Max Seddon

Max Seddon is a journalist in New York. Previously, he was art critic for the Moscow Times. He tweets, sporadically, @maxseddon

The Belarusian Alexander Pushkin: holy fool, dissident performance artist

‘Ales’ Pushkin shares his name with Russia’s most famous poet, but is a very different kind of iconic figure. A restorer of church frescos, contemporary performance artist and nationalist political dissident, Pushkin is a surprising product of life in Belarus, ‘the only European country where the

By Max Seddon

/ 15 Dec 2011