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The Ironic Curtain at CMA Frames Soviet Underground Art
Columbia Museum of Art presents The Ironic Curtain: Art from the Soviet Underground through Sept 12. The show pairs defiant works by dissidents like Oleg Vassiliev and Leonid Sokov with context on censorship and exile, highlighting humor and critique of stagnation under Brezhnev.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Soviet Union
Columbia Museum of Art
CMA
Oleg Vassiliev
Vassiliev
Erik Bulatov
Bulatov
Mayakovsky Square
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Moscow
Tenis Mirzashvili
Nikita Khrushchev
General Assembly
United Nations
Leonid Sokov
Sokov
Leonid Brezhnev