Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines

Moscow's interactive museum dedicated to video game nostalgia of the late regime

Six years ago two young friends from Moscow were reminiscing about a favorite stand-up arcade game from their youth in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Few are aware of the fact that while the Soviet Union was in its final days, its military factories were churning out arcade games with names like Морской Бой “Sea Battle” and снайпер “Sniper” that were strikingly similar to …

Anton Ginzburg: No Echo, No Shadow

"No Echo, No Shadow," Anton Ginzburg's first solo show at Moscow's Galerie Iragui, straddles the boundaries of cultural and political epochs with its collection of objets d'art. The works—a mask, bronzes, works on paper, neon text—make implicit reference to the transition from early 20th century European art to the minimalism of the '60s and '70s. Everything in the exhibition either hangs in a tenuous balance, …