Akinsha, Konstantin: - Konstantin Akinsha is an art historian and curator. He has been a contributing editor for ARTnews magazine, New York. Among his numerous journalistic awards is the George Polk Award for cultural reporting (1991). From 1998 to 2000 he served as a deputy director of the Art section in the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US. Among exhibitions curated by him are "Silver Age: Russian Art in Vienna around 1900" (Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, 2014), "Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907-1917" (Neue Galerie, New York, 2015), and "Permanent Revolution. Ukrainian Art Today" (Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2018). He is a founding director of the Avant-Garde Art Research Project (UK) and the author of a number of books, including Beautiful Loot.