The Bolshevik coup in Russia in 1917 is not a milestone for the Ukrainian avant-garde. Tetiana Filevska, an art historian and creative director of the Ukrainian Institute, wrote a letter to the ...
War and revolution often spur in artists visions of radical change. That's what happened in early 20th-century Europe when the Great War and Russian Revolution uprooted life for millions. From the ...
When art collecting brothers Ron and Roger Pollard purchased a handful of paintings at an online auction in 2004, they had no idea what they were in for. The pieces, bought from a seller in Germany, ...
Organized for tour by International Arts & Artists, Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde is a didactic collection of 77 works, including paintings, photographs, graphics, and sculptures ...
Four years before the revolt that overturned Russia’s political order, the painter Mikhail Larionov called for likeminded Muscovites to spurn convention and affect what we might today call “hipster ...
Catalog of an exhibition held 1980-1981at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- ...
It may be a lazy critic cliché to write that an artist’s life was itself a work of art, but we are dealing with a man who let a wounded stork convalesce in his bed while he slept on the floor. As a ...
"In 2010 the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver director Adam Lerner did something unheard of in the museum world: he mounted a large exhibition of paintings without first knowing whether they were ...
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian gallery says one of its security guards has vandalized an avant-garde painting on loan from the country's top art repository by drawing eyes on the picture's deliberately ...