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Exhibits

Tatyana Yang’s art, currently on show at the Central Manezh until Feb. 19, is inspired by the prayer Litany of the Saints and is full of images of nature and still lifes. The works were shown in the Vologda Kremlin last year.
Vladimir Filonov / MT

Tatyana Yang’s art, currently on show at the Central Manezh until Feb. 19, is inspired by the prayer Litany of the Saints and is full of images of nature and still lifes. The works were shown in the Vologda Kremlin last year.

Temporary Exhibitions

Permanent Displays

11.12 Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
Alexander Zhirnoklyuyev shows recent paintings from his “On Black” series, to Feb. 16. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 798-5430, www.paperworks.ru

Aidan Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
Surikov Art Institute Students show their works, to Feb. 27. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. 1 to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 228-1158, www.aidangallery.ru/en

Anna Golubkina Studio Museum:
Zaraisk Angels (Angely Zaraiska): paintings and graphics by Vladimir Pimenov, to July 8. Located at 12 Bolshoi Lyovshinsky Pereulok. M. Park Kultury, Smolenskaya. Wed., Thurs. and Fri. noon to 7 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 637-2564/5682.

Brothers Lumiere Center of Photography at Krasny Oktyabr:
Photography and Neo Realism in Italy 1945-65, to Feb. 26.
New Silver City. Petersburg Photography From the 20th and the 21st Centuries (Serebryany Gorod. Peterburgskaya Fotografiya 20-21 vekov), to Feb. 26.
New The Magic World of Altai (Volshebny Mir Altaya): photographs, to Wed. Located at 3 Bolotnaya Naberezhnaya, Bldg. 1. M. Polyanka. Tues. to Fri. 2 to 9 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 795-1755, www.lumiere.ru

Central House of Artists:
Grey Monitors (Seriye Ekrany): a multimedia installation by Valentin Korzhov, to Feb. 25. Located at 10 Krymsky Val. M. Park Kultury, Oktyabrskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., closed Mon. 8-499-238-9634/1245, www.cha.ru

Christ the Savior Cathedral Museum:
History of the Christ the Savior Cathedral: permanent display. Located at 15 Ul. Volkhonka. M. Kropotkinskaya. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed the last Monday of the month. 924-8058/8490.

Classical Photography Gallery:
MT Pick New Christopher Burkett: photographs, to April 15. Located at 23 Savvinskaya Naberezhnaya, Bldg. 1. Wed. to Sun. noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 495-510-7714, classic-gallery.ru

Dom Ikony Na Spiridonovke:
Icons and other works of Christian art from a private collection, permanent display. Located at 4 Ul. Spiridonovka. M. Arbatskaya, Tverskaya. Noon to 10 p.m. 690-5474, www.dom-ikony.ru

Dom Nashchokina Gallery:
Lyalya Kuznetsova: retrospective of photographs, to March 4. Located at 12 Vorotnikovsky Pereulok. M. Mayakovskaya. Ticket office open noon to 7 p.m. 699-1178/4774, www.domnaschokina.ru

Fine Art:
Igor Vulokh shows recent paintings and graphics, to Feb. 21. Located at 3 Bolshaya Sadovaya Ul., Bldg. 10, in the yard of the Pekin restaurant. M. Mayakovskaya. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sat. noon to 6 p.m., closed Sun. 251-7649, www.galleryfineart.ru

FotoSoyuz Gallery:
Icy Regions of the Earth (Ledyaniye Kraya Zemli): photographs by Alexei Nagayev, to Feb. 17. Located at 5 Ul. Pokrovka. M. Chistiye Prudy, Kitai-Gorod. Tues. to Fri. 1 to 7 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed Sun. and Mon. Free admission. 621-5727, www.photounion.ru

Galeyev Gallery:
MT Pick Premiere of the 2010 Collection: Moscow Club of Fine Art Collectors shows over a hundred works. A detailed illustrated catalogue is available, to March 1. Located at 19/6 Bolshoi Kozikhinsky Pereulok. M. Mayakovskaya. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 6 p.m., closed Mon. 699-8383/8550/9854, www.ggallery.ru

