"Ostalgia"

It's been nearly 20 years since Mikhail Gorbachev went on live TV on Christmas Day 1991 to announce that he was stepping down as premier of the Soviet Union, and that the U.S.S.R.—an entity that once presided over an empire stretching from the Pacific Ocean to Berlin, Germany—was dissolving. That breakup and its cultural reverberations take center stage in this massive NewMu survey, bringing together works of 50 artists from 20 countries that were once part of the former Soviet bloc.