Tag: Russia

  • Treasures of Ukraine – book review

    This book chronicles Ukraine’s rich cultural heritage even as the war with Russia threatens the very existence of its collections and the buildings that hold them, with 21 museums already damaged

  • Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow – book review

    This fascinating book is as much about the history of Stalinist Russia as it is about Boris Iofan, the architect whose grand buildings defined the era, yet whose work was so closely tied to the dictator’s whims

  • Natalia Goncharova

    This landmark retrospective highlights the breathtaking variety of Goncharova’s output, from religious painting to Russian folk art to designs for French fashion houses and costumes for the Ballets Russes

  • Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test

    Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! joins an effort by progressive cultural institutions to mark the centenary of the October Revolution, an event that shook the world

  • Köken Ergun: ‘In Turkey, the image of the soldier has been victimised by Erdoğan’

    The Turkish film-maker talks about his 2005 video I, Soldier, and its relevance to the political situation in his country today

  • Deimantas Narkevičius: 20 July 2015

    In the Lithuanian artist’s latest exhibition, contrasting public reaction to the dismantling of communist public sculptures in his homeland are examined in two video works

  • Marc Chagall: A Retrospective (1908-1985)

    The long career of a colourful chameleon, Russian-born artist Marc Chagall, is shown off in more than 200 works on loan from over 20 collections

  • Primrose: Early Colour Photography in Russia

    From austere family portraits of the 1860s to Rodchenko’s Stalinist propaganda posters and the subversive underground images of the 1960s and 70s, this elegant Photographers’ Gallery exhibition takes us through a century of Russia’s history

  • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

    Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 14 July-5 November 2006 ‘Beyond the Palace Walls: Islamic Art from the State Hermitage Museum’ is a very timely collaboration for the Edinburgh Festival 2006 between the Royal Museum in Edinburgh and the State Hermitage…

  • 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…