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PRESS RELEASES

2021

The Museum of Russian Icons Celebrates its 15th Anniversary with “Icons for Our Time”

The Museum of Russian Icons Receives Highest National Recognition

Awarded Re-Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums

The Long Way Home: A Photographic Journey with Gordon Lankton

The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Russian Icons announces the death of founder Gordon B. Lankton

Works by Alexander Gassel

2020

Virtual Visits and Free Access to Online Collections

Pysanka: Symbol of Renewal

Tradition & Opulence: Easter in Imperial Russia

2019

The Museum of Russian Icons Celebrates the Season with Two Holiday-Themed Exhibitions

Emil Otto Hoppé: Photographs of the Ballets Russes

The Museum of Russian Icons presents Wrestling with Angels: Icons from the Prosopon School

The Museum of Russian Icons presents Zhostovo: A Russian-American Odyssey

Museum of Russian Icons Announces Partnership with British Museum

JACQUES’ MENAGERIE: Hnizdovsky Prints from the Christina and George Gamota Collection

Konstantin Simun: The Sacred in the Profane

2018

Special Holiday Programs at the Museum of Russian Icons

Mystery, Fantasy, and Resistance: A piano concert with Yoko Hagino

Resilience: How to Live 100 Russian Years

Opulence Rediscovered: The Romanov Liturgical Silver

Corncobs to Cosmonauts: Redefining the Holidays during the Soviet Era

Icons of the Hellenic World: The Argie & Emmanuel Tiliakos Collection of Greek Icons

The Art of Alexander Gassel

Rushnyky: Sacred Ukrainian Textiles

Concert: St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble

Museum Receives Icon Donation

New Program Series at the Museum: Russkie Posidelki

Museum of Russian Icons Receives Mass Humanities Grant

Migration + Memory: Jewish Artists of the Russian and Soviet Empires
from the Vladimir and Vera Torchilin Collection

Fantastic Beasts In Iconography

IN THE NEWS

2021

11.20.2021 Russianicon.com: What You Should Know About the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, MA

10.23.2021 Worcester Telegram: Contemporary Icons Commissioned to Celebrate Museum’s 15th Anniversary

10.21.2021 Worcester Magazine: Five Things to Do

9.22.2021 Daily Advent: The Museum of Russian Icons Earns Highest Award from the American Alliance of Museums

9.17.2021 Broadway World: ICONS FOR OUR TIME Exhibition Of 15 Contemporary Icons Celebrates 15th Anniversary Of Museum Of Russian Icons

9.9.2021 Clinton Item: Olde Home Days return after 2020 COVID cancellation to bring entertainment to Central Park

8.20.2021 Clinton Item: Accolades and tears flow in tribute to Gordon Lankton, celebrating his life and work

8.20.2021 Clinton Item: Reflections: Gordon Lankton celebration kept focus on family and community he loved

8.14.2021 Clinton Item: Gordon Lankton remembered in program, exhibits

8.3.2021 Worcester Telegram: Museum of Russian Icons re-accredited by American Alliance of Museums

8.1.2021 Artfixdaily.com: Exhibition at The Museum of Russian Icons commemorates the life of the museum’s late founder, Gordon B. Lankton

7.28.2021 Broadwayworld.com: Museum Of Russian Icons Earns Highest Honor From American Alliance Of Museums

7.6.2021 USA Today: Mark Your Calendars: Smithsonian Magazine’s Free Museum Day is Back After Last Year’s COVID-19 Cancellation

7.2.2021 Telegram & Gazette Atomic Alert! Looks at the Cold War in America

4.15.2021 Harvard Magazine: Staff Pick: Alexander Gassel’s Painted Poetry

4.7.2021 WGBH Boston Public Radio: Arts Roundup

3.9.2021 Clinton Item: Gordon Lankton left a legacy of plastics, icons and community support in adopted hometown

3.8.2021 broadwayworld.com: The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Russian Icons Announces the Death of Founder Gordon Lankton

3.8.2021 artdaily.com: The Board of Trustees of the Museum of Russian Icons Announces Death of Founder Gordon Lankton

