Exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg, which is advisable to visit on New Year's holidays

THE ART NEWSPAPER RUSSIA chose the main exhibition New Year holidays, which will help you to use while away the long weekend.

The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, www.rusmuseum.ru

His version of the anniversary exhibition of the main Russian seascape at the Russian Museum. In composition, it will differ from the recent exhibition in Moscow, the Tretyakov Gallery. The exhibition will include 54 paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky from the Russian Museum, as well as works from the museums of Peterhof, Tsarskoye Selo, the Central Naval Museum and the Sea Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg. In short, St. Petersburg decided to celebrate the anniversary of Aivazovsky their own. Tireless fans of the artist can make a trip from Moscow to St. Petersburg, to admire another decent option Jubilee Exhibition.

The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, www.tretyakovgallery.ru

Works of classic non-conformist sculptor Leonid Sokov (p. 1941) introduced in the permanent exhibition of the Tretyakov Gallery in Krymsky Val. Dialogues classics of Sots Art with classical avant-garde, socialist realism and post-war art is always witty and daring. "Two of the leader after the rain", as popularly referred to as the most odious work of socialist realists Alexander Gerasimov, met Lenin and Giacometti, stump and bark objects stood in the hall with the Soviet rural landscape and Suprematist teapot-tank aims at the "Black Square". Specially for the exhibition in the exhibition made by Vasily Sokov favorite Vatagin, Alexander Matveyev, Zmitser Tsaplina and other local artists.

Pushkin Museum, Moscow, www.art-museum.ru

Last chance to see the first in Russia over the past half century a large exhibition of the finest of French Fauvism Albert Marquet (1875-1947), who wrote his landscapes from the window. Blue-gray, hazy views of Paris, misty seascapes, mysterious exotic Algeria - a total of 40 works from museums in Europe and Russia is surrounded by pictures of other French Fauves and Russian contemporary artists who have experienced the impact of the Marche: Tatiana Mavrina, Alexander Vedernikov and Nikolai Lapshin and others.

The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, www.hermitagemuseum.org

The exhibition of the Belgian artist Jan Fabre has found itself in the center of the scandal. Animal advocates called for its closure. Hermitage, in turn, strongly defends the freedom of creativity. The reason for the scandal became his stuffed animals exhibited in the halls of the permanent exhibition. If the exhibition will not be closed until the winter break, it makes sense to go and see with your own eyes. The grandson of famed entomologist Jan Fabre uses in his works fragments of already deceased animals: beetles shells, skeletons, horns and stuffed. However, none of the animals were not sacrificed on the altar of art, it was bought by the artist perfectly legal. Installations and objects Fabra enter into a dialogue with the artists of past eras and the present, works are kept in the Hermitage exhibition - from Snyders, Van Dyck and Rubens to Ilya Kabakov.

Museum of Contemporary Art "Garage", Moscow, www.garagemca.org

"Garage" from year to year is becoming more friendly to the children. Now they not only do not prohibit the rush, jump and climb on to the museum, but even created for them a special art project "Playground" - Moscow's version of The Playground Project, invented by the curator and urbanist Gabriela Burkhalter from Switzerland. In addition, in the museum's lobby is located the installation Syuchzhen Yin Chinese woman in a 12-meter pills, which can go into anyone.

Parents, while the children in the "playground", will have time to see the exhibition "Evidence" with works by Robert Longo, Sergei Eisenstein and Francisco Goya. Three such different artists of different eras combined concern for the fate of mankind.