Tag: Russian avant-garde

Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922

By sidestepping radical abstraction and highlighting the quixotic figurative work of Chagall, this exhibition foregrounds the revolution’s potential to bring joy, sex and playfulness into people’s lives apart from political propaganda, utopianism and promises of a better life
Nevermore: Leonid Lamm, Selected Works

This retrospective of the artist, who died last year, shows the brilliance, courage and impeccable work ethic that made Lamm such an important figure in postwar Russian and American art
Skythian baba: A painting counter-revolution

Natalia Goncharova: The Russian Years. Russian Museum, Benois Wing, St. Petersburg. From 25 April to 15 July, 2002.