Mark Konecny shares unexpected history of Russian art in America

Ilaria Parogni Wednesday, October 7th, 2015

On Sept. 18, 2015, the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia welcomed Mark Konecny, Associate Director and Curator of the archives and library of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture, for the first installment of its Colloquium Series. During the event, titled “The Creation of a Market for Russian Art in America,” Konecny talked about his most recent endeavors: an exhibition of Russian artists who participated in the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and the establishment of a related digital humanities project.

Don’t Let the Transvestite Drive the Bus?

Eliot Borenstein Friday, January 9th, 2015

Dear President Putin and Prime Minister Medvedev,

I quit.

Separatism and the Russian Solution: Baja California, here we come!

David Rainbow Thursday, September 18th, 2014

Everyone’s afraid of the separatists these days; they’re messing up countries all over the place.

All the Russias in today’s Huffington Post!

Eliot Borenstein Friday, February 14th, 2014

The Russian government has gotten back into the story business. This is bad news for people who like to tell stories of their own, but good news for people who like to tell the same old stories.

Diaspora? What’s in It for the Russian Field?

Yanni Kotsonis Friday, February 8th, 2013

It was a fascinating start to the Jordan Center’s Diasporas series which was held jointly with Glicksman Ireland House at NYU on 31 January – 1 February 2013.

What counts as corruption?

Nicole Disser Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

It would be difficult to argue that the Russian political system is squeaky clean. However, the ways in which the media defines corruption are skewed to classify what may be elements of long embedded cultural practices within Russian political cultural as injustices that necessarily need adjusting.

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