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That Statue Of Teddy Roosevelt That’s Coming Down In New York? This Russian Collector Will Buy It

VISUAL Posted: July 2, 2020 8:02 am

Andrei Filatov, a rail transport and investment magnate (who is also chairman of the Chess Federation of Russia), has offered to purchase the long-controversial statue in front of the American Museum of Natural History that depicts Theodore Roosevelt on horseback flanked by half-naked American Indian and African men on foot. He’d made a similar offer for a statue of Alexander Baranov, the Russian colonial governor of Alaska, in Sitka that activists want relocated. – The Art Newspaper

VISUAL Published: 07.01.20

Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 07.01.20

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