The Russian Avant-garde Gallery website is arranged simply as a library, an encyclopaedia, if you will, of the Russian Avant-garde art.  It is a non-profit, educational website, made with the aim of bringing all the information about the Avant-garde art to the general public and the people who love it or are working with it.

And now, after the reprogramming and total upgrading of the Russian Avant-garde Gallery, it has become a membership site, distinguishing between 3 groups of visitors:

• Non-registered users: these do not create any sort of lasting relationship with the Gallery, and their access is limited to the very basic information.
   
• Free members: those who register for FREE at the forum or the website. They receive regular updates about the new developments and events, and have access to most of the type of information that was available on the static website. However, to access the new modules and the most detailed and time-consuming information an upgrade to Gold membership is required.
   
• Gold members: they pay a small symbolic monthly fee and receive access to all the most detailed and interesting information on the site, and in the future - to more exciting services I plan to add.
  
  As mentioned before expressely - it is a non-profit endeavor, and all the income from the membership at this point is considered a necessary contribution intended for the improving of the website, such as:
  • pay the wonderful programmer who made this upgrade possible and untangled the fix it got into with the previous one, for the programming and support of this site;
     
  • allow to expand the team working on this site, in order to bring to you more content more quickly; to manage, moderate and promote the forum; to connect to galleries, museum and auction houses and keep you up to date on the events in Russian Avant-garde; and much more;
     
  • and finally, to compensate myself to some extent for the immense work I do here as labor of love, and will continue doing (but even laborers of love need to pay bills), but which nevertheless requires a great deal of my time daily. 

To find out more about Gold membership packages, click here.

So, going back to navigating this website. On the right-hand-menu you find a list categories:

• General and Introduction -
  
  Information about us and administrative side of the website.
  
  Here you find information about the Creators of this website - Tatiana Kofyan and her work; and Vera Kofyan; as well as the contact page; the Terms & Conditions and the Mission & Policy documents. Here you may see what has changed and what was added, read the Newsletter or browse in the Archive.
  
  Here is also located the Introductory module you are browsing right now, and the list of Groups, a new addition to the Gallery. Don't hurry, take your time to explore it well.
   
• Movements & Groups -
  
  The central Movements of the Avant-garde art, connecting to pages on each Movement, which explains the artistic direction and line of the specific Movement. Then there is a list leading to individual artists' pages for those belonging to the specific Movement.
  
  On each such page the works of the artists are presented, divided into tabs according to work types, such as paintings, graphic art, design, theatre, sculpture etc. The first tab for each artist is a biography of the artist. The last tabs are recommended books on the artist and bibliography used to make the page. These last two tabs may be incomplete, but please remember that this whole website is a constant work in progress, and visit the News section often for updates.
  
  The last link on the Movements & Groups menu is dedicated to the Stand-alone artists, much in the same way as those artists belonging to Movements.
   
• Avant-Garde Community -
  
  Services for the lovers of Avant-garde art. Recommended books, films and special bookshops. Information on shows, exhibitions, auctions, fairs etc. The Gallery Forum, where one may connect to other members of this Gallery and discuss what they like with people, united by the love of Russian Anvant-garde.

Enjoy your browsing!

To go back to the Introduction for those new to Russian Avant-garde click on the next tab above or any other tab of your choice.