What's New
This past April the Institute for Modern Russian Culture, directed by John Bowlt, re-opened in its new facilities in the Shrine Auditorium adjacent to the USC campus.
IMRC
The Institute of Modern Russian Culture (IMRC) is concerned with the cultural history of Russia-especially the visual arts and literature during the 19th and 20th centuries. The primary aim of the IMRC is to preserve and propagate the esthetic values of Russian culture and it manifests a particular interest in painting, architecture, photography, and the applied arts. To this end the IMRC serves as a center for the 
collection and systematization of archives and rare books regarding these subjects, especially editions illustrated by artists of the fin de siecle, the avant-garde, and the Stalin era, and memoirs, diaries, treatises, manifestoes, and interviews published and unpublished by artists such as Lev Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Marc Chagall, Pavel Filonov, Natalia Goncharova, Vasilii Kandinsky, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, Pavel Mansurov, Konstantin Somov, Vladimir Tatlin, and Viktor Zamirailo. Critics well represented in the IMRC library include Erik Gollerbakh, Nikolai Punin, Aleksei Sidorov, Yakov Tugendkhold, and Nikolai Vrangel.
Incorporated in 1979 and since then directed by John E. Bowlt, the IMRC issues a newsletter twice a year and an annual journal, "Experiment." While serving as a resource for the study of Russian intellectual and material culture, especially for graduates and faculty, the IMRC also organizes or co-organizes conferences and public lectures, and sponsors exhibitions of artifacts from its own collection.
