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“Cloud in Pants:” A Video-Poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky in Russian and English (with Vadim Astrakhan)

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

In 1915 Vladimir Mayakovsky shocked the Russian poetry scene with his epic poem “Cloud in Pants.” One hundred years later Vadim Astrakhan has not only translated the poem into English in his trademark “modernizing / universalizing” fashion, but also put it on film.  In this film he recites the poem in both Russian and English against a vibrant and unique visual background that…

BOOK TALK. ART AND COMMERCE IN LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA: THE PEREDVIZHNIKI, A PARTNERSHIP OF ARTISTS BY ANDREY SHABANOV

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room 420 W 118th Street, #1219 International Affairs Building, New York City

Contemporaries of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy and predecessors of Diaghilev’s World of Art and the Russian avant-garde, the group of artists known as the Peredvizhniki was no less significant for Russian art and culture of the time. Including virtually every leading painter, notably key representatives of realism and nationalism such as Repin and Shishkin, the group was celebrated for its innovative…

Agitation for Freedom: Revolution and Its Avant-garde

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City

Please join us for a conference in celebration of the centennial of the Russian Revolution. It will include two panels and a round table entitled “Why Celebrate the Revolution Today?” This event is organized in conjunction with Russian Revolution: A Contested Legacy, an exhibition dedicated to the centennial of the Russian Revolution at International Print Center New York (IPCNY), curated by Masha Chlenova. The…