3.8.2021 Plastics News: Obituary Former Nypro Owner Gordon Lankton

3.8.2021 Worcester Business Journal: Gordon Lankton dies at 89, leaving a legacy of business success and cultural appreciation

3.5.2021 300magazine.com: Russian Iconography & Avant-Garde in the art of Alexander Gassel

3.3.2021 russianicon.com: Alexander Gassel’s New Exhibit at the Museum of Russian Icons

3.2.2021 fineartshipper.com: Alexander Gassel’s Retrospective Exhibition to Open at MORI on March 5

3.1.2021 Art New England: Museum of Russian Icons

2.18.2021 The Lowell Sun: Museum of Russian Icons Reopens

2.11.2021 Artfix Daily: Painted Poetry: Alexander Gassel, A Retrospective opens at Museum of Russian Icons

2.11.2021 Telegram & Gazette: Painted Poetry combines art with Alexander Gassel’s own words

1.21.2021 Telegram & Gazette: Museum of Russian Icons offering online exhibition: Painted Poetry

1.1.2021 Art New England: Museum of Russian Icons

2020

10.22.2020 Clinton Item: Lacquer boxes featured at Clinton’s Museum of Russian Icons

7.1.2020 Telegram & Gazette: Lana Sloutsky Named Curator at Museum of Russian Icons

7.1.2020 Harvard Press: Museum of Russian Icons Appoints New Curator of Collections and Exhibitions

7.1.2020 Artdaily.com: Museum of Russian Icons Appoints Lana Sloutsky as Curator of Collections

7.1.2020 Worcester Business Journal: Museum of Russian Icons Names New Curator

6.29.2020 WICN Radio: Kent Russel & Nick Capasso

5.12.2020 Artfix Daily: The Museum of Russian Icons offers virtual visits and free access to online collections

3.13.2020 New England Magazine: 12 of the best exhibitions in New England this Spring

2.24.2020 WICN Radio: Michael Scheibach—Atomic Alert

1.15.2020 Telegram & Gazette: Museum Planning Three Cultural Shows

1.14.2020 Harvard Press: Museum of Russian Icons announced spring 2020 exhibitions

1.7.2020 broadwayworld.com: Museum of Russian Icons New Exhibitions ‘Atomic Alert!’ & ‘Pysanka: Symbol of Renewal’ to Open in March

1.1.2020 Artsope Magazine: MYTHOLOGIZING AND ROMANTICIZING: SERGEI DIAGHILEV’S REVOLUTIONARY BALLET COMPANY BROUGHT TO LIFE

2019

12.13.19 Telegram & Gazette: Pianist Ivan Gusev to perform at Museum of Russian Icons

12.8.19 Telegram & Gazette: Pianist presenting Museum Winter Concert

11.10.2019 WICN Radio: Kent Russell & Daniela Rivera

11.7.19 Artfixdaily.com: Emil Otto Hoppé: Photographs of the Ballets Russes Opens at Museum of Russian Icons on Nov. 15

10.18.19 Harvard Magazine: Staff Picks: Images from the Ballets Russes

10.16.19 DatingNews.com: Editors’ Choice Award: The Museum of Russian Icons Can Inspire Thoughtful Dates in a Quiet Massachusetts Town

