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...Petersburg) mounted an exhibition of Filonov's extraordinary pictures - sometimes dark, at other times euphoric - that later traveled to Paris and Düsseldorf. After that there were only a couple of small shows in Russia, until last summer, when St. Petersburg's Russian Museum, assisted by Moscow-based Proactive PR, put together the most comprehensive exhibition of Filonov's work ever assembled. That show's stint in Moscow at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts' Museum of Private Collections has proved such a critical and popular success that it has been extended through March 12. "The show proved...
...Born into a poor working-class Moscow family and trained as an artist in St. Petersburg, Filonov was part of the singular explosion of avant-garde art that blossomed in early 20th century Russia from the likes of Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky, Supremacist Kasimir Malevich, Surrealist Marc Chagall and Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin. But Filonov never stayed with any school except his own, which he called "analytical art." It was in the eulogy to Filonov offered by the poet Alexei Kruchenykh, Futurism's major theoretician, that the exhibition's curators found their title, Witness of the Unseen...
...much) don't seem to understand is how little real change independence will bring to people's ordinary lives, and how many of the present problems will remain. Kosovo will not fly to Venus and Serbia to Mars, no matter what diplomats agree in New York City, Brussels and Moscow. The truly lasting solution will be reached only when Serbs and ethnic Albanians sit down together and work it out among themselves. That will not happen soon, but one day it will. Ahtisaari's plan, provided it survives its first contact with reality, could at least be a step toward...
...opportunities for people watching through expansive windows overlooking colorful Uritskogo Street-one of the city's main shopping drags-add plenty of seasoning. An added bonus is Arbatskii Dvorik, the cozy restaurant located upstairs from the café, which is named after the Arbat, a famous street in Moscow. As well as English menus, you'll find some decent wines there-a big plus in a country where "wine" tends to mean a cloying beverage that's almost unbearably sweet. The food is superior too: the chef delivers a genteel take on Russian home cooking. For sending e-mails over...
Then Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin, Russia got serious, and the Moscow-to-Zurich run lost its cachet...