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January 19, 2015 Rhett Jones

The satisfying crunch of crushing some crap has never been more enjoyable. Dmitry Morozov, working under his ::vtol:: alias, was commissioned to make an installation for Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow recently and what he devised allowed visitors to come in, enjoy a little destruction and come away with a keepsake of creation. The basics of […]

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November 11, 2014 Rhett Jones

On Monday, reports of a horrible smell permeating the whole city of Moscow began popping up on social media. The Emergency Ministries Spokesman was compelled to make a statement and he said it was basically no big deal, “The smell of hydrogen sulfide is not dangerous.” What’s that? Hydrogen sulfide? Moscow’s top toxicologist concurred, “The […]

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January 10, 2014 Marina Galperina

Voice of Russia — the Russian government’s radio broadcasting service — reports that a gigantic Banksy exhibit is coming to Moscow, allegedly. The exhibition of “more than 130 paintings, sculptures, graffiti, collages and videos of the most famous modern incognito artist” isn’t just popping up anywhere but in the grand Manezh Exhibition Centre aka the Moscow Manege, […]

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January 23, 2013 Marina Galperina

The Russian graffiti blog VIVACITY has released a trailer for Moscow Subway Chronicles, a docu-short featuring some of the proudest work of BUNT, UTOP, MDT and TERROR from over the past five years. Watch graffiti writers unhinge brick walls, crawl around subterranean tunnels and bomb entire train cars in hard-hat ‘n’ vest disguise like pros. Just in case you thought Russian subways were for performance art only. […]

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