9.5.19 Artgeek.io: The Largest Collection of Russian Icons Outside Russia

8.19.2019 WICN Radio: Lynette Hull

8.15.19 Artgeek.io: Emil Otto Hoppé: Photographs from the Ballets Russes

7.21.19 Artdaily.com: Museum of Russian Icons presents Wrestling with Angels

7.19.19 The Clinton Item: Contemporary artists “Wrestling with Angels” in new icon show

7.18.19 Artgeek.io: Wrestling with Angels: Icons from the Prosopon School of Iconology and Iconography

6.20.19 Artfix Daily: The Museum of Russian Icons presents Wrestling with Angels: Icons from the Prosopon School

6.17.19 Orthodox Arts Journal: Wrestling with Angels: Icons from the Prosopon School

4.5.19 The Lowell Sun: Hungry for Color? Local Galleries have Something for Hue.

4.2.19 Artfix Daily: The Museum of Russian Icons presents Zhostovo: A Russian-American Odyssey

4.1.19 Museum Open House: Konstantin Simun: The Sacred in the Profane at the Museum of Russian Icons

3.31.19 The Harvard Press: Museum of Russian Icons Presents ‘Zhostovo: A Russian-American Odyssey’

3.26.19 Worcester Telegram & Gazette: Clinton Museum Partners with British Museum

3.25.19 Byzantine Blog: Museum Of Russian Icons Announces Partnership With The British Museum

3.25.19 The Clinton Item: New Temporary Exhibits at the Museum of Russian Icons

3.25.19 ArtFix Daily: Museum of Russian Icons Announces Partnership with The British Museum

3.21.19 Worcester Magazine: Spring Arts Preview 2019

3.20.19 Boston Globe: The Plastic Fantastic, in Two Art Exhibits

3.18.19 The Clinton Item: Senior Project: Iconic History in the Making

3.14.19 Wicked Local Lincoln: 5 Things to Do in and Around Lincoln: See Prints at the Museum

3.15.19 Broadway World: Museum of Russian Icons presents Jacques’ Menagerie

3.6.19 Artfix Daily: Jacques’ Menagerie Opens at Museum of Russian Icons

2.22.19 Clinton Item: Finding the Sacred in the Profane

2.5.19 Worcester Telegram: Exhibit Looks at Sacred in the Profane

1.19.19 The Harvard Press: Museum of Russian Icons present Konstantin Simun: The Sacred in the Profane

1.16.19 Broadway World: Museum of Russian Icons features Konstantin Simun

2018

12.26.2018 Business Insider: From corncobs to cosmonauts, here’s a look some of the holiday ornaments that were popular in the Soviet Union when Christmas was banned

12.25.2018 PRI’s The World: A peek at some Soviet era ornaments

12.23.2018 Open Studio with Jared Bowen: Soviet Era Ornaments

12.20.2018 Greater Boston: Christmas at the Museum of Russian Icons

12.01.2018 vacationidea.com: 25 Best Things in Massachusetts

11.24.2018 Telegram & Gazette: Corncobs to Cosmonauts Kicks Off Holiday Season at the Museum of Russian Icons

11.12.2018 Clinton Item: Corncobs to Cosmonauts Lights up Holiday Season at the Museum of Russian Icons

11.11.18 Harvard Press: Museum of Russian Icons Announces Holiday Programs

11.8.18 Broadway World: The Museum of Russian Icons Features Mystery, Fantasy, And Resistance: A Piano Concert With Yoko Hagino

11.5.18 ArtFix Daily: CORNCOBS TO COSMONAUTS: Redefining the Holidays during the Soviet Era

11.4.18 Art Fuse: Coming Attractions

10.31.18 Artscope: Tinsel Time in Clinton: Russia’s Holiday Icons Show Our Similarities

10.31.18 Clinton Item: Holiday-themed exhibits coming to the Museum of Russian Icons

8.28.2018 WICN Radio: Kent Russell & Laura Garrity-Arquitt on Emil Hoppé

10.19.2018 ArtDaily.com: The Museum of Russian Icons Opens the First Exhibition in 50 Years of Lost Masterpiece

10.17.2018 Milton Times: The Scene Beyond Milton

10.14.2018 Worcester Telegram: Museum Opening Display of Romanov Silver

10.14.2018 Russian Art and Culture: Corncobs to Cosmonauts: Redefining the Holidays in the Soviet Era

9.30.2018 Artfix Daily: Opulence Rediscovered: The Romanov Liturgical Silver

9.13.2018 Newgrouptour.com: Corncobs to cosmonauts explores the holidays during the Soviet era at the Museum of Russian Icons

