IRINA ANTONOVA AND ANTON BELOV: HOW TO FIND A PLACE FOR CULTURE INSIDE ONESELF
Monday November, 3, 18.00–20.00
Garage Education Center
How can you build the perfect museum? What is the social and cultural role of the museum? These are questions to which every museum professional, whether working with classical or modern art, has their own answer. Living legend Irina Antonova, who led the Pushkin Museum for more than fifty years, talks to the director of Garage Museum Anton Belov about how to find a place for culture inside oneself and how modern museology is organized.
Admission is free, but advance registration is required.
Irina Antonova led the Pushkin Museum for over 52 years, and is the chief curator of the State Museums of Russia; honorary member of the International Council of Museums UNESCO; Academician of the Russian Academy of Education and the Russian Academy of Arts; Honorary Doctor of State Humanitarian University, and Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. She was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation; Order of the Red Banner of Labor; Order of the October Revolution; Order of Merit for the Fatherland 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class, amongst many others honors.
Anton Belov is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (NITU "MISA"), founder of the nonprofit Project Gallery White, designed to work with young artists, and the bilingual magazine and online resource ARTGUIDE, dedicated to the coverage of events in the field of contemporary art. Since October 2010, he has been the director of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, an independent platform for the cultural development of new thinking through exhibitions, educational, and scientific activities.
