Russian authorities thwart Moscow gallery's Design Miami/Basel plans

A Moscow-based gallery is showing cardboard cut-outs of Soviet Art Deco at Design Miami/Basel after Russian authorities refused a temporary export licence for the fair. Heritage Gallery, the fairs only Russian exhibitor, applied to the ministry of culture for permission to export the objects, including furniture by Nikolay Lanceray and a vase by Vera Mukhina. The ministry started to ask for more and more papers, then rejected the application a day before the scheduled shipment, says the gallery