TIMOSHENKO, PUTIN AND MEDVEDEV BY VLAD MONRO

Have you heard about the Ukrainian political leader Julia Timoshenko, who was imprisoned not long ago? In it's winter issue Artchronika magazine has published a special project, dedicated to that story, where Russian artist Vlad Monro plays the roles of Timoshenko, Medvedev and Putin! Here is the video of how that shooting was made and some lay-outs :)

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ANDY WARHOL'S INTERVIEW IN RUSSIA

Mass media news - Andy Warhol's Interview magazine has been launched in Russia! Here is the cover of the 1st issue December 2011 - Janyary 2012. Editor-in-chief is Aliona Doletskaya, who had made Russian Vogue for 12 years. NB: editor in large - Naomi Campbell!

SMALL MOSCOW OFFICE

made some photos of the editorial office of the russian art magazine iskusstvo, where i spent all saturday. 

i like such small spaces, they feel like home, especially with such sweat artworks on the walls)) i can imagine how i make tea in this tiny kitchen after finishing writing some long article about the exhibition i've seen on the weekend and discassing with colleagues some arty gossip. sometimes i wish i didn't change profession and proceeded with journalism)

MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN RUSSIAN ART MARKET

january issue of russian art magazine artchronika has published the annual list of the most influential people on russian art scene. it includes artists, curators, collectors, investors, critics and other figures, dealing with russian art. the 1st place was given to joseph backstein, commissioner of the 3rd moscow biennale of contemporary art. he made all previous moscow biennales too, but the one held this year was outstanding by the geography of participants and number of visitors - during 1 month it was attended by half a million people! 2nd place is shared by roman abramovich and daria jukova, collectors and founders of garage center of contemporary art. the 3rd place is occupied by olga sviblova, moscow house of photography director. she is followed by marat gelman, jean-jubert martin, andrey erofeev, vasiliy tsereteli, sofia and roman trocenko, oleg kulick shalva breys. unfortunately the english language part of artchronika website doesn't work at the moment, otherwise i would have given you the link to the full list of winners.