The New Russian Money
The unofficial art movement of the old Soviet Union was formed by an absence of market. Glasnost changed all that.
Oct 1993
The unofficial art movement of the old Soviet Union was formed by an absence of market. Glasnost changed all that.
Jan 1993
Kochelev was indeed among that original group of visionaries for whom communism meant the glorious equality of all men.
Sep 1992
Kabakov takes you by the hand and leads you from the oppressions of the world to the freedom within yourself.
Jan 1992
Where Lenin used to lie, there is now a space occupied half by the czar (long may he live) and half by the Profit Motive.
Nov 1991
Russian culture is, traditionally, exuberantly child-oriented and unabashedly kitschy... Kitsch at its best is only the glorious overrichness and brightness of childhood ...
Nov 1991
Heiner Bastian surrounds himself with work by artists he knows.
Nov 1991
The market is beginning to limit itself to the bounds of reason, and it is slowly becoming less speculative.
Jul 1991
An account of Sotheby's 1988 sale of contemporary Soviet art, adapted from "The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost."
Feb 1991
On the xenophobia of the British art establishment.
Aug 1990
He is equally fascinated by the technical detail of the scientific event taking place and by the confused, distracted, and astonished responses of the audience.