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Arts Calendar / August 4 / Exhibitions
Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style
BondRare costumes, atmospheric sets, iconic gadgets, props, original photographs and concept drawings will thrill audiences in this summer blockbuster exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise from 11 June 2014 to 7 September 2014. Celebrating the craft behind the world's most iconic movie brand, Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style takes visitors on an immersive journey through a dozen themed rooms and environments, from 1962's Dr No to 2012's Skyfall. Featuring over 500 unforgettable objects: Roger Moore's white tuxedo from Octopussy and the spacesuit from Moonraker; Scaramanga's Golden Gun from The Man With The Golden Gun, Jaws' fearsome teeth which first appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me; gadgets from Q Branch including the attache case given to Bond in From Russia With Love; Omega Seamaster watches from Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and The World Is Not Enough (1999) with built-in special features; and the 1964 silver Aston Martin DB5 from GoldenEye which famously returned to the screen in Skyfall. Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style is the result of collaboration between the Barbican Centre, London, and the Bond production company, EON Productions. It is a unique exhibition, guest-curated by fashion historian Bronwyn Cosgrave and Oscar®-winning costume designer Lindy Hemming and is designed by Ab Rogers who all had unprecedented access to EON's production archive. EON Productions Limited and Danjaq LLC are wholly owned and controlled by the Broccoli/Wilson family. Danjaq is the US based company that co-owns, with MGM, the copyright in the existing James Bond films and controls the right to produce future James Bond films as well as all worldwide merchandising. EON Productions, an affiliate of Danjaq, is the UK based production company which makes the James Bond films. The 007 franchise is the longest running in film history with twenty-two films produced since 1962. Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli succeeded Albert R "Cubby" Broccoli and have produced some of the most successful Bond films ever including Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. A world-class arts and learning organisation, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms including dance, film, music, theatre and visual arts. Its creative learning programme further underpins everything it does. Over 1.5 million people pass through the Barbican’s doors annually, hundreds of artists and performers are featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite. The architecturally renowned centre opened in 1982 and comprises the Barbican Hall, the Barbican Theatre, the Pit, Cinemas One, Two and Three, Barbican Art Gallery, a second gallery The Curve, foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside Terrace, a glasshouse conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants. The City of London Corporation is the founder and principal funder of the Barbican Centre.
Multimedia Art Museum 
Primrose: Early Colour Photography in Russia
PrimrosePrimrose: Early Colour Photography in Russia is a retrospective of colour experiments and developments in Russian photography over the course of a century, from the 1860s to the 1970s. In tracing these advancements the exhibition also moves through the social history of Russia itself. It presents both the history of Russian photography and the history of Russia in photography, depicting life over the course of a century, as the country endured unprecedented upheaval. Primrose will feature over 140 works by Pyotr Pavlov, Pyotr Vedenisov, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Ivan Shagin, Georgy Petrusov, Dmitry Baltermants, Boris Mikhailov and other classics of Russian photography. These will be arranged in five chronological sections, each looking at different periods and their prevailing photographic aesthetics. The exhibition shows the development of photographic colour technology and the social transformations which altered the role of photography in Russian society. The exhibition opens with photographs from the 1860s when tinting of prints with watercolour and oil paints was undertaken by hand. Initially used for portraits, this technique was later extended to architectural, landscape and industrial subject matter. In the early 20th century under the patronage of Tsar Nicholas II the photographic documentation of life in Russia became a priority of the Empire. Using a tricolorplate system he adapted from Prof. Adolf Miethe, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky was trusted with the task of travelling the country to capture its vastness and diversity. His output from those years is presented in the second section of the exhibition alongside the autochromes of nobleman Pyotr Vedenisov, whose autobiographical focus provided valuable insights into the lifestyle of the Russian elite. The third section will examine the period following WWI when the Soviet government, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, supported photography as an important propaganda tool. Photomontage became central to their agenda allowing for the communication of new Soviet myths to a largely illiterate population. Also included are the later works of Alexander Rodchenko, featuring pictures of sporting and art events taken in a pictorial style. These provided Rodchenko with a form of escapism and a way to express his disillusionment with the notion of a Soviet utopia. The production of Soviet-made colour film did not appear until 1946 and was accessible to only a handful of official photographers. The Khrushchev Thaw in the mid-1950s saw much of Stalin's repression reversed, allowing photography to move closer to everyday reality as seen in Dmitri Baltermants' pictures in section four. At the same time hand-tinted portraits began appearing on the market again. These were taken anonymously as private photo studios were still forbidden. Referencing these anonymous studio portraits is Boris Mikhailov's celebrated series "Luriki" (1971-1985). Comprising the fifth section, the series looks to expose Soviet ideology through humour and stereotypical imagery. The use of hand-colouring techniques represents Russia's stalled progress as well as nostalgic sentimentality for old craft. This section also presents Mikhailov's slideshow "Suzi et Cetera" (1960s-1970s). The piece with its focus on the individual is meant as a political act, challenging the dominant "we" of the Soviet nation. It was impossible to show the work publicly; such exhibitions took place in underground clubs, artist studios and apartments synonymous with the Soviet nonconformist art of the time. Curated by Olga Sviblova, Director of Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography Museum. The exhibition is part of the UK-Russia Year of Culture 2014.
Multimedia Art Museum 
The War that Ended Peace
The War That Ended PeaceMultimedia Art museum and Moscow House of Photography, International Committee of the Red Cross (Geneve / Moscow), The Polish Army Museum (Warsaw), Imperial War Museum (London), Museum of Military History (Vienna), The Royal Museum of Army and Military History (Brussels), Foundation for Preservation of the Russian Heritage (Brussels), Museum of Nicephore Niepce (Chalon-sur-Saone, France) and others present an exhibition "The War That Ended Peace" dedicated to the First World War centenary. "The War That Ended Peace" is the extensive international project which was organized by leading world museums, state archives and private collectors. The exhibition reconstructs the war 1914-1918 and shows it through the eyes of all participants, through the voices, photographs, letters and mementoes of those who were there. The title of the exhibition is the title of Margaret MacMillan's book "The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 2014" telling the history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War. Margaret MacMillan is one of the most recognized and respected historians in the English-speaking world, comes with much expectation. Her 2003 worldwide bestseller, Paris 1919, won many distinguished awards and was one of the handful of non-fiction books in a given year that become must-reads for everyone, from the intelligentsia to the historically minded general reader. The First World War was a turning point in world history. It claimed the lives of over 22 million people across the globe and had an impact on the lives of everyone. To the First World War centenary a lot of European museums will develope a vibrant programme of cultural projects and events to help people everywhere understand the First World War and its impact on society and individuals today. In Moscow Multimedia Art museum the display will start from the Viennese Museum of Military History's collection photographies, which argue about formal beginning of the war. The important accents of the exhibition space will be 13 screens in the museum halls: a news-reel illustrating the most significant events of every year of the war will show at the six of screens; the frames titled "Water", "Death", "Air", "Trenches", "Attack" and others at the seven of the screens. The exhibition's objects also includes photographies by amateurs who took part in the First World War, stereophotographies and stereoscopic projections, creating a three-dimensional image, and avtohromy presenting the war in color, collections of photographies from Red Cross archive, "Le Miroir" magazine and Russian editions, caricatures, color and black-and-white lithographies, posters by Kazimir Malevich, Aristarkh Lentulov, Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Multimedia Art Museum 
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