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Exhibits

An exhibition of Russian naive art is now on show at the Dramatic Art School Theater at 19 Ulitsa Sretenka. Twelve amateur artists from all over the country offer a fresh take on Russian traditions and the nature of figurative art. Vladimir Filonov

Temporary Exhibitions

Permanent Displays

ArtPlay Na Yauze:
Cold Air (Kholodny Vozdukh): a series of photo works by Paul Ktitz and Tasha Manayenkova, to Nov. 22. Located at 10 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Ul. M Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. 620-0882, www.artplay.ru

Brothers Lumiere Center of Photography at Krasny Oktyabr:
Anton Lyalin shows photographs from the Portrait of Africa series, to Dec. 9. 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

Cafe Mart:
Vasily Pavlovsky (1932-2009): abstractions, to Nov. 25. Located at 25 Petrovka. M. Chekhovskaya. 495-231-3661, www.cafemart.ru

Cervantes Institute:
Gabriel García Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude: paintings, sculptures and installations inspired by the famous novel, to Jan. 31. Located at 20A Novinsky Bulvar, Bldg. 1-2. M. Krasnopresnenskaya. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sat. and Sun. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 609-9055.

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

E.K. ArtBureau:
Verbalization: works by Nikita Alexeyev, Konstantin Zvezdochyotov, Yury Albert, Maria Chikova, Andrei Monastyrsky, Boris Matrosov and others, to Sun. Located at 4-1-4 Maly Kislovsky Pereulok. M. Arbatskaya. By appointment. 8-495-621-2772, 8-985-768-6591.

Frolov Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
New Boris Smelov (1951-98): selected works by this acclaimed St. Petersburg photographer, to Jan. 20. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 495-642-5445, www.frolovgallery.ru/en

Gallery 21:
New Elements of a Theory About Phantoms (Elementy Teorii Prizrakov): Sergei Ogurtsov’s installation touches on current problems of the contemporary cultural and political context, Nov. 22 to Dec. 19. 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

Golitsyn Manor:
Festival Art November: Vienna Impressions: (Venskiye Vpechatleniya): paintings and graphics by Alla Bedina, Alexander Dragovoi, Olga Lisenkova and others, to Nov. 30. Located at 5 Kozitsky Pereulok. M. Pushkinskaya. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Sat. and Sun. 299-2262/4204.

Historical Museum:
New French Clocks From the 18th and the 19th Centuries from the Historical Museum and private collections, Wed. to Feb. 28.
The Bronze Age (Epokha Bronzy): new permanent display.
The History of Russia From Ancient Times to the Early 20th Century (Istoriya Rossii s Drevneishikh Vremyon do Nachala 20 Veka): permanent display.
The Patriotic War of 1812 (Otechestvennaya Voina 1812 Goda): an addition to the 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

Kovcheg Gallery:
10 Summers and 17 Winters (10 Let i 17 Zim): paintings and drawings by Pyotr Miturich (1887-1956) and Vera Khlebnikova (1891-1941), to Dec. 16. Located at 12 Ul. Nemchinova. M. Timiryazevskaya, then bus 87 or 206 to Gostinitsa Molodyozhnaya. Ticket office open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 977-0044/88, www.kovcheg-art.ru

Krokin Gallery:
New 12 Hidden Artists. Dreams of a Hero (12 Spryatannykh Khudozhnikov. Sny Geroya):Yevgeny Semyonov’s video performance on the themes of Gilbert & George, to Dec. 9. Located at 15 Ul. Bolshaya Polyanka. M. Polyanka. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission. 959-0141/38, www.krokingallery.com

Manezh Exhibition Hall:
MT Pick New Publisher Vollard and His Artists (Izdatel Vollard i Yego Khudozhniki): 23 artists’ books published by one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art Ambroise Vollard from 1900 to 1939 with original graphic prints by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Auguste Renoire, Aristide Maillol, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Georges Braque and others, to Jan. 20. Located at 1 Manezh Square. M. Okhotny Ryad, Alexandrovsky Sad. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 698-1660.

