Behind the Porous Curtain - Photography Exhibit

This exhibit showcases 18 works by Anatoly Pronin. These works capture the Soviet period of artistic inspiration of the 1970s, as the post-Stalin thaw opened a pathway through the iron curtain for modern Western art and culture to enter the Soviet Union.

Most of Pronin’s photographs were shot behind the theater curtain, capturing the private and almost intimate world of rehearsals with iconic figures such as George Balanchine, Roland Petit, Laurent Terzieff, and Marcel Marceau.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, Jan 31st, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Harriman Atrium at Columbia University, 12th floor IAB, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY

Monday, January 23 – Saturday, March 10, 2012

Curator: Regina Khidekel, Founder & Director of the Russian American Cultural Center

2nd Israeli-Russian Film Festival in NYC

Russian American Cultural Center's Second Israeli-Russian Film Festival.

Sunday, December 11, 2011, 11:30 AM -7:30 PM, Tribeca Film Center, 375 Greenwich Street, NYC.

2011 Festival Honorees, Israeli film directors Lina and Slava Chaplin will present the latest film Weeping Susannah, acclaimed Paper Snow, and a controversial documentary on the radical anti-Zionist stream in ultra- orthodoxy Yoel, Israel and Pashkavills. The program also includes The Loners by Renen Schorr, the fierce story of two Russian speaking Golani soldiers; and a World premiere of a documentary by Galina Kalashnikova and Svetlana Portnyansky Resort Terezinbad: the Life of Vacationists about one of the most sophisticated and cynical deception of the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Q&A sessions, Panel Discussion, Reception will follow. More info