Pure painting: Wassily Kandinsky and the birth of abstraction by Dr Natalia Murray
The Old Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, CB2 1RGWassily Kandinsky by Adolf Elnain, 1925 One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky, who spent most of his life between Munich and Paris and died in 1944 as a French citizen, exploited the evocative interrelation between colour and … Continue reading
Dialogue Pro(For) Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Talk by Olha Chervinska (in Russian)
Cover of the book Диалог Pro/За Ф. М. Достоевского (Spicilegium Slavicum, Vol. 1, IKRiBL, 2021) Professor Emerita of Ukraine Olha Chervinska, a renowned theorist and specialist in Slavic studies and Russian classical literature (Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Nabokov), and author … Continue reading
Traditional May Day BBQ
Wandlebury Country Park Games Field BBQ – Den Building area, Wandlebury Country Park on the Gog Magog Hills, Babraham, Cambridgeshire CB22 3AE, CambridgeCome with your friends, make new ones, enjoy a day out, and share delicious food at our traditional annual May Day celebration! We aim to meet in the BBQ area at around 12:00, have a BBQ – with food and drinks to share … Continue reading
Between Frames: The Secrets of Symbols and Memory in Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror’ with Ksenia Golubovich
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1974) is a film-essay. How was this film created through Tarkovsky’s new method of “cards” and a kind of deliberate “montage of fragments”? The film quite literally lays siege to our sense of reality and authenticity. … Continue reading
