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Pushkin and Hermitage dispute over Modernist collection rumbles on

June 6, 2013

After Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin shut down the State Museum of New Western Art, Moscow, in 1948, dozens of works were split between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum.  With hopes to unite the works again, several possibilities are at play including, creating a “virtual museum” as well as rebuilding the Sate Museum of New Western Art.

 

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Pushkin and Hermitage dispute over Modernist collection rumbles on

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