![]() ![]() To that end, Murray serves up bitter doses of anti-communism and relentless denunciations of everything “Bolshevik”. Murray’s aim as curator of the Royal Academy exhibition is to pour scorn on and discredit the 1917 October Revolution and to combat the contemporary impact of the works it inspired, such as the depiction of liberation in Boris Kustodiev’s “Demonstration on Uritsky Square on the day of the opening of the Second Comintern Congress in July 1920.”īoris Kustodiev, Demonstration on Uritsky Square (1921), State Russian Museum, St Petersburg (For our reply to Jones’s article see here) Prior to the opening of “Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932”, Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones expressed concern that the exhibition’s curators would fail to portray art under Bolshevism as “brutal propaganda”, equivalent to that of the Nazis. Such a comment is fair warning to anyone planning to visit the current exhibition at the Royal Academy in London. ![]() Quite the contrary as you will see from the exhibition…” -Natalia Murray, co-curator, on the eve of the opening of the Royal Academy’s “Revolution: Russian Art 1917–1932” exhibition. “We are not celebrating revolution here … I don’t think there is much to celebrate. ![]()
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