Gallery 21:
Traveling. Transitional Impressions (Puteshestvovat. Promezhutochniye Vpechatleniya): works by Sergei Ogurtsov, Sergei Lotsmanov, Alexander Povzner and other young artists, to Feb. 21. Located at 11 Pugovishnikov Pereulok, Bldg. 3. M. Park Kultury, Frunzenskaya. By appointment 8-910-463-0404, 8-499-245-1125, www.gallery-21.ru/en

Historical Museum:
Happy New Year, Dear Comrades! (S Novym Godom, Dorogiye Tovarishchi!): New Year’s decorations, carnival costumes, postcards, posters, photographs and other items from the early 1900s to the1980s, to Feb. 27.
New The Epoch of Bronze (Epokha Bronzy): new permanent display. opens Thurs.
The History of Russia From Ancient Times to the Early 20th Century (Istoriya Rossii s Drevneishikh Vremyon do Nachala 20 Veka): permanent display.
Located at 1/2 Red Square. M. Ploshchad Revolyutsii. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Tues. and the first Mon. of the month. 692-4019/5660, www.shm.ru

Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Gogolevsky:
New Dust and Scratches: works by prominent contemporary photographers, Tues. to Feb. 19. Located at 10 Gogolevsky Bulvar. Metro Kropotkinskaya. Noon to 7 p.m. 694-6600, www.mmoma.ru

Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Tverskoi:
MT Pick Juan Hernandez Pijuan (1931-2005): retrospective of works, to March 11. Located at 9 Tverskoi Bulvar. M. Tverskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. 694-6660, www.mmoma.ru

Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Yermolayevsky:
Totart: multimedia installation by Natalya Abalakova and Anatoly Zhigalov, to Feb. 26. Located at 17 Yermolayevsky Pereulok. M. Mayakovskaya. Ticket office open noon to 7:15 p.m. 231-4405/08, www.mmoma.ru

Multimedia Art Museum:
Kommersant. Free Camera: photographs from the Kommersant Publishers collection, to Feb. 26.
Nome, Cose, Citta (Imena, Veshchi, Goroda): Italian photographs by Svetlana Konegen, to Feb. 26.
Taryn Simon. Photographs and Texts, to Feb. 19. Located at 18 Ul. Ostozhenka. M. Kropotkinskaya. Ticket office open noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 637-1100, www.mamm-mdf.ru

Museum of Applied, Decorative and Folk Art:
Masterpieces of Soviet Porcelain from the 1920s to the 1970s, permanent display.
Russian Folk Art From the 18th to the 20th Century: new permanent display.
New Two Emperors (Dva Imperatora): This historical show focuses on the relationships of Alexander I and Napoleon I, Wed. to March 15. Located at 3 Delegatskaya Ul. M. Tsvetnoi Bulvar. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Tues. and the last Mon. of the month. 8-495-609-0165, www.vmdpni.ru

Nashi Khudozhniki Gallery:
MT Pick New Alexander Kharitonov (1931-93): retrospective of paintings and graphics from private Moscow collections, to March 25. Located at Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Shosse, 36 Posyolok Borki. M. Molodyozhnaya, then bus 121 to Posyolok Borki. Noon to 8 p.m. 634-2222, www.kournikovagallery.ru

New Tretyakov Gallery:
Alexander Rodchenko. Workers Club: (1885-1953): The reconstructed interior of a club for workers designed by this constructivist artist, permanent display.
Main exhibit halls: a recently revised display of 20th-century Russian art.
Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953): designs, paintings and graphics by this influential constructivist artist, to Feb. 26. Located at 10 Krymsky Val. M. Oktyabrskaya, Park Kultury. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Thurs. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 230-7788, 951-1362, 238-1378. Excursions 953-5223. An Autoline minibus runs from outside the New Tretyakov Gallery to the Tretyakov Gallery at 10/12 Lavrushinsky Pereulok daily at 12:20, 1:20, 2:20, 3:20 and 4:20 p.m., www.tretyakovgallery.ru

Oriental Art Museum:
Art and Culture of Korea (Iskusstvo i Kultura Korei): a new permanent display.
The Dragon and the Phoenix (Drakon i Feniks): items from the museum collection, to March 11. Located at 12 Nikitsky Bulvar. M. Arbatskaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Mon. 691-8219/9614, www.orientmuseum.ru

