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Under the banner 鈥淚n Solidarity,鈥 Manhattan鈥檚 Museum of Modern Art has dedicated a collection gallery to works by artists born in present-day Ukraine.

The gallery on MoMA鈥檚 fifth floor in late March, highlighting pieces in multiple mediums from artists of varying backgrounds, including the renowned New York street photographer Weegee, aka Arthur Fellig, born in what was then Austria-Hungary (later Poland, and eventually Ukraine); the avant-garde Russian painter Kazimir Malevich, born in Kyiv; and the Russian sculptor Louise Nevelson, known for her monochromatic wood installations, also born in Kyiv.

In a region where international borders shift with the political winds, it鈥檚 no surprise that many of the artists featured have Russian, Soviet, and Polish roots. But you won鈥檛 find those origins noted in the display copy 鈥 a conscious decision on the part of the curatorial team. 鈥淣ationality, which so happens to be where a person鈥檚 passport is, doesn鈥檛 given the full picture,鈥 MoMA鈥檚 chief curator of painting and sculpture, Ann Temkin, .

A gallery with Louise Nevelson's That Silent Place hanging next to Kazimir Malevich's Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying.
Installation view of the gallery <em>In Solidarity </em>(Gallery 507). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Digital Image 漏 2022 MoMA, N.Y. Photo by Robert Gerhardt

As the gallery鈥檚 wall text explains, some of the featured artists grew up in Kyiv; others wound up in creative hubs like Paris, Berlin, Moscow and 鈥 particularly those of Jewish descent seeking refuge from persecution 鈥 New York. But they were all brought together here 鈥渁s a statement of solidarity with, and in tribute to, the people of Ukraine.鈥

Since the Russian attack, museums from Lviv to Kharkiv to Kyiv have been working to secure their treasures, hastily taking down exhibitions and moving art and artifacts to safety, be it in underground bomb shelters or safe hands overseas.

At the literary museum in Kharkiv, director Tanya Pylypchuk , 鈥渢he most valuable part of the collection鈥 鈥 including documentation that showed 鈥淯kraine wanted to be part of Europe, not Russia鈥 鈥 was shifted to a bunker shortly after the war began. 鈥淪uch materials were banned in the Soviet Union鈥. Modern Russia also does not accept this version of Ukrainian history.鈥

鈥淭his is a war against our history, our culture,鈥 Ihor Poshyvailo, director of Kyiv鈥檚 Maidan museum, added to Time.

On the ground, Ukrainian communities are mobilizing to protect both that heritage and their artistic future, from the concerned citizens in Lviv who the city鈥檚 centuries-old statues in plastic to the curator who to get the 鈥渦nique artwork鈥 created for this year鈥檚 Venice Biennale across the border to Poland 鈥 in the back seat of her car.

An abstract figure made from cut-and-pasted painted paper, cont茅 crayon, and colored pencil on colored paper
Alexander Archipenko, <em>Figure in Movement</em>, 1913 漏 2022 Estate of Alexander Archipenko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

And they鈥檙e not just keeping an eye on Ukrainian artifacts. Back in March, with the city under siege, employees at the Kharkiv Art Museum put themselves at risk to keep the 25,000-item collection 鈥 which boasts a not-insignificant number of pieces from Russian artists 鈥 safe from the shelling. 鈥淚t is simply irony of fate that we should be saving Russian artists, paintings by Russian artists from their own nation,鈥 the museum鈥檚 foreign art department head, Maryna Filatova, Reuters.

In the cultural sector, there鈥檚 been no shortage of outrage over the invasion, with artists of all stripes voicing their objections. Famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, for one, took to the sidewalk in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC, to perform in unpublicized protest, complete with a sign reading Zelensky Way. 鈥淭he thing I remember him saying was 鈥榚veryone has to do something,'鈥 the eagle-eyed cyclist who spotted the musician a local TV station. 鈥淚t鈥檚 meaningful for him, without an audience, to make a statement.鈥

A few days earlier in the Big Apple, a group of Ukrainian New Yorkers staged a protest at the Guggenheim, releasing hundreds of paper planes bearing anti-war messages from the top of the museum鈥檚 spiral ramp to the floor below. 鈥淲e wanted to show people what it feels like when danger comes from the sky,鈥 one of the organizers, Lika Volk, . 鈥淲e are asking the West to just do something.

Four pieces of art hanging in a museum gallery
Installation view of the gallery <em>In Solidarity</em> (Gallery 507). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Digital Image 漏 2022 MoMA, N.Y. Photo by Robert Gerhardt

While have pulled out of shows in Russia or declined future collaborations, and some of the art world鈥檚 most venerable institutions have with oligarch donors and trustees, MoMA鈥檚 In Solidarity gallery seems to be the rare artistic response from a major museum.

鈥淭here are many, many ways that one can help materially, through donations and through other means of directly contributing, but then there鈥檚 another part of you that has the desire to acknowledge the people whose lives are being forever changed, even if it鈥檚 not a way that physically or materially helps,鈥 Temkin told ARTnews.

Its permanent-collection galleries often change on a seasonal basis, but this isn鈥檛 the first time New York鈥檚 elder statesman of modern art has rearranged its fifth-floor displays for a cause. To protest President Trump鈥檚 travel ban, the museum rehung pieces from its permanent collection by artists from the majority-Muslim nations no longer welcome in the US, the New York Times in 2017.

鈥淎 number of artists in our collection suddenly couldn鈥檛 travel the way they used to and share their work and ideas,鈥 MoMA鈥檚 chief curator of drawings and prints, Christophe Cherix, at the time. 鈥淲e wanted to reaffirm that belief that art [museums] should be a place where people from all over the world can gather.鈥

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