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Konstantin Akinsha is a correspondent for ARTnews magazinein Budapest, Hungary....

A survey of Ukrainian modernism in London brings an under-recognized chapter of art history to the fore while protecting masterpieces from.

President Michael Elliott interviewed Konstantin Akinsha, curator of The Juncture: Ukrainian Artists in Search of Modernity and Identity.

Konstantin Akinsha is a correspondent for ARTnews magazinein Budapest, Hungary.

Guest curator Konstantin Akinsha presents this lecture in connection with the opening of The Juncture: Ukrainian Artists in Search of Modernity and Identity at.

Only then did the Americans discover who the Yugoslav mystery man really was: a collector, dealer, painter, restorer, forger, alleged art thief, and probable.

Davyd Burliuk Carousel. 1921. Oil on canvas, 33 x 45.5 cm. National Art Museum of Ukraine

The first proper survey of Ukrainian modernism in Western Europe is long overdue and is finally taking place amid a rise in awareness about a country whose cultural legacy is much misunderstood in part thanks to Western post-war art historians who clumsily wrote Ukraine out of the picture.

Most would have shied away from the prospect of mounting an international show of Ukrainian art at such a difficult time.

After my return to Washington, I had a dinner with an American politician who had just visited Saint Petersburg.

But within days of the conflict starting, independent art historian and curator, Konstantin Akinsha was thinking about how to protect Ukrainian masterpieces in national collections. Yet what eventually became this exceptionally timely show ‘In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s’ was the culmination of years of study and research in similar fields.

At Harvard, Akinsha studied the fate of the fabled Ukrainian Khanenko collection, dispersed during the Bolshevik Revolu