The sculptor's closest friends came to say goodbye to the sculptor Ernst Neizvestny in the memorial hall at the Frank Campbell funeral home in Manhattan. No official speeches - Ernst Neizvestny himself asked for this. The sculptor's relatives accepted words of condolences. Wife Anna Graham abstained from...

I worked all day on new material - an interesting and rich conversation with the Russian poet Bakhyt Kenzheev. In the evening I decided to take a break, the FB news feed helpfully threw up a recording of a conversation between my good friend, cultural scientist Solomon Volkov, with very mediocre and undistinguished professional restraint...