I wrote a text on “ennobling portraiture” when a young man approached me. He turned out to be the son of the famous Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin. What could someone in his position find in my ideas about art, and what could I learn from him, from the other side of the war?

A conversation with Artur Dugin, painter Alexey Bevza, and philosopher Willem de Witte.Dugin is curator of the Moscow avant-garde collective Sovereign Art.

• Arthur's reading of Honeypot• Till Eulenspiegel and the fate of the jester from the 15th century Council of Basel into modernity• Artur’s traditionalism versus KIRAC’s view on the future of art• Who controls reality?• Artur’s metaphysics of the Russian state

Artur Dugin is also known as Dima Khvorostov — Twitter: @KhvorostovDimaAlexey Bevza: @bevzianstvoMonday, August 25, 2025, Runtime 61 minutes