Russian avant-garde works from the provinces return to Moscow for first time

Russian avant-garde works that were displayed in early Soviet collections established by Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Rodchenko are on show in a groundbreaking exhibition at Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center. The works were hidden from view for decades as degenerate art.
In 1918, Kandinsky initiated a plan to spread avant-garde art to the masses by sending works to regional museums. Continued by Rodchenko, the initiative was “in tune with the utopian ideas of the early