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Opening a gallery in London is an ambitious decision, bordering on recklessness , – says Igor Markin, collector and founder of the first private museum of contemporary art, ART4 Museum in Moscow. This is exactly the kind of recklessness he…

Born in 1960, British composer George Benjamin began composing at the age of seven. In 1976 he entered the Paris Conservatoire to study with Messiaen, after which he worked with Alexander Goehr at King’s College, Cambridge. When he was only…

Back in 1999, Zygmunt Bauman told us that we were living in ‘liquid modernity’ where certain institutions, boundaries, and social pressures are receding or dying out. He marked a new time, that of fluidity, displacement, constant instability and uncertainty of…