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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE.(RUSSIA!)(Brief Article)

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| September 01, 2005 | Loos, Ted | COPYRIGHT 2005 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Ted Loos

If you think of Russian art as jumping from gilded religious icons to brainy abstractions by Kazimir Malevich with a Siberian wasteland in between, get ready to bid that idea a hearty dos vedanya with the arrival of this month's

blockbuster show of 800 years of masterpieces and master collections at the Guggenheim: "RUSSIA!"

"There's so much glamour and drama in the history of Russia," says Guggenheim curator Robert Rosenblum. "There's a whole cast of fascinating characters." Chief among them are Catherine the Great and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, both

of whose portraits grace the 280-work exhibition.

The installation has been designed by French interiors ace ...

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