Actor Laurence Fishburne guides you through more than eight centuries of paintings and sculpture in this Antenna Audio tour of the Guggenheim Museum's Russia! exhibition. This is the most comprehensive retrospective of Russian art ever shown in the United States.Russia! features over 275 of Russia's greatest masterworks from the 13th century to the present. Included are rare icons, painted and sculptured portraiture from the 18th through 20th centuries, critical realism from the 19th century, as well as socialist realism of the communist era. Award-winning film actor/director Laurence Fishburne, along with Guggenheim co-curators Valerie Hillings and Robert Rosenblum, capture the drama and excitement of this once-in-a-lifetime showing. With an introduction by Museum Director Thomas Krens, the tour also includes an extended interview with Raymond Johnson, founder of the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis about art, and artists, during the Soviet era.
