July 01, 2017 The Museum of Freedom By Natalya Beskhlebnaya On St. Petersburg’s Revolution Highway there is a museum devoted to collecting and preserving the elusive and controversial art forms of graffiti and street art. Art
March 06, 2017 Better Russia By Robert Blaisdell Bob Blaisdell reviews Other Russias, an album of images and impressions of ordinary, unconnected Russian citizens who have unexpectedly found themselves activists. Art Culture Literature Politics
March 01, 2017 Bid for the Best Backfires By Marie Betteley A decade before the fall of tsarism, a little-known auction was held to sell off some of the crown jewels. Was it rigged? Art History
January 25, 2017 Titan of the Russian Forest: An Ivan Shishkin Art Gallery By Alice E.M. Underwood Today marks the 185th birthday of the artist Ivan Shishkin, whose paintings evoke Russia's beauty and vastness. With a nickname like "Forest Tsar," his trees must be good. Art Culture History
January 07, 2017 The Good, the Bad, and the Middling By Alexander Mozhayev A tour of ten distinctive Moscow monuments that goes a long way to summarizing the state of the art in Russia today. Art History
January 01, 2017 Culture Clash By The Editors Leading lights (and some not so leading) clash over the scope of government interference in the arts. Art
December 05, 2016 "We invented and changed the world": A Rodchenko Art Gallery By Alice E.M. Underwood Photographer, painter, designer, and more, Alexander Rodchenko (born December 5, 1891) worked at the intersection of innovative art and radical politics. Here are 14 of his works. Art Culture History Photography
December 04, 2016 Abstraction Turns 150: A Vasily Kandinsky Art Gallery By Alice E.M. Underwood Vasily Kandinsky was a renowned abstract artist whose shapes and colors revolutionized twentieth-century modernist art. Here are 11 of his paintings in honor of his 150th. Art Culture History
September 01, 2016 Art Takes a Village By Nadezhda Grebennikova The 11th International Festival of Landscape Art, Arkhstoyanie, took place on July 23-24 in Kaluga Oblast. We sent Nadezhda Grebennikova and Mikhail Mordasov to take a look. Art
July 25, 2016 Vasnetsov, Painter and Planet: An Art Gallery By Alice E.M. Underwood July 25 is the 155th birthday of Apollinary Vasnetsov, who is both a renowned painter of medieval Russia and a fixture in the night sky. Art Culture History
June 16, 2016 Rudolf Nureyev's Great Leap to Freedom By Alice E.M. Underwood Ballet great Rudolf Nureyev leapt out of Soviet jurisdiction and into the wider world of Western ballet on June 16, 1961. His leap was as much a political move as a dance move. Art Culture History Politics
April 20, 2016 Piter's Five Must-Stroll Streets (that are not Nevsky) By Elena Bobrova After you finish strolling St. Petersburg's Nevsky Prospect, you'll want to visit these five must-stroll streets in the Northern Palmyra, to get a feel for the rest of the city. Art Culture Literature Travel