Kandinsky by way of the river

There’s lots of art to look in Moscow, but the one unmissable stop is the brand new wing of the Tretyakov Gallery, in an extensive Soviet building at the river embankment. The gallery homesRussian twentieth-century artwork and the centerpiece of the gathering incorporate Russian avant-garde work dinner party your eyes on Kandinsky and Chagall, consisting of little-recognized units the latter artist completed in 1920 for the Moscow Jewish Theatre. Malevich’s well-known Black rectangular is likewise here. anywhere in the west, there might be long queues for this art; here, you’ll likely have the place nearly to yourself. The gallery additionally houses a large series of later Socialist realist artwork, amazing in its personal way.

Moscow has some first-rate theatre, but most of its miles off-limits to non-Russophone visitors for obvious language motives. Gogol-middle, run by means of director Kirill Serebrennikov, has English subtitles for a lot of its performances. The present-day stagings have often proved controversial in a town that also likes its art conventional, and no longer the whole lot they placed on right here works. however space itself is beautiful, the gang is young and thrilling, and most of the productions are innovative. often within the repertoire is A regular tale, a play via Ivan Goncharov, about a man coming to Moscow from the provinces, written greater than a hundred and fifty years ago and updated to the present day.