Tag: Anna Akhmatova

Chechu Álava – interview: ‘We painters are like relay runners who pass the baton to each other to continue the race’

Álava explains how her passion for art history and her interest in gender issues blend together in her work, how she honours the memory of previously forgotten women by presenting them with love and, by doing so, hopes to provide…
Rediscovering the Silver Age of Russian Art

Mir Iskusstva: Russia’s Age of Elegance Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey 25 February-11 June 2006 While the recent, ambitious ‘RUSSIA!’ show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York was a bit thin on the artists associated with the Ballets…