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1. "Prison Doll" Artist Sentenced

A Russian artist has been sentenced for his "extremist" art. 

Tags: crime, dissent, art
2. And a Cat For Good Luck: Sasha Skochilenko is Free

Sasha Skochilenko shared details of her life in detention. 

Tags: art, resistance, political prisoners, Sasha Skochilenko
3. Sewing Images

Over the past few years, Petersburgers have been noticing small pieces of fabric with skillfully made embroidery on the streets of the city.

Tags: dissent, art, city
4. The Power of the Zine

Artist Anna Dial uses updated samizdat methods to publish her "zines" and avoid censorship. 

Tags: censorship, art, samizdat
5. Theater Directors Face More Detention

The trial of Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk has been postponed yet again. 

Tags: art, law, dissent, theater
6. The Mural Stronger than Buenos Aires Police

Russian artists painting a Navalny mural in Buenos Aires were interrupted by police after multiple complaints.

Tags: russians abroad, art, police, navalny, Argentina
7. Russian Artists Crash the Pompidou

Russian artists brought unauthorized performance art to Paris's biggest contemporary art museum. 

Tags: anti-war, dissent, performance art, france, art
8. Centennial Celebration of Avant-Garde Art

A century after it first opened, the Jewish Museum in Moscow recreated an exhibit of Jewish avant-garde artists from Chagall to Shterenberg. 

Tags: avant garde, jewish history, art
9. Words from Behind the Glass Box

A playwright and a theater director were arrested for a play criticizing ISIS. After months in jail, they spoke from their defendants' glass box.

Tags: dissent, women, art, theater, political prisoners
10. A Criminal Doll

An artist was arrested while fleeing to Kazakhstan for the use of prison tattoos in his artwork.

Tags: Krasnoyarsk, political prisoners, tattoo, art, dissent

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