Museum Watch Group Decries Ousting of Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery Director, Warns of ‘Loss of Art Autonomy’
The Russian culture ministry replaced the director with someone more in line with the state's "spiritual and moral values."
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Russian Ministry of Culture Replaces Tretyakov Gallery General Director Zelfira Tregulova
State authorities recently called on the museum to fall in line with Russian "spiritual and moral values."
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Russian Culture Ministry Demands That Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery Align with State ‘Spiritual and Moral Values’
The ministry's letter was prompted by a complaint reportedly submitted by a visitor.
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Avant-Garde Fairy Tales: Russian Avant-Garde Research Project Seeks to Untangle Facts, Fakes, and Fictions
Scandals have never been in short supply in the world of Russian avant-garde art, but the last few years have seen a bumper crop, with the controversial arrest of a respected Russian curator on
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Morning Links: Guggenheim Edit-a-thon Edition
Timothy Rodgers, director of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, will be stepping down this month after a six-year tenure. [Artforum] Police searched Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow…
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High Court Drama: Scholars, Christie’s, and the Russian Oligarch
A judge decided it was a fake, but some scholars say that a Russian painting sold at Christie's is genuine
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Protecting Goncharova’s Legacy
Alarmed by a proliferation of fakes—and books that promote them as real—Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery has appealed to the Russian government for help.
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The Faking of the Russian Avant-Garde
With invented provenances, unreliable certificates of authenticity, and "rediscovered" works by artists who are lost to history, forgers are flooding galleries and auction houses with Russian…
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Sex, Money, Glamour, Tractors
Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov are charting new terrain by using the language of Socialist Realism to comment on contemporary Russia.
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