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Abramovich’s girlfriend opens major Moscow art gallery

The celebrity girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich on Tuesday opened a major new Moscow art gallery billed as Russia’s answer to London’s Tate Modern and New York’s MoMA.  cavernous former bus depot in northern Moscow, the Garage gallery is “the first non-profit arts centre on this scale” in Russia, Daria Zhukova said at the champagne launch party, which was also attended by her reclusive boyfriend.With gallery space measuring 8,500 square metres (91,490 square feet), Garage was built by avant-garde Russian architect Konstantin Melnikov in the 1920s and is considered a Constructivist masterpiece.

Zhukova was also joined at the launch by New York-based Russian artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, whose work was featured in the opening exhibition.

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