A library of contemporary art has opened in one of the capital’s parks

MOSCOW. In the Gorky park of the capital, in the Garage educational center, the grand opening of the first public library in Russia dedicated to the history and theory of Russian and moraine contemporary art was held yesterday. The library will work under the direction of art critic, art historian Alexandra Obukhova.

To date, the collection of the library has more than 15 thousand valuable and rare magazines and books. The collection includes books about artists, catalogs of group exhibitions and museum collections, magazines on contemporary architecture and art, works of famous philosophers, publications on the theory of culture, monographs by leading art historians. Alexander Obukhov paid special attention to periodicals and rare second-hand books devoted to Soviet unofficial art. The library contains books in Russian foreign languages.

Materials on contemporary art collected in the library were acquired by the Garage Museum of Modern Art at major Russian and world publishers, donated by Russian museums and galleries, as well as by individuals who donated books from their home libraries.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru