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...little response from the churchmen until he mentioned Paul Tillich, whose name elicited a smile and a comment from one listener, a Russian Orthodox archbishop and professor at the Leningrad Theological Academy...
...roundupmanship: with the help of Mme. Kandinsky and Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne, he engineered delicate negotiations with Moscow, bringing seven paintings in the show from Russia, on loan from Moscow's Municipal Museum of Modern Western Art, the Russian Museum in Leningrad, and the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow, all dating from the pre-1914 period of Kandinsky's transition from nice painter to artistic revolutionary. When the giant retrospective closes in Manhattan this spring, it will travel to Paris, The Hague and Basel, and another show organized by the Guggenheim (minus...
Since the Kremlin's sharpest barbs these days are aimed at modern art and "Western espionage," it was just a matter of time before the KGB's cops would turn up a victim whose wrongdoings combined both evils. He turned out to be a Leningrad physics teacher whose taste for abstract painting allegedly led him to join the U.S. spy service...
Police said they first spotted the teacher, one Rudolf Friedman, as he muttered uncomplimentary remarks about socialist realism while strolling through Leningrad's Russian Museum. A well-dressed U.S. tourist approached him, enthusiastically shared his sentiments, and promised to send Friedman reproductions of avant-garde paintings from America. The picture Friedman liked best, said the cops indignantly, was a "chaos of black, red and blue splotches captioned / Need You Tonight." Soon, they said, the teacher was getting messages from the U.S. written in invisible ink. Just as Friedman prepared to deliver information "very remote from theoretical arguments about abstract...
Share & Share Alike. Closer to provincial university life are Leningrad's seven Americans, who live two or three to a room in a far seedier dormitory 15 minutes from the campus. They get a real taste of the Russian passion for sharing food, clothes, books-almost everything except toothbrushes. They also get a close look at the Russian mind. One observation is that Russian students almost never adorn their rooms with pictures of Marx, Lenin or Khrushchev; another is that they are far less interested in cold-war quarreling than in hot questioning about U.S. music, literature and living...