ВашингтонПост назвала Капкова “good KGB guy” ))) If the Moscow arts community sees a “good KGB guy” in the establishment, it’s city culture minister Sergei Kapkov, who has said his main goal is promoting “tolerance” in the arts and who views the moves against Teatr.doc with disdain. “It’s just a game. It’s an ongoing game,” he said in an interview, adding that although Teatr.doc would be kicked out of its space, the production company would survive. “It’s just an attempt to influence something that someone feels they have the power to influence.” But at the national level, machinations against artistic dissidence are having an impact. This past spring, the Russian government changed the membership of national expert councils advising funding decisions on the arts, replacing established practitioners such as the director of Teatr.doc with lesser-known critics and writers. Russian art newspaper Kultura summed up the moves as a message that “modern art can be dangerous for the health of Russians.” The political climate is so chilly that last month, organizers pulled the plug on Russia’s longest-running international contemporary art fair, Art Moscow. That followed the 2013 firing of Russia’s most famous contemporary art curator, Marat Guelman, after he refused to censor an art exhibit poking fun at the then-upcoming Winter Olympic Games. washingtonpost/world/europe/dissident-russian-artists-getting-squeezed-by-political-pressure/2014/10/22/e8b78f75-5062-4438-9014-e2602f18d02d_story.html
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