Peace be with the family of Alexei Navalny

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing, so don’t be inactive.” – Alexei Navalny (1976-2024) Peace be with the family of Alexei Navalny and may peace someday come to Russia […] Read more

Portal to the Surreal: Vladimir Dikarev

Born in the post-WWII Soviet Union, on the shore of the Sea of Azov, Vladimir Dikarev received his training at the Uzhgorod Fine Arts College. Situated near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary, the thousand-year-old Uzhgorod is the westernmost of Ukraine’s regional centers. While at school, Vladimir combined his academic studies with his extracurricular interests in eastern and western philosophy, poetry, […] Read more

Say No to War: Political Cartoons by Ukrainian and Russian Artists – The 4th Iteration

This exhibition of antiwar political cartoons includes recent works by renowned cartoonists from Ukraine and Russia created in response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine. The exhibition is organized by TMORA in collaboration and partnership with Minnesota artist Andrey Feldshteyn, who has worked in the genre of political cartoons for four decades. At the beginning of the […] Read more

Zoran’s Surrealist Sculptures: Dry Neck of the Pig and Other Curios

A Yugoslavia-born sculptor, Zoran Mojsilov received his art education at the University of Belgrade, graduating in 1979, and later trained with the renowned Yugoslavian sculptor Matija Vuković. As a conscientious objector, he taught art at a military psychiatric hospital in 1981 and later went to Paris to escape the narrow confines and restrictions of the […] Read more

New York Times: “As War Rages On, a Museum of Russian Art Stands Up for Ukraine”

By Alex V. Cipolle – Reporting from Minneapolis – Oct. 18, 2023 This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world’s expanded view of what art is and who can make it. Click for online version “Bird” is a painted metal and wood sculpture by Leon Hushcha, a Ukrainian American artist […] Read more