12:09 Collective face
This year marks a couple of milestones for the Russian emigre painter Oleg Tselkov: his 70th birthday and, as of last week, the mounting of a one-man retrospective of his work at the State Russian Museum.

11:23 Talent scouts
A group of U.S.-based theater professionals visiting St. Petersburg's New Drama Festival this week has expressed confidence in Russia's fragile contemporary theater scene and hopes to build artistic bridges from here to America.