Archive for September, 2013

The Cover of 'Viktor Popkov' by Pyotr Kozorezenko

New Book published in English on ‘Severe Style’ artist Viktor Popkov

Sep 25th, 2013 | By

A new book has just been published by the Unicorn Press in English on the post-war ‘Severe Style’ artist Viktor Popkov. in the 1960’s a group of pioneering artists such as Nikolai Andronov, Geli Korzhev, Viktor Popkov, Pavel Nikonov, Pyotr Ossovski, Victor Ivanov and Tair Salahov rejected the happy cheerful subject matter of Socialist Realism,
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Viewers examined works presented by a number of prominent Moscow galleries at last year’s Art Moscow fair.

17th Art Moscow Fair opens with New Format

Sep 19th, 2013 | By

  Moscow Times 17 September 2013 | Issue 5215 By D. Garrison Golubock   Art Moscow Viewers examined works presented by a number of prominent Moscow galleries at last year’s Art Moscow fair. When the Art Moscow fair first opened 17 years ago, it was truly a one of a kind event, a fair intended to bring together foreign and Russian galleries,
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After Christie’s record sale, why are auction prices hitting new heights?

Sep 5th, 2013 | By

  Above: Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman with Flowered Hat went for $56 million at the recent modern art sales In a recent article, the New York Times declared that the US Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, is now a major patron of the art market. Indeed, there seems little doubt that the Fed’s policy of quantitative
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