Opening with artist Yevgeniy Fiks and guest curator Stamatina Gregory.

Taking its title from a 1952 quote by former Michigan Congressman George A. Dondero—best known for his widely publicized claims that modern art was a Communist plot hatched to bring down the US—this exhibition explores the historical ties between modern art and twentieth-century communist movements. Comprising prints, drawings, sculpture, and reenacted speeches, Fiks’ installation imagines an artistic trajectory located between fact and fiction, between accusations from Washington and directives from Moscow, posing questions on the fundamental relationship between Communism and Modernism. "Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums" was curated by Stamatina Gregory and is on view at Temple Gallery from September 8 through November 6, 2010. Learn more at www.temple.edu/tyler/exhibitions.