Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

44 The quote from Rainer Maria Rilke (“We need, in love, to practice only this . . .”) occurs in “Requiem for a Friend,” in Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1984), page 85.

The Winter Palettes

57 Recent surveys of the art scene in Russia include Anna Kaminski, “In Russia, contemporary art explodes from Soviet shackles,” BBC News, February 23, 2014; Kelly Crow, “Moscow’s contemporary art movement,” Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2015; and Ekow Shun, “Moscow’s new art centres,” Financial Times, March 15, 2013.

57 For more background on art fairs in Russia, see Alexander Forbes, “Manifesta 10 succeeds despite controversy,” Artnet News, June 27, 2014; Masha Goncharova, “Cosmoscow: A fair for the Russian art collector,” New York Times, September 17, 2015; Rachel Donadio, “Museum director at Hermitage hopes for thaw in relations with West,” New York Times, May 14, 2015; and Zoë Lescaze, “An abbreviated Moscow Biennale unites scrappy performances, bourgeois spiders, and one former Greek finance minister,” ARTnews, October 16, 2015.

57 Quotes from members of the “art-anarch-punk gang” Voina come from Marion Dolcy, “Russian art anarchists explain themselves,” Don’t Panic, December 20, 2010; see also Taryn Jones, “The art of ‘War’: Voina and protest art in Russia,” Art in Russia, September 29, 2012.

57 The quote by Andrei Klimov occurs in Sasha Shestakova, “Outcry: Ten recent art exhibitions that caused a storm in Russia,” Calvert Journal, July 29, 2015.

57 This broad range of art controversies, including those relating to the exhibitions with LGBT content, are reviewed in Shestakova, op. cit.; and “Moscow venue refuses to host pro-LGBT teen photo display, cites police pressure,” Queer Russia, June 13, 2015.

58 For a comprehensive analysis of the art market in Russia, see Renata Sulteeva’s dissertation, “The market for Russian contemporary art: An historical overview and up-to-date analysis of auction sales from 1988 to 2013” (Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 2014).

58 Vladimir Ovcharenko’s comment on artists in the kitchen was originally published in Emma Crichton-Miller, “Young Russian curators tap into country’s recent art history,” Financial Times, June 27, 2014.

Young Russia’s Defiant Decadence

79 “A Stewardess Named Zhanna” was a 1996 hit for pop singer Vladimir Presnyakov. These days, his fans can find him on Facebook, SoundCloud, and Instagram.

97 For obituaries of and memorials to deceased Russian artists featured in “Young Russia’s Defiant Decadence,” see Kathrin Becker, “In memoriam Timur Novikov,” Art Margins, May 23, 2002; “Poslednyi Geroi: Georgy Guryanov (1961–2013),” Baibakov Art Projects, July 20, 2013; and “In memory of Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe, 1969–2013,” Baibakov Art Projects, March 22, 2013. Herwig Höller pays tribue to Petlyura in “Aleksandr Ilich Lyashenko known as Petlyura: A controversial protagonist of Russian contemporary art,” Report: Magazine for Arts and Civil Society in Eastern and Central Europe, June 2006. Petlyura participated in the One-Man Picket at the 2015 Moscow Biennale; see Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, “One-man picket.” The story of Garik Vinogradov’s persecution at the hands of the mayor of Moscow is told in Konstantin Akinsha, “Art in Russia: Art under attack,” ARTnews, October 1, 2009. Valera Katsuba describes his most recent project, “Father and Child (Отцы и дети),” at http://katsuba.net.

97 Boris Grebenshchikov’s musical career is the subject of Aleksandr Gorbachev, “Meet Boris Grebenshchikov, the Soviet Bob Dylan,” Newsweek, May 25, 2015; and Alexandra Guryanova, “Boris Grebenshchikov: The founding father of Russian rock,” Russia and India Report, October 19, 2014.

97 MC Pavlov’s observations on musical trends in Russia appear in Lisa Dickey, “Moscow: Rap star MC Pavlov,” Russian Chronicles, Washington Post, November 2, 2005.

97 Artyom Troitsky’s sartorial protest against electoral fraud is described in British Broadcasting Corporation, “Moscow protest: Thousands rally against Vladimir Putin,” BBC News, December 25, 2011.

97 Yuri Begalov’s business dealings are discussed in Nadezhda Ivanitskaya, “As a State Duma deputy and businessman Yuzhilin Kobzar built a billion-dollar business,” Forbes Russia, October 22, 2011; and his marital split in “Татьяна Веденеева расстается с мужем (Tatiana Vedeneeva has divorced),” DNI, June 2, 2008.