Nadya Tolokonnikova, one of the founding members of the art collective Pussy Riot, is a once-in-a-generation rebel. Following an anti-Putin protest that took place in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, an action now known as Pussy Riot’s “Punk Prayer,” Nadya and several fellow protesters were infamously sentenced to prison in 2012. Little did Nadya…
Art collective, performance artists, girl group, punk band, anarchists… Pussy Riot has been labeled many different ways over the years, although few truly grasp the full scope of what they are about and many have perhaps underestimated their brilliance. Originally a roughly dozen-member Russian feminist collective, Pussy Riot is now a fully-fledged protest movement and…
MARCH - AUGUST 2013 The world-renowned Cloisters museum and gardens—a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of the Middles Ages—will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its founding with more than a full year of exhibitions. Search for the Unicorn: An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters’ 75th Anniversary …
