Select Publications

  • Expert Committee, Artists of Modern Kazakhstan, Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Republic of Kazakhtsan, Kazakhstan 2018

  • “At the Crossroads of Asia and Europe,” Sonya Bekkerman and Marina Kovalyov, 16th Annual Russian Heritage Month, NY Post, A5, 2018

  • “World Through Culture,” Sonya Bekkerman and Marina Kovalyov, 15th Annual Russian Heritage Month, NY Post, 2017

  • “Androgyny” Sergei Isupov Solo Exhibition, Mesa Contmporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, 2009

  • “Cooking in Provence and Kia: A Layman’s Journey Through Two Cooking Schools,” Ogoniok Magazine, 2007

  • “Treasures and Money,” Ogoniok Magazine, no. 39, September 26-October 2, 2005

  • “Hot and Upcoming: The Rise of Russian Art,” Virtual Exhibition, Artnet.com, 2005

  • “Sotheby’s: Where Russian Art Triumphs,” The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine, no. 4, 2005

  • “Café Society,” Sotheby’s Preview Magazine, vol. 15, no. 2, April 2002

  • “Tolstoy’s Taboo,” Sotheby’s Preview Magazine, vol. 15, no. 2, April 2002

  • “Michael Larionov: Still-Life with Crayfish,” Gastronomica, vol. 2, no. 4, 2002

  • “The Orient, Real & Imagined,” Sotheby’s Preview Magazine, vol. 14, no. 3, 2001

  • “Visual Pleasures,” Sotheby’s Preview Magazine, vol. 14, no. 5, 2001

  • “A Growing Impression,” Sotheby’s Preview Magazine, vol. 14, no. 5, 2001

  • “Boris Anisfeld,” Palace Editions, 2001

  • “Natalia Goncharova and Olga Rozanova,” The World Opened Wide: 20th Century Russian Women Artists From The Collection of Thomas P. Whitney ’37, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 2001

  • “Fred Wilson,” Kunstwelten im Dialog, Ludwig Museum, Germany 1999

Select Presentations and Lectures

  • “Kazakh-American Relations in the 21st Century: A Cultural Dialogue,” The Somar Group LLC., The National Arts Club, June 20, 2018

  • “Tondo Art App Tech Talk,” The Brownstone, June 2016

  • “Tondo and the Digital Art World,” The Art Business Conference, London, September 2015

  • “Russian Contemporary Art on the Market,” Guest Speaker, Mimi Fertz Gallery, New York, 2008

  • “William Bouguereau and the 19th Century European Art in Context,” Bruce Museum, CT, 2004

Education

  • Middlebury College School of Hebrew, Middlebury, VT. 3 week language immersion, Summer 2017

  • Brandeis University-Middlebury College School of Hebrew, Middlebury, VT. 7 week language immersion, Summer 2009

  • Middlebury College School of German, Middlebury, VT. 7 week language immersion, Summer 1999

  • William College, Massachusetts, M.A. in Art History, 1999. Thesis: Lulu in Weimar: George Pabst and Weimar Film

  • Sotheby’s Institute, New York. Master’s Degree Program in American Fine and Decorative Art, 1995-1996. Thesis: Maurice Prendergast and the American Watercolor

  • Queens College, New York, B.A. in Art History with Honors, Minor in Business 1995