Last week in the Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka there was a panel discussion about the Russian presence at the Venice Biennale. It centred on the ongoing criticism (IZO, IZO) directed by Ekaterina Degot and others at the curator of the Russian pavilion, Olga Sviblova. In the end, I'm told, Degot walked out of the discussion demonstratively while Sviblova was talking. Organiser Pierre Brochet deemed the event a great success.

I can't comment on who's right about the quality of curating at the Russian pavilion because I haven't seen it, but there'll be an opportunity to look at Degot's work in this field at the exhibition European Studio, for which she has headed a team of curators; the show opens at the Central House of the Artist on 8 July (CHA, in Russian).