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Multimedia TAP Tour: The Ironic Curtain

Learn more about what you see in the galleries with this multimedia TAP tour. Find the tour stop numbers on the walls near the works discussed and find the matching number here to hear from the curator and the collector, to see related works, and more.

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Hard to be a God

Gallery 1

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Welcome to the Ironic Curtain

Curator Catherine Walworth kicks off the tour with an introduction to the exhibition and its collector, Neil K Rector.

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Shoe Appetite, 2 Great Dictators

Gallery 1

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Still of Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936) View image for Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

Tap the speaker icon over the image to hear Curator Catherine Walworth on her love of slapstick comedy and the relationship between Charlie Chaplin and the Soviet experience.

See Charlie Chaplin by Varvara Stepanova

Note: This is a link to the MACBA website. To return to the tour, hit the back button in your browser.

Still of Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936)
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Charlie Chaplin eats his shoe for Thanksgiving - The Gold Rush

(1942 version)

From the Charlie Chaplin YouTube Channel

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103

Hero, Leader, God

Gallery 1

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40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan View image for An Oversupply of Ideology

An Oversupply of Ideology

Tap the speaker icon over the image of Ronald Reagan to hear collector Neil K. Rector on Sots Art, a critique of an “oversupply of ideology.”

40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan
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Susan and Neil Rector, Mina Litinsky, and Alexander Kosolapov and his wife, 1998

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104

Laughter in the Dark

Gallery 2

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Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid from the Souls Project View image for Souls for Sale

Souls for Sale

Tap the speaker icon over the image to hear Curator Catherine Walworth on Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid’s Souls Project.

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid from the Souls Project
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105

The Venus de Milo

Gallery 2

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The Venus de Milo View image for The Arms of Venus

The Arms of Venus

Tap the speaker icon over the image to hear collector Neil K. Rector on the significance of the Venus de Milo, and its missing arms, as a subject.

The Venus de Milo
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Vitaly Komar and Susan Rector hold portrait of Neil Rector, 2000

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106

Volley of Aurora

Gallery 3

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The Russian cruiser Aurora View image for Bang!

Bang!

Tap the speaker icon over the image to hear collector Neil K. Rector on the cultural sensitivity around depicting the Battleship Aurora.

The Russian cruiser Aurora
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107

Still Life with Ace of Spades

Gallery 3

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Artist Vladimir Tatlin visits the art studio of Pablo Picasso View image for Looking Back at the First Wave

Looking Back at the First Wave

Tap the speaker icon over the image to hear Curator Catherine Walworth on the influence of Cubism, Constructivism, and the first wave of the avant-garde in the USSR.

Artist Vladimir Tatlin visits the art studio of Pablo Picasso
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Photographic composition with Construction with Guitar Player and Violin  
Paris, on or after January 25 and before March 10, 1913. 
Gelatin silver print
Private collection 

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October 1993, Moscow

Gallery 4

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October 1993: On the Verge of Civil War

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Deficit Series Works

Gallery 4

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People stand in line to buy food in former Soviet Union View image for A Peasant’s Dream

A Peasant’s Dream

Tap the speaker icon over the black and white image to hear collector Neil K. Rector on Leonid Sokov and the Deficit Series.

 

See Pastry Case, I by Claes Oldenburg

Note: This is a link to the MOMA website. To return to the tour, hit the back button in your browser.

 

 

Neil Rector and Leonid Sokov, 1992

People stand in line to buy food in former Soviet Union
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Wings

Gallery 5

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Question mark with angel wings View image for A Visual Question

A Visual Question

Tap the speaker icon over the image to hear collector Neil K. Rector on the visual question of Wings.

Question mark with angel wings
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Ilya Kabakov and Neil Rector, 2002

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Wall of Photos

Gallery 5

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Two people tow a television in the snow by a horse drawn carriage View image for Escapism

Escapism

Tap the speaker icon over the image to hear Curator Catherine Walworth on escapism.

Two people tow a television in the snow by a horse drawn carriage
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Space and Landscape

Gallery 6

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Artist Oleg Vassiliev standing with paintings View image for How Memory Works

How Memory Works

Tap the speaker icon over the image to hear collector Neil K. Rector on the relationship of memory in the works of Oleg Vassiliev.

Artist Oleg Vassiliev standing with paintings
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Gallerist Mina Litinsky, Oleg Vassiliev, Neil Rector, and Kira Vassiliev, 1995

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