In Memoriam

News shared by Karen Kettering: Lidia Andreeva, a pioneering female scholar of decorative arts and design and specialist in Soviet propaganda porcelain, has died. Condolences to her family, her colleagues, and her many readers.

Reported by the State Institute for Art Studies: http://sias.ru/institute/news/5573/ and personal recollection by a colleague: https://clubic.ru/?p=15624

Children's writer Eduard Uspensky, creator of the beloved Soviet animated character Cheburashka, has died. A remembrance from lenta.ru can be found here: https://lenta.ru/articles/2018/08/15/uspenskii/

Dear SHERAns,

I am sad to report the loss this week of two artists whom many of you knew or worked with, New York-based sculptor Leonid Sokov and Moscow-based kinetic artist, designer, and musician Viacheslav Koleichuk. You can read more about Sokov and Koleichuk here:

Sokov:
http://artguide.com/news/5546
http://leonidsokov.org/
http://www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu/voorhees-gallery/leonid-sokov-ironic-objects#.WtDRjdPwaL4
http://www.colta.ru/news/12679

Koleichuk:
https://www.colta.ru/news/17771
http://www.theremin.ru/people/koleichuk/viacheslav.html
http://www.artinfo.ru/artbank/scripts/english/collage

Igor and I first met about 40 years ago and quickly became friends. I am in debt to him in many ways. Amongst much else, it was he who first encouraged me to translate some of Varlam Shalamov's stories and - a few years later - Vasily Grossman's LIFE AND FATE. Igor’s recent death, in a London hospital, is a great loss.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/aug/02/igor-golomstock-obituary?CMP=share_btn_fb

Very best wishes to all,

Robert