The artist Dmitri Vrubel has started a blog at LiveJournal (in Russian), and at the time of writing he's posting energetically. Vrubel created the famous mural on the Berlin Wall that shows a kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Eric Honecker (this work also exists in oil-on-canvas).
Vrubel's blog is another contribution to the expanding LiveJournal tusa (scene/party) that already features leading galerists, artists, critics and art historians.
We interrupt this post for a message to a scholar of the future:
"As someone who has trawled through the tomes in the Lenin Library and elsewhere while researching my books, and who has felt the particular scholarly anguish of having to leave unread potentially useful material because of time constraints, I sympathise with YOU, the art historian of the future, currently reading the IZO archive, because you have the impossible task of wading through the exploding amount of material available by and about today's artists."
What actually will be the result for art history of this unencompassable quantity of documentation? Perhaps we will get used to multiple competing histories of the the same artists, shows, periods, each history based on the analysis of completely different material.
