Latest Past Events

Painters, the Art Market, and Images of Female Beauty in Russia, 1830-1860 (with Margaret Samu)

This event will be held as a Zoom meeting: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/99102207490.   Russian painters of the mid-nineteenth century faced a difficult art market. Even the most talented of them—trained as history painters to produce large-scale canvases of biblical and historical subjects—found little demand for such works from the church or the state after finishing their training. Meanwhile, the number of artists…

Exoticism Abroad: Vasilii Polenov and Ilia Repin’s Visual Experimentations with Ethnic and Racial Difference in Paris (with Maria Taroutina and Discussant Nathaniel Knight)

Join us for another installment of the 19v Seminar Series! Vasilii Polenov and Ilia Repin’s three-year sojourn in Paris from 1873 to 1876 as pensioners of the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts has long been the subject of considerable interest among Russian and Western scholars alike. To date, most investigations into this topic have centered on their formative encounter…

Petrykivka: A Ukrainian Folk Phenomenon and Living Tradition

Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York

April 8 – 30, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 8, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. In time for spring rejuvenation and celebration, Art at the Institute is pleased to present Petrykivka: A Ukrainian Folk Phenomenon and Living Tradition, an exhibition of 47 spirited paintings from the collection of Natalie Pawlenko and Yuri Mischenko. Shown for the first time at The…