Thinking Pictures - Conceptual Art from Moscow and the Baltics

Thinking Pictures: Conceptual Art from Moscow and the Baltics, edited by Anu Allas and Liisa Kaljula / ISBN 9789949687343 / a nice paperback with flaps, 208 pages, 8.75 x 10.25 inches, published by the Estonian Art Museum / text in Estonian and English, illustrated throughout *** Some info about the exhibit: "The exhibition focuses on the dialogue between conceptual art from Moscow and from the Baltics in the 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition has been organised in cooperation with the Zimmerli Art Museum in the United States, which has the world’s largest collection of unofficial Soviet art outside of Eastern Europe. A few weeks before the opening of the exhibition, Russia started a war against Ukraine, and the dialogue on recent history has acquired an entirely new context. In this extraordinary situation, the Kumu Art Museum is revealing an empty hall to its visitors, in which the exhibition’s original texts are presented, and spaces on the walls indicate the locations of the works tha