Moscow Kremlin Museums:
The Golden Age of the English Court: From Henry VIII to Charles I (Zolotoi Vek Angliiskogo Dvora: ot Genrikha VIII do Karla I ): items from British collections — paintings, drawings, portrait miniatures, jewellery, precious tableware, arms and armour, textiles, rare books and prints, to Jan. 27 in the Belfry and Patriarchy Palace. Located at the Moscow Kremlin. Borovitsky Gate entrance. M. Borovitskaya. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Thurs. 495-695-4146, www.kreml.ru/en

Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka:
New Directions: works by young Chinese artists, to Dec. 2.
MT Pick The Theater of Vera Mukhina (Teatr Very Mukhinoi): scenography by this prominent Soviet sculptor best known for her sculpture group “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” that crowned the building of national Russian pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris in 1937, to Dec. 2. Located at 25 Petrovka. M. Chekhovskaya. Ticket office open noon to 7:15 p.m. 694-2890, www.mmoma.ru

Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Tverskoi:
New Vanitas. Contemporary Reflections: installations, videos, sculptures and photographs by European artists, to Dec. 9. Located at 9 Tverskoi Bulvar. M. Tverskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., ticket office to 7:15 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 9 p.m., ticket office to 8:15 p.m., closed every third Monday of the month. 694-6660, www.mmoma.ru

Moscow Museum of Modern Art on Yermolayevsky:
The New Are Coming (Noviye Idut): works from museum and private collections by Timur Novikov, Afrika and other members of the New Artists Group founded in the early 1980s, to Dec. 9. Located at 17 Yermolayevsky Pereulok. M. Mayakovskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., ticket office to 7:15 p.m., Thurs. 1 to 9 p.m., ticket office to 8:15 p.m., closed every third Monday of the month. 231-4405/08, www.mmoma.ru

Multimedia Art Museum:
New Father Pavel Florensky - The Russian Leonardo: items from the Florensky apartment museum, Nov. 23 to Dec. 16.
Krymsk. Witnesses. Direct Speech (Krymsk. Svideteli. Pryamaya Rech): Kirill Ovchinnikov, to Nov. 25.
MT Pick Marc Quinn: sculptures, paintings and multimedia installations, to Dec. 16.
MT Pick Robert Frank: big solo exhibit of works by this important figure in American photography and film, to Nov. 25.
MT Pick Weegee. Retrospective: works by Arthur Fellig (1899-1968), known for his street photography of crime scenes and emergencies, to Dec. 16. Located at 16 Ul. Ostozhenka. M. Kropotkinskaya. Ticket office open noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 637-1100, www.mamm-mdf.ru/en

Museum of Applied, Decorative and Folk Art:
MT Pick In the Garden (V Sadu): enamels and jewelry by Kunio Nakajima, to Mon.
Masterpieces of Soviet Porcelain from the 1920s to the 1970s, permanent display.
Riga Art Porcelain 1925-40, to Dec. 12.
Russian Folk Art From the 18th to the 20th Century: permanent display. 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

Museum of Private Collections:
Permanent display in 23 halls includes 1,500 works of art.
Under the Sign of Rembrandt (Pod Znakom Rembrandta): graphics from the collection of Nikolai Mosolov (1847-1914), to Jan. 12. Located at 10 Ul. Volkhonka. M. Kropotkinskaya. Ticket office open noon to 6 p.m., closed Mon. and Tues. 697-1610, www.museum.ru/gmii

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 display of 20th-century Russian art.
Romantic Russia (Romanticheskaya Rossiya): 19th-century sculptures and paintings from the Tver Art Gallery collection, to Jan. 27.
Still Lifes. Metamorphoses. The Dialogue of Classics and Modernity (Natyurmort. Metamorfozy. Dialog Klassiki i Sovremennosti): various kinds of still lifes by Russian artists from the 18th to the 21st century, to Feb. 24.
MT Pick There Will Be Three of Us (Nas Budet Troye): suprematist graphics by Kazimir Malevich, Nikolai Suetin and Ilya Chashnik from the Sepherot Foundation collection (Liechtenstein), to Nov. 25. 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

Novy Manezh:
MT Pick Festival New NET: Opticon: interactive video installation put on by Philippe Decoufle and the DCA Company, Fri. to Dec. 2. Located at 3 Georgiyevsky Pereulok. M. Okhotny Ryad. Ticket office open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., closed Mon. 692-4459.

