Brian Droitcour

work	Brian Droitcour is currently a curatorial fellow at Rhizome at the New Museum in New York. He spent five years in Moscow working as a translator, editor, and writer for several publications, including The Moscow Times and ArtChronika. Brian also contributes to Artforum.

Russians grew tired of the bread lines of perestroika and switched from queuing to crowding ca. 1993, a historical shift that visitors to the second Moscow Biennale experienced firsthand last Thursday, when getting into the opening meant ploughing through a dense mob outside...

Contemporary artists explore the theme of faith in an unusual project at Winzavod. In the months before it opened, "I Believe" was heralded as a turning point, an exhibition that would encourage its participants to eschew the irony and intellectual play that have become embedded in contemporary art...

Alexei Shulgin's pioneering works in internet art are collected on his site easylife.org, but many of the links there are empty or obsolete; one called Insanity Notification sends visitors to a site indicating that Shulgin went insane at an unidentified point in the past...