Russian Billionaire Backs `Soviets’ at Manhattan’s New Museum
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Billionaire Leonid Mikhelson, Russia’s 15th-richest man, has thrown his wealth behind a museum show opening today in New York to mark the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mikhelson’s awkwardly named foundation, Victoria the Art of Being Contemporary, is sponsoring an exhibition at Manhattan’s New Museum that examines the disintegration of the Soviet bloc through the work of 56 international artists, including 14 Russians. It is called “Ostalgia.”