Russian billionaires Rescue foreign culture
More Russian oligarchs and rich joined the Council of Trustees of the American and European museums. Examples of activities to support the world's leading cultural centers, Bloomberg article .
In particular, the agency recalled how in 2011, the Russian billionaire Leonid Michelson ("Novatek", "Sibur") funded the installation of a giant Belgian artist Karts Heller for his retrospective at New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art (New Museum of Contemporary Art). And last year, Michelson was elected to the board of trustees of the museum.
oligarch Vladimir Potanin ("Interros", "Norilsk Nickel") has joined the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2002 . In 2005, Potanin Charity Fund held in the Los Angeles Museum of major exhibition "Russia!" That drew 405,780 visitors.
Founder of the Moscow Contemporary Art Center "garage" Dasha Zhukova in 2009 is on the Board of Trustees of the Art Museum District Los Angeles (LACMA). A founder Baibakov Art Projects and Strategic Development Director Maria Baibakova Artspace on the board buyers Russian and Eastern European Art at the Tate Modern in London.
about the motives of rich Russian is not difficult to guess. According to Maria Baibakova, quoted Bloomberg, if you enter the Board of Trustees of the West Museum, you actively uchastvuesh in writing the history of art. With the Russian Museum is not so interesting - "they are not buying art, they accept gifts, they are inert».
Well what can I say. Officials in this list are not mentioned, and other worthy representatives of national-oriented elites are free to spend their money and power as they please. Like - and nice.
Werth question: what is worse in this respect Russian museums? And then just in terms of influential trustees are also fine: look over here « Friends of the Russian Museum » - not the board of trustees, and the" list of Forbes »(Michelson and a friend of the Russian Museum is too). The point is something else. We do not give these things special preferences. Factor of social prestige is not strong enough, the law encourages philanthropy not very important if the purchase happens, it is rare. And in general: flowers usually in homes fade, where the atmosphere is very strict. And if you want a "conservative" is also something you can fix.
Prepared Maria Onuchina, Vladimir Bogdanov, AI
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