Culture and art

Diego Rodriguez de Silva Velazquez is one of the symbols of the artistic era of his time. He made a brilliant career as a diplomat at the court of the Spanis...

A book of essays about man and the culture he creates - from art to science. The focus is on the individual, his creativity, knowledge and values.

Many actresses do not like to be given the epithet “intellectual,” but Irina Miroshnichenko is not one of them. It is difficult to choose a more accurate epi...

Dilapidated condition, technical wear and tear, replacement with new houses is a familiar context with which today the future of Soviet standard mass constru...

The article was published in the journal “Foma” No. 11(79) 2009

Rereading fairy tales familiar from childhood is always an unusual feeling. Sometimes we are surprised to notice that the story is three times shorter than w...

Designing the Future is a book by American industrial designer and futurist Jacques Fresco, founder of the Venus Project. The book, in a simple and fascinati...

History of the harmonica. History of the Folk Music Center "Garmon".

“Conversations with the composer - his thoughts about himself, his work, his predecessors and contemporaries, reflections on the future of art, about creativ...

Not a single name in world philosophy has been so shamelessly worn out, zealously erased and brazenly woven into phenomena, events and ideas that have not th...

The major work of fiction in this collection, ‘A History of Books’, explores the relationship between reading and writing in twenty nine sections, each of...