9.07.2018 Worcester Business Journal: Forty Under Forty: Water or Vodka

8.29.2018 Broadway World: Corncobs to Cosmonauts Redefines the Holidays at the Museum of Russian Icons

8.20.2018 Jezebel: Hello, Please Take a Free Museum Ticket Thank You

6.28.2018 Russia Beyond the Headlines: 8 Russian art museums that you can find in your country

6.22.2018 The Clinton Item: Two exhibits on display at Museum of Russian Icons

6.12.2018 Greek Boston: Icons of the Hellenic World Exhibition Opening Reception in Clinton MA

5.10.2018 MetroWest Daily News: Arts Preview

5.10.2018 Artfix Daily: Museum of Russian Icons presents Contemporary Russian American Artist Alexander Gassel

5.23.2018 Broadway World.com: ‘Icons of the Hellenic World’ Opens at Museum of Russian Icons on June 22

5.1.2018 Orthodox Observer: Massachusetts Museum to Exhibit Greek-Byzantine Icons

5.25.2018 Telegram & Gazette: Russian artist Alexander Gassel makes cultural and artistic transitions in the U.S. look seamless

3.22.2018 Broadway World: Museum of Russian Icons presents Alexander Gassel

1.20.2018 Artdaily.org: The Museum of Russian Icons opens “Rushnyky: Sacred Ukrainian Textiles”

1.20.2018 Artfix Daily: Museum of Russian Icons presents Rushnyky: Sacred Ukrainian Textiles

1.16.2018 Clinton Item: Ukrainian rushnyky subject of new exhibit at Clinton museum

01.11.2018 GoLocal Worcester: Museum of Russian Icons to Host Exhibition Celebrating Ukrainian Culture

01.11.2018 Harvard Press: Museum of Russian Icons presents exhibit of sacred Ukrainian textiles

01.11.2018 Clinton Item: Museum of Russian Icons to present ‘Rushnyky: Sacred Ukrainian Textiles

01.07.2018 Harvard Press: January at the Museum of Russian Icons

2017

11.30.2017 Wicked Local: Museum of Russian Icons to Host St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble

11.26.2017 Metrowest Daily News: Migration and Memory at Russian Icons Museum Features Jewish Artists

11.21.2017 Chicago Tribune:Massachusetts Russian icon museum gets major donation

11.20.17 Philippine Canadian Enquirer: Massachusetts Russian Icon Museum Gets Major Donation

11.15.2017 Art Daily: Museum of Russian Icons Receives Major Gift of more than 100 Works

11.15.2017 Broadway World: Museum of Russian Icons Receives Largest Gift Since Founding

11.15.2017 Worcester Business Journal: Museum of Russian Icons Receives Largest Donation of Artifacts

11.15.2017 Telegram and Gazette: Artifact Collection Donated to Museum of Russian Icons

11.13.2017 PRI The World: How the Russian Revolution Changed the Lives of Jewish Artists

11.2.0017 Artscope Magazine: Migration + Memory: Revolutionary Jewish Art in Clinton

10.12.2017 Artfix Daily: Migration + Memory: Jewish Artists of the Russian and Soviet Empires

10.12.2017 Museum Open House: Migration + Memory: Jewish Artists of the Russian and Soviet Empires

10.13.2017 Telegram and Gazette: New Exhibit Studies work of 20th century Jewish Artists in Russia

10.27.2017 Clinton Item: Museum of Russian Icons Announces New Program Series

8.24.2017 Sentinel & Enterprise: Comedian-author to speak at Clinton museum on revolutions of 1917 and their modern-day effect

7.25.2017 NPR: For One Artist, Russian Orthodox Icons Mean the Perfect Blend of Art and Spirit

7.2017 Atlas Obscura: Museum of Russian Icons

6.10.2017 The Telegram & Gazette: “Fantastic Beasts” on Display

6.3.2017 The Telegram & Gazette: Fantastic Beast Show Opens with Family Day

6.1.2017 Atlas Obscura: This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography

5.29.2017 The Telegram & Gazette: Ethiopian Works Show Off Another Side of Icons

5.4.2017 Icons of Ethiopia US Exhibit at Museum of Russian Icons in Massachusetts

3.26.2017 GoLocal Worcester: Museum of Russian Icons to Host Zolotoj Plyos Concert

3.4.2017 The Harvard Press: A Bit of Ethiopia in Clinton

1.22.2017 Russian Icons & Antiques Blog: The Museum of Russian Icons

3.23.17 Worcester Magazine: Spring Arts Preview 2017

2016

11.17.16 Sentinel & Enterprise: Weekend Best Bets Museum to Show Rarely Seen Icons

09.15.16 The Harvard Press: Museum of Russian Icons celebrates 10 years

09.08.16 GoLocalWorcester.com: Museum of Russian Icons Kick off 10th Anniversary Celebration October 15

09.07.16 artfixdaily.com: New England’s Museum of Russian Icons Celebrates 10 Years with Party and Programs

