Moscow To Complete Its Own ‘Museum Mile’ Next Year

When the contemporary-art space GES2 (designed by Renzo Piano) is completed in 2019, “it will be possible to visit the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts on the north side of the Moscow River before walking over Patriarchy Bridge to GES2 on Bolotny Island. From here people can stroll to the Tretyakov Gallery on the south side of the water and finish up at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Gorky Park.”

Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.16.18

Baby Steps
Over the last eighteen months I have begun to put greater emphasis on the need for (and advantages of) simplicity and gradualism in beginning community engagement efforts. … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2018-01-16

Pay-to-Play? Maezawa Bankrolls Brooklyn Museum Show of His $110.5-Million Basquiat
Should a museum accept money from a private collector to show a work (or works) from his personal collection? Unless the work in question has been promised to the museum, such arrangements reek of pay-to-play, … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2018-01-16

America’s Most Exceptional Orchestra
Setting aside PostClassical Ensemble, the guerrilla DC chamber orchestra I co-founded fourteen years ago, the most exceptional American orchestra I know is the South Dakota Symphony. South Dakota’s “Copland and Mexico” festival, which concluded last … read more
AJBlog: Unanswered Question Published 2018-01-16

Tracking Everyday Mysteries
RoseAnne Spradlin’s at New York Live Arts, January 13 and 14. … read more
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Marlene VerPlanck Is Gone
From New York comes news that the singer Marlene VerPlanck died today at 84. She reportedly had pancreatic cancer but managed to keep the illness a secret from nearly everyone. … read more
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