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The Offending Classic Photo: Nikolai Aistov as the Rajah, Julia Sedova as Gamzatti and Pavel Gerdt as Solor (ca. 1902). Courtesy of the Marius Petipa Society. We have recently seen a conflict over a Depression-era mural on the wall of a public school in San Francisco. It came under attack by the student body for its offensive content to minorities, even though the 1930s mural in question was by Russian leftist émigré artist Victor Arnautoff (hardly a household name) and was created as a protest against the injustice propagated by the United States of America against minorities.[1] A dead Na...

“Yesterday I learnt that the situation was critical,” Veeber said, referring to Kim’s condition. Kim’s translator Darya Krutova said she would not comment in line with the wishes of the his daughter. Kim won global fame with his bold portrayal of extreme violence and human brutality in allegory-rich movies, but was accused of misconduct against actresses. But over the past few years, he trained his sights on Russia and other post-Soviet countries where he worked on new projects. He presided over the main jury of the Moscow International Film Festival last year and shot his last movie,...

Korean film director Kim Ki-duk dies of Covid-19 AFP 12th December, 2020 10:42:44 Acclaimed South Korean film director Kim Ki-duk, who won global recognition for his violent works and faced allegations of abusing his actresses, died from coronavirus in Latvia on Friday, the country's top film official said. "Unfortunately, the sad news about Kim Ki-duk's death from coronavirus in Latvia is true," Dita Rietuma, head of the National Film Centre of Latvia, told AFP. "It is known from his contact persons that he died in a hospital in Riga around 1:30 a.m. earlier today," she added. The Korean dir...