Oriental Art Museum:
Art and Culture of Korea (Iskusstvo i Kultura Korei): a new permanent display. 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

Photohub_Manometr:
Homage: French photographer Christophe Clark and painter Virginie Pougnaud fuse photography, painting and theater sets to create works on the themes of world masters, to Nov. 25. Located at 5/7 Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya Ul. M Kurskaya. Noon to 9 p.m., closed Mon. 767-3730, www.artplay.ru, ph-manometr.com

Pop/off/art Gallery at Winzavod Center of Contemporary Art:
New Siggy: paintings by Vika Begalskaya, to Dec. 9. Located at 1 4th Syromyatnichesky Pereulok, Bldg. 6. M. Chkalovskaya, Kurskaya. Noon to 8 p.m., closed Sun. 8-495-766-4519, popoffart.com

Project Fabrika:
In Time: Sergei Katran and Ekaterina Sisfontes’ installation about time and its interpretations in different cultures, to Dec. 12. Located at 18 Perevedenovsky Pereulok. M. Baumanskaya, Elektrozavodskaya, then trolleybus 22 or 25 to Balakirevsky Pereulok. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., closed Mon. 265-3926/3935, www.proektfabrika.ru

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts:
Le Corbusier (1887-1965): biographical exhibit about this influential architect and designer, to Sun.
Permanent collection: works from ancient Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome, plus works from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.
MT Pick Rezo Gabriadze: paintings, graphics and sculptures by this great Georgian artist best known for his puppetry, to Sun. 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

Red October Gallery:
Monument to a Lost Civilization (Pamyatnik Ischeznuvshei Tsivilizatsii): installations by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, to Dec. 2. Located at 6 Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya. M. Kropotkinskaya, Polyanka. Noon to 9 p.m. 495-644-0143, 8-916-015-5166.

Roza Azora Gallery:
MT Pick The Joke (Shutka): paintings by Natalia Nesterova, to Dec. 10. 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:
Blossom: abstract compositions by Swiss painter Stephan Spicher, to Dec. 1. Located at 10 1st Zachatyevsky Pereulok. M. Kropotkinskaya. Noon to 8 p.m. Free admission. 201-4475, www.ruarts.ru

Shchusev Architecture Museum:
Unrealized Future. Architect Vasily Bazhenov’s Model of the Grand Kremlin Palace (Nesluchivsheyesya Budushcheye. Model Bolshogo Kremlyovskogo Dvortsa Arkhitektora Vasilya Bazhenova): This exhibit opens the Shchusev Architecture Museum permanent display, to Dec. 31. 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

Sovkom Gallery:
The Island of Calm (Ostrov Spokoistviya): paintings by Akhra Adzhindzhal, to Fri. Located at 28 Ul Shchepkina. M. Prospekt Mira, Sukharevskaya. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Sat. and Sun. 684-9191, www.sovcom.ru

State Center of Contemporary Art:
German Paintings From 1950 to 2010 works from German art collections, to Dec. 16. Located at 13 Zoologicheskaya Ul. M. Krasnopresnenskaya. Noon to 8 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. Located at 10/12 Lavrushinsky Pereulok. M. Tretyakovskaya. Tues., Wed., Sat. and Sun. ticket office open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thurs. and Fri. ticket office open 10 a.m. to 8 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

Veresov Gallery:
Tatyana Nazarenko shows recent works from her “Collection of Human Lives” series, to Dec. 10. Located at 14 Leningradsky Prospekt, Bldg. 2. M. Belorusskaya. Noon to 7 p.m. 495-937-3371.

Zverev Center of Contemporary Art:
New Denis Mustafin shows provocative works from his Sympathetic Magic series, to Wed. Located at 29 Novoryazanskaya Ul., Bldg. 4. M. Baumanskaya. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. 265-6166, www.zverevcenter.ru

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