Vladimir Putin goes up in flames at a new Pussy Riot show.

Pussy Riot / Credit: UCLA

If I lived on the West Coast, I might don a balaclava and head this week for Los Angeles. On Jan. 27, the Jeffrey Deitch gallery will host the opening of the first solo show by Nadya Tolokonnikova, co-founder of Pussy Riot, a group that’s part band, part anti-Putin movement, and part conceptual art spectacle.

Tolokonnikova and bandmate Maria “Masha” Alyokhina spent two years in Russian penal colonies…

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Janice Harayda

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.