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1. Sewing Images

Over the past few years, Petersburgers have been noticing small pieces of fabric with skillfully made embroidery on the streets of the city.

Tags: dissent, art, city
2. The Power of the Zine

Artist Anna Dial uses updated samizdat methods to publish her "zines" and avoid censorship. 

Tags: censorship, art, samizdat
3. Theater Directors Face More Detention

The trial of Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk has been postponed yet again. 

Tags: art, law, dissent, theater
4. The Mural Stronger than Buenos Aires Police

Russian artists painting a Navalny mural in Buenos Aires were interrupted by police after multiple complaints.

Tags: russians abroad, art, police, navalny, Argentina
5. Russian Artists Crash the Pompidou

Russian artists brought unauthorized performance art to Paris's biggest contemporary art museum. 

Tags: anti-war, dissent, performance art, france, art
6. Centennial Celebration of Avant-Garde Art

A century after it first opened, the Jewish Museum in Moscow recreated an exhibit of Jewish avant-garde artists from Chagall to Shterenberg. 

Tags: avant garde, jewish history, art
7. Words from Behind the Glass Box

A playwright and a theater director were arrested for a play criticizing ISIS. After months in jail, they spoke from their defendants' glass box.

Tags: dissent, women, art, theater, political prisoners
8. A Criminal Doll

An artist was arrested while fleeing to Kazakhstan for the use of prison tattoos in his artwork.

Tags: Krasnoyarsk, political prisoners, tattoo, art, dissent
9. Up to Seven Years for Poetry

Russian poets were sentenced to prison for anti-war poems.

Tags: anti-war, russia file, art, law, dissent
10. Cards from Piter

A mother and daughter spread love and connection, one postcard at a time.

Tags: nonprofit, st. petersburg, art

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