Museum of Russian Icons

Visual Arts Review: Red Writ Large — Soviet Propaganda from the Cold War Era

July 11, 2014
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Darker Shades of Red focuses on the Soviet Union’s creation of internal propaganda, its array of striking posters aimed at keeping those in the Motherland and the satellites in line.

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Visual Arts Essay: Gods in the Gallery — A Visit to the Museum of Russian Icons

April 10, 2012
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If the icon is both a window into the mystical experience of the painter and a door allowing the saint to come into the believer’s world, am I, unbeliever that I am, hoping to stand in the line of sight, to see what I can intercept of this uncanny conversation?

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