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Газета Нью Йорк Таймс опубликовала обширную статью Алекс Чиполле (Alex V. Cipolle) о миннеапольском музее русского искусства TMORA. В статье среди всего прочего упоминается и антивоенная выставка "SAY NO TO WAR", в которой участвовали многие члены форума. Копия статьи на сайте музея: https://tmora.org/2023/10/19/new-york-t ... r-ukraine/ , онлайн версия статьи в NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/arts ... e-war.html
New York Times:
As War Rages On, a Museum of Russian Art Stands Up for Ukraine
Since the invasion in 2022, the Minneapolis institution has faced immense pressure. It has responded by curating bold antiwar exhibitions. ... Those shows were set up adjacent to the ongoing “Say No to War” exhibit of political cartoons. Ms. Zavialova said the decision to keep the exhibition up until the end of the war was “unorthodox” for a museum (art experts agree), but necessary for capturing the ongoing struggle. “As the war goes through different stages, artists react in a different way.”
The cartoon exhibition is ever-changing, updated as artists — Alexander Dubovksy, Valery Momot, Alesha Stupin, Andrey Feldshteyn and many more — continue creating new work. (It’s now in its fourth iteration.)The exhibit now features a series by the Ukrainian artist Vladimir Kazanevsky, who fled to Slovakia from Kyiv when the war began. One of his illustrations shows a baby in a Z-shaped crib (the “Z” symbol is believed to be an orchestrated Kremlin effort to drum up support for the war, as well as to intimidate Ukrainians) next to a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a toy tank. In another, Ukrainians flee a city by night as a looming Grim Reaper sleeps on the horizon. Mr. Kazanevsky, who has become the face of antiwar cartoons in Europe, also draws President Vladimir Putin as a ruthless buffoon leading the country to collapse, as many other artists in the exhibition do.
Andrey Feldshteyn, a Minneapolis-based Russian American cartoonist, came up with the idea for the show shortly after Russia started the war and reached out to the museum. “I wanted to participate, to just do something against Putin’s aggression,” Mr. Feldshteyn said. “It will be a good reminder for Americans that something wrong is going on in Europe and we need to help.”
Like Dr. Zavialova, Mr. Feldshteyn is from St. Petersburg. He moved to Minnesota in 1993.
Mr. Feldshteyn helped found Cartunion, an online international cartoonist forum. As the war started to unfold, Mr. Feldshteyn saw an explosion of antiwar political cartoons from Russian and Ukrainian artists. Many had lost jobs as publications shuttered or were fleeing their homes, he said.
“They just wanted something to do,” said Mr. Feldshteyn. When he approached those artists with the idea of this exhibition, they were enthusiastic. Why? “It’s thanks to the museum policy,” he explained. The museum “chose a side in this conflict.”
The first round of the Say No to War exhibition:
https://www.cartoonblues.com/forum/view ... 16#p133716
The second round of the Say No to War exhibition:
https://www.cartoonblues.com/forum/view ... 42#p133931
The third round of the Say No to War exhibition:
https://www.cartoonblues.com/forum/view ... c5#p134959
