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Architecture + Design Film Series, The Desert of Forbidden Art

Date
Wed, Nov 11
Time
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Eastern
Venue
Contois Auditorium
Address
149 Church Street, Burlington, VT 05401
Price
Free

During Stalin’s Soviet era, Igor Savitsky collected more than 40,000 beautiful, colorful, powerful and rarely seen works by artists experimenting in a brash, avant-garde style. These works, at odds with the drab realism favored by the government, put the artists at great risk. Savitsky searched out the artists and their works and created a museum in Uzbekistan, remote enough that he evaded the worst of Soviet censorship. He collected and preserved cultural artifacts of Uzbeks as the...

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