PhD in Art History
Education:
Department of Art History, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University (1986–1991).
Postgraduate studies at the State Institute of Art Studies (1991–1994).
Department of Art History, Central European University, Prague (1993).
PhD thesis:
John Soane and the Architectural Ideas of European Neoclassicism (1997)
Research interests:
Art and architecture of the 18th — first half of the 19th centuries, art and art history of the 20th century
Professional service:
Editor-in-chief of the magazine Iskusstvoznanie.
Member of the Moscow Union of Artists, since 1996.
Honorary titles and awards:
The Artnewspaper Russia Award – 2013 in the “Book of the Year” nomination (for the book “Russian Artists at the Venice Biennale, 1895–2013”).
Nominee of the Innovation Award (2013, 2018).
Teaching activity:
Academic supervision of graduate students in the training program 5.10.3. “Types of art (Fine and decorative arts and architecture)”
Advanced training / retraining: “Organization of research work of students and postgraduates at an art university” (72 hours) 2024
Academic publications (12 in total, including 1 monograph):
Monographs:
- David Arkin: “The Ideologist of Cosmopolitanism” in Architecture. Moscow, Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie Publ., 2023. 472 p.
Collective works (editor):
- Archive of N.I. Khardzhiev. Russian Avant-garde: Materials and Documents from the Collection of RGALI: in 3 volumes. Moscow, DEFI Publ., 2017–2019.
- Proceedings of the Institute of Problems of Modern Art. Moscow, Institute of Problems of Modern Art Publ., 2013. Vol. I.
- Proceedings of the Institute of Problems of Modern Art. Moscow, Institute of Problems of Modern Art Publ., 2015. Vol. II.
- Proceedings of the Institute of Problems of Modern Art. Moscow, Institute of Problems of Modern Art Publ., 2017. Vol. III.
- Russian Artists at the Venice Biennale, 1895–2013, auth. and. comp. by N.Y. Molok. Moscow, Stella Art Foundation, 2013. 766 p.: ill., color. ill.
Articles:
- Ledoux in Dr. “Tornatori”'s Office. About Some Sources of “Talking Architecture.” Iskusstvoznanie, no. 1, 2025, pp. 120–149.
- From Le Corbusier to Ledoux: David Arkin Reads Emil Kaufman. Russian Art Studies Among European Schools: Intellectual History and Migration of Ideas (Matetials of the IV Sarabyanov International Congress of Art Historians). Moscow, State Institute of Art Studies Publ., 2025, pp. 167–206.
- “Probing” Joseph Rykwert. Iskusstvoznanie, no. 2, 2024, pp. 18–45.
- Joseph Rykwert. My First Acquaintance with Hermeneutics, trans. and annotated by N.Y. Molok]. Iskusstvoznanie, no. 2, 2024, pp. 10–17.
- Inside Piranesi's Head: “The Dream of Reason” and “the Art of Fantasy.” Iskusstvoznanie, no. 3, 2022, pp. 182–215.
- Lieux à soupape. About One (Technical) Illustration from a Treatise by J.F. Blondel. Fabrica mundi. Illustrating Scientific Ideas in the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Materials of Academic Conference, ed. by A.A. Baidova, E.A. Efimova, M.A. Lopukhova, ex. ed. E.A. Efimova. Moscow, Publishing House “Universitet”, 2022, pp. 288–306 (Series “Proceedings of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University”. Issue 211. Series II: Historical research, 142). https://doi.org/10.31453/kdu.ru.978-5-7913-1250-1-2022-342
- The Ideologist of “Cosmopolitanism”: D.E. Arkin and the “Purges” in the Soviet Architectural Environment in the 1930s and 1940s. Russian Art Studies Among European Schools: Archival Materials from Museum and Library Collections. Moscow, State Institute of Art Studies Publ., 2022, pp. 112–242.
- The Triumph of Virtue: From the “Secret Chamber” to the “Secret Museum.” The Boundaries of the Norm: The Transformation of Humanism in Russian and European Culture of Modern and Contemporary Times (Materials of the III Sarabyanov International Congress of Art Historians). Moscow, State Institute of Art Studies Publ., 2021, pp. 148–170.
