The story of Pop we have been told so far is that this was an art movement which emerged in the 50s in Britain and exploded few years later in the US. Its Anglo-Saxon spirit was canonised  by the first attempts to define the movement, notoriously by Lucy Lippard’s...

Dubossarsky and Vinogradov In the middle of 1990-s, amid the ruins of the Soviet system, pepped up by the breeze of unlimited freedom, two men set out to build up a New Russian Paradise. Two decades later they ascended to the Olympus of the most expensive living...

Anatoly Osmolovsky If there had to be chosen a work of art which now, a century after ‘Black Square’ by Malevich, would represent the avant-garde of Russian contemporary art, ‘Bread Series’ by Anatoly Osmolovsky could be the one. Hand painted ‘Black Square’, when...

Limit of Bearable Lately our eyes have been trained by mass media to become immune to the images of pain, violence, victims of terror and refugee crisis, corpses of children included. Daily portion of suffering is served for breakfast by a morning postman and is...