Paperworks Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
New For Fair Elections (Za Chestniye Vybory): works by Nikita Alexeyev, Yury Albert, Dmitry Gutov, Vladimir Dubosarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Igor Mukhin, Alexei Kallima and others, to March 2. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 798-5430, www.paperworks.ru

Pobeda Gallery at Krasny Oktyabr:
The Egyptian Herd (Yegipetskaya Staya): conceptual photographs by Sergei Sonin and Yelena Smorodova, to Feb. 29. Located at 3 Bolotnaya Naberezhnaya. M. Kropotkinskaya, Polyanka. Tues. to Fri. noon to 8 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 644-0313, www.pobedagallery.com

Polina Lobachevskaya Gallery at Domik Chekhova:
MT Pick Circus! (Tsirk!): This New Year’s art show of paintings, installations and objects with magic and tricks features works by acclaimed contemporary Russian artists, to March 1. Located at 29 Malaya Dmitrovka. M. Mayakovskaya. By appointment. 694-2819, www.plgallery.ru

Proun Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
MT Pick Spiral Movement (Dvizheniye po Spirali): Russian avant-garde and contemporary graphics, objects and original posters, to Sun. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 916-0900, 917-4646, www.winzavod.ru, www.proungallery.ru

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts:
MT Pick Caravaggio (1571-1610): paintings from Italian and Vatican collections, to Feb. 19.
MT Pick William Blake and British Visionary Art: the art heritage of English poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827) and works by British masters Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Samuel Palmer, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Henry Fuseli, Francis Bacon and Cecil Collins, to Feb. 26. Located at 12 Volkhonka. M. Kropotkinskaya. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thurs. to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 697-7998/9578, www.arts-museum.ru

Roza Azora Gallery:
Alexander Vedernikov (1898-1975): works on paper, to March 8. Located at 14 Nikitsky Bulvar. Mon. to Sat. noon to 8 p.m., Sun. noon to 6 p.m. 695-8119, www.rozaazora.ru

RuArts Gallery:
Naked Bohemia (Golaya Bogema): works by Sergei Borisov, to Feb. 25. Located at 10 1st Zachatyevsky Pereulok. M. Kropotkinskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. Free admission. 201-4475, www.ruarts.ru

Shchusev Architecture Museum:
Yelena Tsikhon shows Northern scenes in photographs, to Feb. 19. Located at 5 Vozdvizhenka. M. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina, Arbatskaya, Alexandrovsky Sad. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., closed Mon. 691-2109, 690-0551, www.muar.ru

State Center of Contemporary Art:
Norman. Archetypal Variations: Nikita Alexeyev, Yury Albert, Vadim Zakharov, Konstantin Zvezdochyotov, Georgy Litichevsky, Boris Matrosov and other artists show works that illustrate a dream that Simon Waldron, the author of this project, had in 2009, to Sun.
MT Pick New Vladimir Bashlykov: Paintings and drawings, Mon. to Feb. 16. Located at 13 Zoologicheskaya Ul. M. Krasnopresnenskaya. Noon to 7 p.m., closed Mon. 254-8492/0674, www.ncca.ru

Tretyakov Gallery:
Main exhibit halls: masterpieces of Russian icon art and world-famous 19th- and early 20th-century paintings.
O Dolce Napoli: Neapolitan landscapes from the 18th and 19th centuries by Italian and Russian artists, to March 11.
Valentin Serov (1865-1911): portraits, sketches and illustrations in charcoals, pastels, watercolors, temperas and gravures, to May 20.
Yelena Polenova (1850-98): illustrations to fairytales and works of decorative art, to Feb. 26 in the Engineer Wing. Located at 10/12 Lavrushinsky Pereulok. M. Tretyakovskaya. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., closed Mon. 230-7788, 951-1362, 238-1378. An Autoline minibus runs from outside the Tretyakov Gallery to the New Tretyakov Gallery at 10 Krymsky Val daily at noon, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 p.m., www.tretyakovgallery.ru

Yelena Vrublevskaya Gallery:
Marga: paintings by young St. Petersburg artist Alla Dul on the theme of the Buddhist path to enlightment, to March 17. Located at 19 Rozhdestvensky Bulvar. M. Tsvetnoi Bulvar. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Sun. 621-3586, www.vgallery.ru


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