Margarita Tupitsyn’s lecture Moscow–New York is based on a chapter from her forthcoming book, Moscow Vanguard Art: 1922-1992 (Yale University Press, 2017).
In it she will discuss those Moscow conceptualist artists who emigrated to New York in the 1970s and early 1980s in search of exhibition opportunities and direct interaction with the international art community. What they encountered in the closed circles of the New York art world differed markedly from their expectations, resulting in the creation of independent forms of postmodern practice. The lecture covers such key exhibitions such as Russian New Wave (1981–1982) Sots Art (1986–1987) and the work of the artists Vagrich Bakhchanyan, Rimma and Valery Gerlovin, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Alexander Kosolapov, and Leonid Sokov.