http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/david_caute en http://www.newstatesman.com/art/2009/01/tsars-russian-display-court http://www.newstatesman.com/art/2009/01/tsars-russian-display-court Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:31:46 GMT David Caute With a display of the opulent clothing of Russian royalty, are post-Communist curators inviting us to forget why the tsars had to go?

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/europe/2008/09/havel-play-prague-theatre http://www.newstatesman.com/europe/2008/09/havel-play-prague-theatre Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:52:02 GMT David Caute After more than a decade as Czech president, Václav Havel has returned to writing plays. Has his artistic vision survived the compromises of power?

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2008/02/russia-soviet-art-exhibition http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2008/02/russia-soviet-art-exhibition Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT David Caute Modernist art that refused to conform was suppressed during the rise of the Soviet Union. Now it forms the climax of a selection from Russia's national archives

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199912060037 http://www.newstatesman.com/199912060037 Mon, 06 Dec 1999 12:00:00 GMT David Caute

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