Art

April, 1972

Those familiar with the grim, repressive record of the Soviet Ministry of Culture will be mildly surprised by Soviet Union: Arts and Crafts in Ancient Times and Today, the 1500-item exhibition of decorative arts now touring the U. S. It's neither gray nor preachy; it's almost frivolously bourgeois. Lenin said that art belongs to the people, and this is a people's show, full of kitsch The hundreds of modern objects here--flowered rugs, painted plates, tall glass vases--prove that the Russian mass...