St. Petersburg is a museum city, its gold-filigreed heart pulsing
with tsarist palaces, Baroque churches, and Art Nouveau mansions. The city’s
historical fantasia charms millions of tourists every year, but some locals are
itching to infuse their hometown with new life. The city’s Street Art Museum, opened
in 2014 by father and son Dmitri and Andrei Zaitsev, aims to bring art to
city-dwellers far from the center, and to create a cultural space that
concentrates on change and movement rather than preservation. “We live in a
dead space, built many years ago,” Dmitri Zaitsev told me at the opening of the
museum’s annual exhibition in mid-May. “Nothing new …read more
Source: The New Republic
