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  • Objection! Protest by Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

    Objection! Protest by Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

    IT and I visited the Vitra Design Museum at Weil am Rhein in April 2016. It is a beautiful, well-designed (duh), starchitect-built campus – more about this place in future posts. From 26.02 – 29.05.2016, in a free-standing gallery next to the museum,  the exhibition titled “Objection! Protest by Design” was held. The exhibition presented a

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  • Russian art in Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, part 3

    Russian art in Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, part 3

    In these few posts, I am putting up photos of Russian art on display in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (Третьяковская галерея на Крымском Валу) – a branch of the State Tretyakov Gallery. Click to see Part 1 and Part 2. This section includes art from the period after the 1920’s. According to the museum guide, this generation of artist

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  • Russian art in Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, part 2

    Russian art in Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, part 2

    In the next few posts, I will put up photos of Russian modern art that are on display in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (Третьяковская галерея на Крымском Валу) – a branch of the State Tretyakov Gallery. This is part 2, and part one is here. Kasimir Malevich – a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator

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  • Russian art in Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, part 1

    In this and the next five posts, I will put up photos of Russian art that are on view in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (Третьяковская галерея на Крымском Валу) – a branch of the State Tretyakov Gallery. As stated in an earlier post here, this gallery only exhibits 20th century Russian art. Vladimir Tatlin, “A model”, 1913.

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