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Ragnar Kjartansson work that was withdrawn from show at Moscow s GES-2 House of Culture goes on sale at Frieze

The work was deaccessioned after the artist cancelled the exhibition in protest at the war in Ukraine

Valerie Mindlin at the opening of the GES-2 House of Culture

“WHO THE FUCK told you to put up the barricades?! They look terrible! Remove those barricades NOW!” I am eating breakfast at KHLEB-2, GES-2's in-house bakery, half an hour prior to the official opening’s scheduled time. So high are the histrionics that I momentarily wonder if I’m witnessing some kind of special guerilla performance portion of the inaugural program. Housed in a historic power station just across the Moskva River from the Kremlin, the serially-delayed GES-2 House of Culture represents the crowning jewel and biggest permanent footprint of the V-A-C Foundation’s international, and

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