On the Town: Check out Moving Vision, art of ’60s, ’70s By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record February 22, 2021
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
In spite of the recent snowstorm and record-cold temperatures in Oklahoma last week, it is an exciting time to visit one of Oklahoma City’s museums. Three of them launched interesting and major exhibits in the last week that you won’t want to miss.
I have already written about Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s “Ed Ruscha: OKLA” exhibit and will be writing more about the fascinating “Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World” at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
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A sweeping survey of Soviet kinetic art at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow has become one of the best critically received exhibitions to open this year in the Russian capital.
Future Lab: Kinetic Art in Russia (until 10 May) opened after the city came our of its second Covid-19 lockdown and explores the beginnings and influence of the post-war avant-garde movement.
The movement was regarded for a long time as a “marginal phenomenon” of 20th Russian art history, since it did not fit into the discourse of “conflict between art and authority”, says the exhibition curator Yulia Aksenova. “[It] neither spoke in the language of power, nor spoke out against it.” But it appears to have resonated with the museum-going public in today s Moscow.