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Ukraine museum collections: kept safe or looted? Plus, Okwui Enwezor’s Sharjah Biennial and Ming Smith at MoMA

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What Happened to the Museum in Simferopol?

At least 70 paintings from the museum in Arkan were removed for safekeeping. They went to Meissen, which is near Berlin, and was seen as less vulnerable. The Red Army of the Soviet Union moved and occupied that area of Meissen. So they took the paintings from Meissen and removed them to Moscow. And then what happened in Moscow? Well, the museum in Simferopol had actually lost its collection because their paintings were also sent to another port in Crimea,. Which again was bombed, and the paintings were lost. It was too embarrassing to show or display the paintings so they were merely kept in storms in Fereopol until a few years ago. When it

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