“So, why would Sotheby’s think that anyone would pay millions of dollars for a 19th-Century silk flag that, unlike Custer and his charges, survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn? And why would the Detroit Institute of Arts decide to sell it now after 115 years of stewardship?”
Tag: 06.25.10
Obsolete Soviet Collective Farm Now Thrives As Art Workshop
When the kolkhoz at Nikola-Lenivets, a few hours south of Moscow, dissolved along with the old Soviet Union, people there were left without work and spent their days with vodka. Then a group of artists and architects led by Nikolai Polissky began employing the villagers – first to build art projects and subsequently to make commercial art objects as well.