Conference: "Art & Ideology: 100 years since the October Revolution"

From Russia to Greece with Love

Soviet Posters | The Museum of Russian Art | Russian Art + Culture The exhibition Soviet Posters from TMORA Collection brings together approximately sixty works by Soviet artists from the 1940s-1980.

Radical chic: Avant-garde fashion design in the Soviet 1920s Fashion experiments of the 1920s: Stepanova’s textile patterns, Popova’s sportswear, Tatlin’s workgear, and Mukhina’s general wardrobe advice.

"When I came to Russia I understood for the first time that architecture was not about making shapes, or making buildings even, but that it was a profession that could define the content of society and it could intervene in shaping society. So it’s a very, in a way, ambitious interpretation of architecture, but when I saw the work of Russian architects of the 20s and 30s, I understood that that was their essence, that architecture was a way of scriptwriting, but with buildings rather than words."

Rem Koolhaas: ‘Beauty can give you a false sense of existential security’ The founder of OMA sits down with the veteran Russian-American journalist Vladimir Pozner for an extensive interview about the legacy of Soviet modernism, the city of the future, and post-human architecture.

Μυστικά κι ανθρώπινες ιστορίες της Ρωσικής Πρωτοπορίας Λίγες ημέρες έμειναν ακόμα για την έκθεση «Θεσσαλονίκη. Η Συλλογή Γιώργου Κωστάκη. Restart», από τις σημαντικότερες του καλοκαιριού. Στο κτίριο του 19ου αιώνα της Μονής ...

Contradictions in Russian Cultural Politics: Conservatism as an Instrument of Neoliberalism | Lefteast Note from the editors: The following piece is scheduled to appear in the edited collection The Art of Civil Action, edited by Philipp Dietachmair and Pascal Gielen and published through Valiz in November 2017.

[SUMMERTIME] από τη συλλογή Γιώργου Κωστάκη του Κρατικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης / State Museum of Contemporary Art
Περισσότερα για τα τρέχοντα, εδώ https://goo.gl/4R2j3R
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Summer breeze by the Costakis collection!
More on the current shows, here https://goo.gl/N5MnGQ

φωτ. Κλιουν Ιβάν, Παραλία στο Γκουρζούφ, 1923
photo: Ivan Kliun, Waterfront in Gurzuf, 1923

Have you already checked our "Utopian Soviet Buildings" VR tours? Well, you now have an opportunity to revisit the hypothetical Moscow as we are inviting you for a walk alongside the Tverskoy Boulevard to explore some of the most prominent Avant-garde buildings!

You will see the tremendous horizontal skyscrapers created by El Lissitsky that were to mark the intersections of the boulevards and radial streets, the futuristic music theatre by Moisei Ginsburg, the author of the world-famous Narkomfin Building, and discover how the newspapers' headquarters were not only showcasing the architectural thought but also turned out to be exceptional examples of visual propaganda.

You will learn about the origins of the Avant-garde, its key figures and ideas.

What did Malevich have to do with architecture? Who was the first to conceive a rotating building? How long did Avant-garde last? We will look into these questions and more!

Book your private journey to the Soviet roaring twenties on: https://www.archigeek.ru/tailor-made-tours

Συνέδριο "Τέχνη και Ιδεολογία: ο Μάης του '68"
Παράταση για υποβολή περιλήψεων έως 29 Ιουλίου 2018

At least a dozen books and pamphlets on the Komsomol in the 1920s have been added to the open electronic collection of the State Public Historical Library in the first half of July (in Russian; scroll down the page).
http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/indexes/values/114593