1990. THE LAST NOVEMBER.

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 to Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Exhibition at Harriman Institute Atrium (12th Floor, 420 West 118th Street)

The exhibit features unique black and white hand manipulated photographs by the artists Natasha and Valery Cherkashin. The exhibit will commemorate the “Last November” –the final official celebration of the October Socialist Revolution to take place on Red Square. That day, a huge portrait of Lenin unfurled outside of the GUM [State Department Store] for the last time. People from all over the Soviet Union came to Moscow, walked in Red Square, and took photos in front of Lenin's Tomb. The exhibit will feature images from the Cherkashins’ series, “Art for the People,” which capture portraits of the bronze sculptures of Soviet heroes and workers from the 1930s in Moscow’s Revolutionary Square metro station.

Both of these series were originally exhibited in the Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts in 1994, under the title "4+4 Late Modern: Photography Between the Mediums," along with an installation called "Moscow's Red Square in Santa Fe." After the Santa Fe exhibition, the Cherkashins did not have a place to store the works. The artists are grateful to thier friends Claire Shipman (a Columbia Univeristy and Harriman alumna) and Jay Carney, who stored the works, moving from one place to another, taking the works with them for nearly twenty years. The Cherkashins haven't seen these works since 1994 and now are excited to exhibit them at the Harriman Institute.

Exhibit viewing hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm