The tradition of Christmas exhibitions of Marina Tsolakova Azizyan, artist and curator of the exhibition "The Light of Christmas", has existed for more than 20 years. The artist creates new works and invites colleagues to share their own. There are no special conditions for choosing exhibits, the main thing is to maintain the magical mood inherent in the bright Christmas holiday. Such cosy chamber expositions embody the old traditions of homes where people wait and prepare for the holiday, believe in ...

The 2nd International Festival "Christmas Lights" of the creative association "Union of Cultures" with the support of the State Historical and Art Palace and Park Museum-Reserve "Gatchina" presents the exposition "Christmas in the castle of the Knights' Palace" This annual cultural event gives everyone, regardless of age and religious confession, the opportunity to join the centuries-old tradition of celebrating Christmas. The Priory Palace Chapel welcomes not only the traditional characters of the Nativity ...

There were many answers to this question at the Open Puppet Art Festival-Competition "PuppetGrad", held in St. Petersburg 3-5 December 2021. This year the Festival-Competition is dedicated to the Year of Science and Technology. The project has been carried out in Vyborgsky District of St. Petersburg since 2012, and is not the first year it has been included in the list of municipal events of the Committee on Culture of St. Petersburg. The festival programme for all participants ...

A great gift for Moscow and visitors to the city - this year's large-scale exhibition of collectible dolls, THE ART OF THE PUPPET, will be held in December and will open the programme for the winter exhibition season: traditionally on the eve of the New Year and Christmas holidays. For the first time, doll artists and their collections will occupy the entire space of Gostiny Dvor - 14 thousand square metres of exhibition space and the beautiful Atrium, where ...

 This year, October 20, PUPPET GALLERY Varvara Skripkina turned 18! The date is special - coming of age :)! In 2003 - the first and still permanent Gallery in the city! Always be nice to everyone! Suddenly it's an angel in disguise! I understood the meaning of this phrase when in 2003 I opened the first and only art gallery of author's ...

Virtual MuñecArt. Utopia or reality. Today is the opening day of the VII season of the MuñecArt art doll exhibition. It appeared for the first time in a virtual format a year ago, like everything new, causing a lot of controversy. Something like a confrontation between traditional exhibitions and virtual ones arose. The main point of controversy was whether an online event could become a full-fledged exhibition project or whether it was a utopia. Natalia Voronina ...

Space has always attracted those who are not indifferent. In the difficult year of 2020, the Artistic Puppet Section of the TSKh DPI held the first online competition called "Let's Dance", in which more than 80 authors from different countries of the world and cities of Russia took part. The presented works, the competition itself, aroused great interest from both the participants and the organizers. All expressed the opinion that to stop ...

You probably already know about a wonderful project - the DABIDA competition. Russian-speaking masters regularly take prizes on it. But few people know about the background of this project. DABIDA is an abbreviation for the Belgian-Dutch Association of puppeteers in Russian. Today, 15 years have passed since DABIDA held its first exhibition, which is now called DABIDA Day. BUT ...

The first exhibition was held in a small workshop ... My name is Katya Shemyakina, I am an artist and curator of the art project "Too Personal" - these are one-day, two-day, and now online exhibitions, of various artists, in chamber live communication, with the audience and with each other, about current works, about life and about art. This format is very important and necessary, as artists, ...

Personal exhibition of Elena Babkina "GOGOL TYPES" On May 13, in Ryazan, in the MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF YOUTH MOVEMENT, an exhibition of doll sculpture "GOGOL TYPES", created based on illustrations by Pyotr Mikhailovich Boklevsky, was opened. The exposition is timed to coincide with the 205th anniversary of the birthday of the illustrator who lived in the Ryazan province in 1816-1897. We recall with pleasure the work of a worthy citizen of our homeland, who has done so much for ...