The Pushkin Museum and the Void – Newspaper Kommersant No. 51 (7496) of 03/27/2023
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Last secular week, Marina Loshak was escorted from the post of director of the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin. Then they had breakfast, and then they had breakfast again – either at Saviv in collaboration with Evgenia Linovich’s Masterpeace brand, or at Anton Pinsky’s Le Pigeon. Then they opened the True Colors exhibition at the Alina Pinskaya Gallery and, finally, watched the fresh Turandot at the Theater on Bronnaya. They also received awards from the Association of Film and Television Producers (APKiT).
On the birthday of Irina Antonova (she could have turned 101 years old), Marina Loshak invited guests to celebrate this event and showed her own, but already perfectly tidied up and empty director’s office. The day before, Telegram channels reported that Ms. Loshak would be replaced by the director of the Museum of Architecture, Elizaveta Likhacheva. However, none of the museums, nor the Ministry of Culture has yet officially confirmed the information. Moreover, the table and the director’s office were emptied as part of the installation “My room and a half” by Alexander Brodsky. The storytelling is this: ten years ago, when Mrs. Loshak came to the Pushkin Museum, she did not force Irina Antonova out of her office and took over the reception room. And now, a decade later, between the tables of the two directors, it was possible to build a corridor from the books of reviews of the exhibitions that have passed since then – many of which look today as evidence of the existence of Atlantis.
So Mrs. Loshak did not say out loud that she was leaving, but that day everyone around was just screaming about it. The right to exclusive news was to go to a family friend, Mikhail Shvydkoy. He published a column in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on Tuesday morning – but, of course, there was no longer any exclusive. So the installation turned out to be too loud. The main thing that the dramaturgy of the evening was called upon to voice was that the decision to leave belongs to Mrs. Loshak herself. And also – that Irina Antonova was looking for a successor for a long time and meticulously.
There was a convincing list of guests at the premiere of Turandot: the so-called old money (well, by the standards of our young secular society) of Boris Belotserkovsky met with the new money of Karina Nigay. Andrey Prikotenko’s performance itself, with Chinese subtitles in key scenes, looked like the first consequence of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping. However, the key to the first warm spring evening can be considered a quote from the current performance, which, of course, Gozzi did not have: “Why do we need Patricks and smoothies if there is no main thing? There is no feat for the sake of love?
Another highlight was the presentation of the APKiT award for two years at once. In order not to turn a four-hour timekeeping into an eight-hour one, all personal nominations were cut this time. The directorate of the association decided that over the past couple of years the industry has faced such atypical challenges that individual solutions have completely given way to collective ones. The only personal special nomination “For personal contribution to the development of the industry” was received by Konstantin Ernst. “It is more pleasant to receive a prize from one’s own than from strangers,” he remarked. And he reminded the audience that exactly 25 years ago, with the release of the series “Streets of Broken Lanterns”, the Russian, and not the Soviet, serial industry began. However, Mr. Ernst still left the merit of the birth of Russian box office cinema to himself and Timur Bekmambetov, remembering the success of Night Watch.
Other special nominations were collective. “For the heroism of the film crew in making films in hot spots” the award was given to the Triix Media film company. Movies that were made in such a heroic way were not listed for some reason. Another collective special prize “For the annual achievement of film records” was received by the YBW studio. The co-founder of the company, Aleksey Trotsyuk, went up for the prize, saying in front of the audience that colleagues and competitors had been waiting for a long time for them to quarrel: “But somehow we immediately decided that we would earn on success.”
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