Avant-Garde Museology by Arseny Zhilyaev missing-image If we can agree that

If we can agree that such feelings underpinned American viewers in the age of Reagan and neo-liberalism

in the darkest of times

the dissident movement undermined the Soviet system and unexpectedly hastened its collapse

и Сонечка возвращается в свой сладко пахнущий книжный мир

И даже счастливый («Господи

Avant-Garde Museology by Arseny Zhilyaev missing-image If we can agree thathe museum of contemporary art might be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiments, social projects, or errant futures. But in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia, this recording device was undertaken by artists and thinkers as a site for experimentation. Arseny Zhilyaevs Avant Garde Museology presents essays documenting the