screening and presentation of Aleksandr Proshkin’s film «Miracle» (100 min)
9:00 pm Screening of Sergei Snezhkin’s film «Bury me behind the baseboard» (Pohoronite menya pod plintusom) (117 min)
November 16th
School of Visual Arts Theatre 333 East 23rd Street, New York NY
6:30 pm Screening and presentation of Pavel Lungin’s film «Tsar» in the small auditorium (99 min)
6:30 pm Screening and presentation of Lidiya Bobrova’s film "Believe!" in the big auditorium
8:30 pm Roundtable Discussion in the small auditorium. Topic: Advancement of Russian films abroad
9:00 pm Screening and presentation of Pavel Lungin’s film «Tsar» in the big auditorium (99 min)
November 17th
New York Film Academy 100 East 17th Street, 4th Fl./ Screening Room
6:00 pm Special event of the Film Week – Ukrainian film by Kira Muratova «Melody for a Street Organ» (Melodiya dlya Sharmanki) (153 min)

9:00 Roundtable Discussion. Topic: Independent post-Soviet cinema

Brooklyn Public Library 1 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
6:00 pm Screening and presentation of Rustem Abdrashev’s film «Gift to Stalin» (Podarok Stalinu) (99 min)
November 18th
Columbia University
12:00 pm Screening of Aleksei Mizgirev’s film «Buben, baraban» (105 min)
4:15 pm Screening of Nikolai Khomeriki’s film «Tale in the darkness» (Skazka pro temnotu) (76 min)
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall 1190 Amsterdam Ave. New York, NY
8:00 pm Screening of Valeriya Gai Germanika’s film «Everybody dies but me» (Vse umrut, a ya ostanus) (77 min)
9:30 pm Roundtable Discussion. Topic: «New Barbarians» in Russian cinema – a new generation of Russian film directors
November 20th
NYU Cantor Film Center 36 East 8 Street New York City, New York 10003
7:00 pm Screening and presentation of Vladimir Sinelnikov’s film “Black spot”
November 22th
Millenium Theater 1029 Brighton Beach Ave, Brooklyn, NY
11:00 am «Tale in the darkness» (Skazka pro temnotu) (76 min)
1:30 pm «Miracle» (Chudo) (100 min)
4:00 pm «Gift to Stalin» (Podarok Stalinu) (99 min)
6:30 pm «Pete on the way to heaven» (Petya po doroge v tsarstvie nebesnoe) (97 min)
8:30 pm «Tsar» (99 min)
11:00 pm «Everybody dies but me» (Vse umrut, a ya ostanus) (77 min)
MCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers Street, New York NY Tel: 212.220.1460
School of Visual Arts Theatre 333 West 23rd Street, New York NY Tel: 212.592.2980
Lighthouse International Theater 111 East 59th Street, New York NY Tel: 212.821.9427
New York Film Academy 100 East 17th Street, 4th Fl./ Screening Room 212.674.4300

Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch 1 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 718.230.2100
Columbia University, Schermerhorn Hall 1190 Amsterdam Ave. New York, NY 212.854.4900

Millenium Theater 1029 Brighton Beach Ave, Brooklyn, NY 718.615.1500
Neue Galerie “From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection
On October 15, Neue Galerie New York will open “From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection.” With this exhibition, the museum honors the life and work of its co-founder, Serge Sabarsky. A tireless advocate for German and Austrian art, Sabarsky was the driving force behind the creation of the museum. He was also a dedicated collector, who acquired numerous masterworks by the artists he cherished. The exhibition demonstrates the range and quality of the Sabarsky Collection, with its holdings in works by Austrian artists Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka, and German artists Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, among many others. It runs through February 15, 2010.

“The Neue Galerie exists today because of the vision and drive of two men: Ronald Lauder and Serge Sabarsky,” said Renée Price, Director of the Neue Galerie. “With this exhibition of selections from the Sabarsky collection, we pay homage to Serge and to his legacy.”

“Nothing in the world had a greater influence on me than my Sunday afternoons with Serge,” said Ronald Lauder, President and Co-founder of the Neue Galerie. “The most important lessons I learned about art came from these discussions with him; I learned to look carefully, to immerse myself, and to follow my passion. These lessons have guided me through the years.”

Serge Sabarsky (1912-1996) had a colorful life. Born in Vienna, he worked as a clown and set designer for Simplicissimus, the leading cabaret of the era. He fled his native city in 1938 and settled in New York, where he worked successfully as a contractor before establishing a gallery for Austrian and German Expressionist art. In his later years, he left the commercial art world in order to organize touring museum exhibitions of his collection. With his friend Ronald S. Lauder, he established the Neue Galerie. Although Sabarsky died in 1996, before the museum came to fruition, his passion, expertise, and generosity have informed every aspect of the institution. Since opening in 2001, the Neue Galerie has enjoyed tremendous success, drawing worldwide interest and realizing Sabarsky’s dream: a permanent home in the United States for German and Austrian art and design of the early twentieth century .

MOTHER EARTH SISTER MOON
CHRISTIAN TOMASZEWSKI AND JOANNA MALINOWSKA
Giant "Space Suit" Sculptures to House Fashion Show Inspired by Science-Fiction Style Elements of the Former Soviet Bloc
Installation: November 4 - 22, opening November 4 from 6-8 pm Performances: Nov 6 at 6 + 8 pm, Nov 14 at 8 pm, and Nov 21 at 6 + 8 pm at chashama 679. 679 Third Avenue at East 43rd Street.
For Performa 09, Polish artist Christian Tomaszewski, in collaboration with video and performance artist Joanna Malinowska, considers how the future was imagined by the Communist regimes of the former Soviet Bloc. Mother Earth Sister Moon explores this theme by examining the fashion and style elements related to a diverse range of Eastern Bloc phenomena, including the Soviet space program, sci-fi film and literature of the era, and the cults surrounding the mysterious 1908 explosion over the Tunguska River Valley in central Siberia. This research will manifest itself as a giant reconstruction of the suit worn by the first woman in space—Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova—that also pays tribute to the sculpture Hon-en Katedral (“She-a Cathedral”), an enormous female figure conceived and built by Niki de Saint Phalle with Jean Tinguely in 1966. Visitors to the sculpture will be able to walk inside it and—at designated “performance” times—view a fashion show, with music by Masami Tomihisa, featuring both reconstructions of actual garments and new designs that evoke the Soviet space program and science-fiction films. In this way, the live show will act as a curated design exhibition in motion.

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 SECOND AVENUE NEW YORK, NY 10003; (212) 505-5181 fax (212) 477-2714
For Immediate Release October 13, 2009

Contact: Stephanie Gray at publicity@anthologyfilmarchives.org

Anthology presents with PERFORMA 09
November 3 - 16

PERFORMA 09 COMMISSIONS FIRST-EVER FILM PROJECT,
FUTURIST LIFE REDUX, WITH SFMOMA,
TO BE PRESENTED AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
MONDAY NOVEMBER 16TH at 8 PM

11 Incredible Contemporary Film and Video Artists to Re-Imagine
Scenes from Lost Futurist Film Vita Futurista

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Accompanying Retrospective of Rare Futurist-Related Films,
The Polyexpressive Symphony: Futurism on Film,
to be Presented by Performa November 3-11

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