Revolution – New Art for a New World has been announced as an Official Selection for this year’s Master of Art Film Festival to be held from 12 to 30 April 2018 in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna in Bulgaria. The film will be shown in the competitive category: Contemporary Art, Installation Art, Protest Art.
Made to celebrate 250 years of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Hermitage Revealed explores the human stories of one of the greatest art collections in the world. Discover the amazing stories that saw the Imperial Palace transformed into today’s world-renowned museum.
Sunday 14 January 2018 at 2.00–3.30 pm
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Tickets £3
Members/Concessions £2
Female artists thrived 100 years ago in Russia when women got the vote.
Listen to the Pushkin House Podcast featuring Margy Kinmonth here: http://www.pushkinhouse.org/pushkin-house-podcast/
Director Margy Kinmonth filmed him singing Tchaikovsky’s “To Forget So Soon” in Foxtrot’s film celebrating the anniversary of the Mariinsky Theatre, alongside artistic director Valery Gergiev, and The South Bank Show’s Melvyn Bragg. There’s a great behind the scenes moment at the Mariinsky as he rushes back between the applause to look for water.
Hear Dimitri Hvorostovsky sing here on the DVD: MARIINSKY THEATRE 1783 – 2008
100th anniversary of Russian Revolution was marked by Workers Revolutionary Party Rally in London, inviting director Margy Kinmonth to speak about the role the artists played in Russian Revolution. Followed by screening of Revolution – New Art for a New World.
Available here on DVD with unseen extras, including the strange story of “The Curse of Stalin’s Wreath”
Margy Kinmonth’s Revolution – New Art For A New World will be screened at the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, in a unique and historic cinematic double bill with Hermitage Revealed on 17 November 2017. Formerly the Winter Palace of the Tsars, where the Revolutionaries took ultimate control a hundred years ago, the State Hermitage Museum today boasts one of largest collections in the world.
