At Russia’s Answer to the MoMA, Art Paints You

While there are artists like Paul Eng spreading the good word about Russia abroad, and radical collectives like Voina never backing down from creating public dissent domestically, the nation's art scene is getting a helping hand from Daria Zhukova -- celebrity girlfriend of billionaire Roman Abramovich. Zhukova has transformed a former bus depot into the Russian equivalent of New York's MoMA with the posthumous assistance of architect Konstantin Melnikov. And if the Garage Gallery's (as this space is called) showing of illustrious heavyweights Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's works don't impress, a display of Russia's pilfered art spoils from its recent Georgian invasion may do it for you instead.