* Lecture and Film: "Russian Icons Examined: In Exhibition and On the Screen" with Nina Zaretskaya (at Museum of Russian Icons)

$8 Museum members 
$12 nonmembers 
$1 off with WOO card, includes Museum admission. 

Pre-registration suggested at (978) 598-5000 x21. Tickets available at the door, space permitting. Registration fees are non-refundable.

When in 2005 - 2006 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presented the exhibition RUSSIA!, a retrospective of the greatest masterworks of Russian art from the 12th century to the present, filmmaker and scholar Nina Zaretskaya was invited to produce a documentary based on this extraordinary exhibition. The result was RUSSIA! The Drama of Art in Twelve Episodes, which complements video from the exhibit with expert commentary from art historians and curators, and dramatic re-enactments of select historic events adapted from Soviet and Russian films. 

Ms. Zaretskaya will show several chapters of the film that focus on Russian medieval art, and early Russian icons in particular. Her lecture will discuss how the film developed from a mere reportage of the exhibit into an in-depth narrative of Russian cultural development, revealing the soul, character, and sensibilities of the Russian people through the amazing art they have created over the centuries of their complex and difficult history. 

Nina Zaretskaya was born in Moscow and currently lives and works in New York. She graduated from the Moscow State University with a Ph.D. in Philology, and has made a career as a documentary producer, TV journalist, video maker, show host and media art curator.  She is founder and director of Art Media Center “TV Gallery,” a Moscow institution highly praised for its contribution to the appearance and development of video and new media art in Russia.