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Lecture with Amy Adams: Sacred Histories: Why Russian Leaders Tell Icon Tales
Lecture with Amy Adams: Sacred Histories: Why Russian Leaders Tell Icon Tales
Members Free, Not-yet-members $15. Limited to 80 seats, tickets at door if available This talk uses the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan as a case study to highlight how Russia's political leaders invoke the notion of "sacred" history as political discourse. Drawing on hundreds of years of icon tales (skazaniia) linked to […]
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Free First Sunday
Free First Sunday
Enjoy free admission on the first Sunday of each month, courtesy of the Nypro Foundation. Film – The Return of the Icon Showing at 11:00 am and 1:00pm (Length 1 hour and 20 minutes) Enjoy a free showing of the film The Return of the Icon According to tradition, the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother […]
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Film: Exploring Mount Athos in Two Films and a Q&A with Julia Gearhart
Film: Exploring Mount Athos in Two Films and a Q&A with Julia Gearhart
Members $20, Not-yet-members $30 Limited to 80 seats; tickets at the door if available Explore the majesty of Mount Athos through film, starting with amateur filmographer Argyris Liapis's documentary: Athos, the World’s Brightest Peak, winner of the Astron Award (Audience Favorite) at the 18th San Francisco Greek Film Festival in 2021. Three monks from Mount […]
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Hybrid Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group
Hybrid Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group
Free. New members always welcome. This month, you can join in person or via Zoom. This month's book is The Winter Queen (Azazel) by Boris Akunin. Moscow, May 1876. What would cause a talented student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public? Decadence and boredom, it is presumed. But […]
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Gallery Talk – Sacred Presence: Virgin of Kazan
Gallery Talk – Sacred Presence: Virgin of Kazan
Free with admission. No registration required. Explore our special exhibition with guest curator, Dennis Sardella, who will discuss reflections on the icon of the Mother of God Kazanskaya, its iconography, form, spiritual journey, allure, and beauty, as well as its cooption by political and religious actors up to our modern times. Dennis will be available […]
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Annual Kent dur Russell Lecture with Dr Wendy Salmond
Annual Kent dur Russell Lecture with Dr Wendy Salmond
To Honor and Adorn: Icons and their Covers in late Imperial Russia Free. Registration required. The practice of adorning icons with metal covers is today one of the least understood aspects of the icon's history and function. As older icons came to be seen as works of art in the early twentieth century, their covers […]
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Closed for the 4th of July
The Museum will be closed on Thursday, July 4, for the Independence Day holiday. We will reopen to the public on Friday, July 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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