Moscow Metro’s Mosaics Star In Performance Art Piece

In a 2am show at the Mayakovskaya station – comissioned by Stalin and opened in 1938 – “[the] stars of the evening were the mosaics in the soaring domes of the platform – a series of ovals of Soviet landmarks and heroes from the Kremlin and air force bombers to athletes and workers – the work of Alexander Deineka, one of the masters of Soviet modernism.”