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Robert Chandler

Robert Chandler’s translations from the Russian include works by Vasily Grossman, Alexander Pushkin, and Teffi. His translation, with Elizabeth Chandler, of Andrey Platonov’s Chevengur was published by NYRB Classics in January. Birds, Beasts and A World Made New, his edited selection of poems by Guillaume Apollinaire and Velimir Khlebnikov, will be published by Pushkin Press in August.

The Sculptor of Flight

With deep respect for his subjects—from birds to borders—Constantin Brâncuși got to the essence of their movement.

July 16, 2024

Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin

a poem

December 6, 2018 issue

Fearless Malevich

Malevich

an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, October 18, 2013–February 2, 2014; the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, March 8–June 22, 2014; and Tate Modern, London, July 16–October 26, 2014.

Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde: Featuring Selections from the Khardzhiev and Costakis Collections

Catalog of the exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum by Sophie Tates, Karen Kelly, Bart Rutten, and Geurt Imanse

Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism

by Aleksandra Shatskikh, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz

October 9, 2014 issue

Malevich: Beyond the Black Square

There has never been a better year to look at the work of Kazimir Malevich, a pioneer of abstract art often seen as the greatest Russian painter of the twentieth century.

August 5, 2014

On The Bank

February 20, 2014 issue

A Passion for Collaboration

May 13, 2010 issue