Tag: Russian Art

Hermitage deputy director placed under house arrest

Mikhail Novikov, the deputy director of Saint Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, has been put under house arrest after a Moscow court charged him with suspected fraud in connection with construction projects at the museum, Sophia Kishkovsky of the Art Newspaper reports. The case may be part of a larger scandal involving the embezzlement of roughly $2…
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8th April 2017
Imagine Moscow at the Design Museum

Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution, the Design Museum’s Imagine Moscow exhibition explores Moscow as it was imagined by a bold new generation of architects and designers in the 1920s and early 1930s. Drawing on rarely seen material, Imagine Moscow presents an idealistic vision of the Soviet capital that was never realised. Large-scale architectural…
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6th March 2017
Revolution: Russian Art opens at Royal Academy

One hundred years on from the Russian Revolution, this powerful exhibition explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through the lens of its groundbreaking art. Renowned artists including Kandinsky, Malevich, Chagall and Rodchenko were among those to live through the fateful events of 1917, which ended centuries of Tsarist rule and…
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9th February 2017