08.21.16 Wicked Local Hanson: The trouble with angels: Rescued Tiffany stained glass at Clinton museum

07.22.16 Clinton Item: Tiffany glass windows on display at Clinton museum

07.21.16 Sentinal & Enterprise: Tiffany windows gleam in ‘Angels’ exhibit at Museum of Russian Icons

07.18.16 Worcester Business Journal: Russian icon museum faces international incidents, fundraising goals

07.03.16 Boston Globe: Clinton museum returns icons to Russia, diffusing international controversy

06.28.16 Worcester Telegram: Rediscovered Tiffany Windows coming to Clinton gallery

05.25.16 Boston Globe: Museum in Clinton sending icons to Russia

05.25.16 The Item: Museum of Russian Icons making international news

05.23.16 Worcester Telegram: Delaney joins Museum of Russian Icons team

04.26.16 Worcester Telegram: Russian Duo set to perform at Museum of Russian Icons

03.06.16 Worcester Telegram: In Clinton, Russian natives recall life under USSR shadow

02.12.16 The Item: New display offers family-friendly fun

01.18.16 The Item: Matryoshka doll exhibit opens Feb. 11

01.13.16 WBUR’s The ARTery: 13 Art Exhibitions To See This Winter

2015
12.08.15 The Catholic Free Press: St. Nicholas comes to town

11.27.15 The Item: ‘Discovering St. Nicholas’ finds the truth behind the story

10.20.15 Worcester Telegram: Clinton landmark receives AAM accreditation

10.17.15 Boston Globe: For museum donor, collecting nesting dolls a journey of hope

08.16.15 Boston Globe: The Ticket: Art, Byzantium to Russia

07.12.15 Worcester Telegram: Basketmaker will share his craft

07.12.15 Worcester Telegram: Collection of nesting dolls finds new home at Museum of Russian Icons

07.04.15 Worcester Telegram: Museum now home to woman’s nesting doll collection

06.30.15 Artscope Magazine: The British Museum Dazzles at Museum of Russian Icons

06.27.15 Boston Globe: The ticket: art, Top Pick by Sebastian Smee

06.07.15 Boston Globe: The ticket: art, Top Pick by Sebastian Smee

05.14.15 Worcester Magazine: From ancient Byzantium to Clinton

05.09.15 Worcester Telegram: Tahanto students explore new exhibit from British Museum

05.06.15 Metrowest Daily News: Russian stories, artifacts reincarnated en route to Clinton

05.03.15 Worcester Telegram: Icons from British Museum on view in Clinton

05.02.15 Russia Beyond the Headlines: Byzantium to Russia: Origins and Development of Russian Icons, 1200 to 1900

04.11.15 Boston Globe: Two major exhibitions at Museum of Russian Icons

03.15.15 Lowell Sun: Weekend Lectures

03.11.15 Crux-Covering all things Catholic: Praying with icons

03.01.15 Tewksbury Town Crier: Russian Treasures

02.01.15 Metrowest Daily News: EXHIBIT: Ethiopian icons reveal ancient Christian culture

02.01.15 Metrowest Daily News: VIDEO: Ethiopian art at Russian Icons Museum

01.26.15 Worcester Telegram: Russian icon museum showcases Ethiopian art

01.29.15 Johnny Appleseed Country feature: Ethiopian Exhibit at the Museum of Russian Icons

01.23.15 The Item: New exhibit explores Ethiopian icons

01.22.15 Worcester Telegram: Ethiopian icon exhibit in Clinton

01.18.15 Mass Vacation Blog: The One-of-a-Kind Museum of Russian Icons

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