culture

On May 6 — the first day of the preview of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale — rain began falling over Venice before dawn. At the entrance to the Giardini, the city’s public gardens transformed each odd-numbered year into the ceremonial stage set of the...

A tribute to the painter and poet who died on November 23 in Jerusalem, and who carried, throughout his life, the banner of the Russian and Jewish artistic avant-garde.

Elon Musk wants to create an inhabited city on Mars. The idea is not new and is in line with the dreams of the Kremlin's "cosmists".

A new cultural institution is headed by the daughter of an oligarch directly participating in the genocidal war.

The Russian philosopher, in exile in Paris, speaks in this interview about the state of science in Russia, odious figures like Zinoviev and Dugin, and the role of philosophy in our world.

The Ukrainian political scientist calls on the West to be lucid, because Russian propagandists are using culture to give a more “humane” image to the genocidal barbarity of the Putin regime.

It is not easy to profile Maria Vassilievna Rozanova (1930, Vitebsk - 2023, Fontenay-aux-Roses), a publisher, author, art historian, architect, jeweler and fashion designer. This valiant, brilliant and unclassifiable woman was a key figure in Russian intellectual life and a great mind. In the 1970s and 1980s, Paris was the...

The new book of Françoise Thom, La marche à rebours. Regards sur l'histoire soviétique et russe, Sorbonne université presses, 2021, is a sum in which the author reassesses Russian and Soviet history in light of the numerous discoveries that the opening of many archives and the emergence of many...