Tag: Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

  • Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932

    The fascinating and expansive exhibition provides an intriguing and rare insight into the dialogue between art and politics, the individual and the state, freedom of expression and the pull of ideology

  • 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…

  • To the Finland Station and Back: RUSSIA!

    RUSSIA!, The Guggenheim Museum, New York 16 September 2005-11 January 2006 Russia is not accessible to reason and cannot be measured with a yardstick; Russia is a special country that can only be taken on faith. Fedor Tyutchev (1803-73) The…