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...Little wonder. The 138 paintings and drawings, most of them selected from some 300 of Filonov's works donated by his sister Yevdokiya Glebova to the Russian Museum in 1977, open a window into the disturbing and intriguing world of a mysterious 20th century genius...
...along with more than 800,000 other victims who starved during the Nazi siege of Leningrad; his faded artistic prominence was enough to secure him no more than a grave of his own. His works resurfaced only under Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika reform when in 1988 the State Russian Museum in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) mounted an exhibition of Filonov's extraordinary pictures - sometimes dark, at other times euphoric - that later traveled to Paris and Düsseldorf. After that there were only a couple of small shows in Russia, until last summer, when St. Petersburg's Russian Museum, assisted...
...Filonov's career peaked in late 1929, when the Russian Museum organized his personal exhibition - and crashed just weeks later in early 1930, when the authorities decided first not to open the exhibition to the public, and then to disband it altogether as undesirable. Filonov managed to present his works only twice more in collective Leningrad artists' exhibits. Then Communist Party authorities orchestrated a vicious press campaign depicting him as a hostile element to the ideals of the revolution. Filonov became a nonperson in a country less interested in "analytical art" than in the triumphant certainties of Socialist Realism...
...future as 2057. If Krieger were to assume the role of BRA director, a Harvard-affiliate would have influence over the city of Boston’s plan for the Allston campus as well as its own. Currently, Krieger serves on the Design Review Committee for the Allston art museum and science complex projects. He also has served on the committee that selected the architectural firm to design the latter. “I would think that would be a very significant conflict of interest,” Allston resident and self-described community activist Tim McHale said...
...Rather, despite the pizzazz the colorful walls suggest, the curators have presented the Social Museum quite plainly and un-critically, relying on the patterns, details, and idiosyncrasies of the individual photographs to carry the show. For some people, this may be enough, but others may feel either underwhelmed or unchallenged. No one, however, will be fooled by the paint...