Vladimir Evgrafovich Tatlin (1885-1953) was a Russian avant garde artist whose model of the "Monument to the Third International" remains the main symbol of Constructivism. In years to come, Vladimir Tatlin may be viewed as one of the greatest...

My choice of a landmark is perhaps an unusual one because although the design is one of the great symbols of modern artistic achievement, for some reason it has never been made into a permanent structure. Tatlin's Monument was designed to celebrate a key...

VLADIMIR Horowitz broke the hearts of his fellow musicians. It wasn't that they swooned every time he sat down at the piano. His musicianship was, to many close listeners, of less than world class. He was not known for respecting a composer's intent. Nor...

Set on a knoll overlooking an oxbow bend in the Moscow River, the hallowed ground of the Novodevichy Cemetery holds the remains of scores of engineers, artists and politicians who helped shape Russia's tormented past century.They include the loved and the loathed, the tragic and...

Out of the nine sculptures on view in Thomas Kiesewetter’s second one-man show at the Jack Tilton Gallery, two stand out as so much better than the rest, so much more themselves. To understand why, it helps to go back to the artist’s American debut—one...