Paintings by Elena Kalman: Catastrophe and What Survives

Paintings by Elena Kalman: Catastrophe and What Survives presents recent works by Ukrainian-born artist Elena Kalman that reflect on moments of disruption and what endures beyond them Kalman’s paintings depict landscapes, roads, and imagined environments marked by instability, including falling trees, fractured structures, and distant explosions, alongside images of water, sky, and terrain that persist. […] Read more

Poster Art of the Soviet Era

Drawn from TMORA’s important collection of Soviet-era posters, this exhibition highlights the paradox of the Soviet poster: both breathtakingly artistic and unapologetically idealogical. Soviet artists used unique, bold, and instantly recognizable graphic language to reach a broad audience with politically correct messages. And as in many other national cultures, posters were active tools conveying ideologies […] Read more

Violins of Hope: Honoring Memory Through Music

Presented in partnership with the Minnesota JCC, the exhibition Violins of Hope is a global initiative that showcases restored violins played by Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. The Minnesota JCC brings these unique violins to communities of the Twin Cities through exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, and storytelling.   The collection  was established by violin-maker Amnon Weinstein (1939-2024) and […] Read more

Cats and Dogs in Soviet Art: Workers, Teachers, Friends

The Museum of Russian Art presents an exhibition of forty paintings featuring cats and dogs, on loan from The Raymond and Susan Johnson Collection of 20th Century Russian art and other private American collections. Thirteen of these have never been shown before and will be displayed in an American museum for the first time.  Painted by […] Read more

Spies and Space: Cold War Artifacts from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain

An exhibition by SuperMonster市City! and The Museum of Russian Art This exhibition features toys, games, posters, comic books, and other cultural artifacts on loan from SuperMonster市City! (SMC), developed in collaboration with TMORA using objects from its permanent and research collections. More than two hundred objects on display date to the Cold War era (1950s–1980s) and were produced on both sides […] Read more