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Hard Coal, Hard Times: The Social Realist Art of Nicholas Bervinchak

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

Art at the Institute is pleased to present an exhibition of etchings by American artist of Lemko ancestry, Nicholas Bervinchak (1903-1978). Executed mostly during the Great Depression and into the following decade, these prints document the miners, tools, working conditions, and family life surrounding the isolated anthracite coal mining towns (also known as patches) of northeast Pennsylvania. Please join us…

2019 Jordan Center Distinguished Lecture: Boris Groys

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

We will hear from NYU Global and Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies Boris Groys, who will speak about “The Cold War Between the Medium and the Message: Western Abstract Art vs. Socialist Realism.” It is well known that the Cold War was represented in the context of art by the conflict between Modernist, or, more precisely, abstract and figurative, realist…