Volume 53, Number 1 · January 12, 2006
An Affair of State
By Jamey Gambrell
Russia!
an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, September 16, 2005–January 11, 2006
Russia! Nine Hundred Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections
Catalog of the exhibition by Gerold Vzdornov, Sergei Androsov, and others
Guggenheim Museum, 426 pp., $75.00; $50.00 (paper)
Russia! Catalogue of the Exhibition
Guggenheim Museum, 80 pp., $24.95 (paper)
The Guggenheim Museum has promoted its current show, 'Russia!,' as 'the most comprehensive exhibition of Russian art ever shown in the United States.' 'With more than 275 objects,' according to the press release, 'this innovative exhibition features the greatest masterworks of Russian art from the thirteenth century to the present....' The first claim is certainly true. The only exhibition of comparable scope was 'Russian and Soviet Painting,' at the Metropolitan Mu-seum in 1977, which was a direct result of the Nixon–Brezhnev 'détente' communiqué of 1974.
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