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...played were all rife with dramatic crescendos, the show as a whole formed an overarching crescendo in both performance complexity and tone.The concert marked the second performance of HRO’s 199th season and featured three powerful pieces, one of which included twin guest performers Emily and Julia Bruskin of the well-reputed Claremont Trio. The night’s exciting undercurrent was palpable as the audience filed into the theater’s 1166 seats and cheered more boisterously than usual for the black-clad performers as they warmed up under the watchful statues of James Otis...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Twins Wow in 'Double Concerto' with HRO | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...auction of Soviet contemporary art held, amid vast hype, by Sotheby's in Moscow last July was seen by the West as a vindication of dissident artists but by many of the artists themselves as divisive and even dispiriting. Some lots went for unheard-of sums; the painter Grisha Bruskin, whose work had been comfortably selling in America for just over $40,000, saw a large multipanel piece called Fundamental Lexicon go for $415,000, an event that caused much skeptical talk both inside and outside the ministry. Landscapes by Svetlana Kopystiansky, and her husband Igor's assemblages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Canvases of Their Own | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...David Juda of London's Annely Juda Gallery, one of a growing number of Western dealers specializing in Russian art. Several other Rodchenko works drew high bids, including the cubist-inspired Composition, 1916. The second highest price of $ the sale, however, was fetched by a contemporary Soviet artist, Grisha Bruskin, 43, who has been harassed by the KGB for displaying his paintings to foreigners. An anonymous buyer paid $416,000 for his Fundamental Lexicon, a witty but inconsequential series of 32 panels depicting statues of ordinary citizens in heroic poses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beyond The Wildest Expectations | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...sale was a stupendous windfall for Bruskin and other living artists, some of whom could scarcely show their work two years ago and still have to scrounge for materials and studio space. They will receive 60% of the auction prices -- 10% in pounds that they can use abroad and the rest in so-called gold rubles, which have up to five times the purchasing power of ordinary rubles. (The Soviet state will get 32%, and Sotheby's the remaining 8%.) Two relative unknowns, Svetlana Kopystiansky and her husband Igor, were stunned as Pop Singer Elton John put in a winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beyond The Wildest Expectations | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...trading scandal] is a pretty immediate thing right here," said second-year student Scott N. Bruskin. "But there is sort of a lid on it. It hasn't come up in the classroom environment." Bruskin said that his professor for a Management Policy and Practice class ignored students' requests to talk about the Boesky case rather than hold the scheduled case-study discussion...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: Trying to Mix Ethics and Big Bucks | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

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