Hello to all Russian Avant-garde Gallery visitors and subscribers. Another month has passed and there are some updates to make.

Another Upgrade For The Website Look And Feel

As you will immediately see in your next visit to the Russian Avant-garde Gallery, I have made one more upgrade to the site look and feel, for your convenience and ease of use.

The lists of names in each movement/group begins to be rather long, which makes browsing a little difficult because of the very long menu at left. The visitors must scroll a lot up and down, if they want to get to another movement or category.

I have changed the Navigation style to a more dynamic one, where the main menu is seen all the time, but the individual lists of artists (or sub-pages of a section) open as the mouse hovers over the relevant movement (or section). The menu folds back gently, allowing time to decide or change your mind, not to quickly.

A request: if you find any broken links, typos or other mistakes - please send me feedback and I shall fix it at once.

Search Engine Added

I have added a search feature at the top left corner of each page. Search results will open a separate page, without interfering with your browsing at the Russian Avant-garde Gallery.

You may search the whole web or just this website.

News Scroller Added

A News scrolling line is added to the top of every page, with the exception of the Home page. This line will always announce headlines of the most current News on site.

Change Of Home Page

A small scrolling section in the left half of the Home page has replaced the text that was there before, allowing to show the latest News and any announcement required there, in a smaller and more attractive space, all but eliminating the need to scroll the page.

The Newsletter subscription form now takes up the other half of the Home page.

New Additions to UNOVIS Group

As promised, and continuing the work in April, three more artists were added to the UNOVIS group this month:

• David Yakerson - 17 works;
• Natalia Ivanova - 2 works;
• Serghey Senkin - 3 works.

I plan to add a new movement and several new artists in the following month, so stay tuned.

Tatiana Kofyan's Section Redesigned

As I have shared with you in the previous issue, preparing my mother's personal pages got me thinking about changing their structure. I felt the arrangement was not as friendly as it should be.

Therefore I have broken this section into sub-pages, interacting with each other by means of links throughout the pages.

Some of the sub-pages are already functional, others are at "planned" stage, and you will not find them there yet. I have broken the works into the following categories:

• Main Section Page - About the Site Creator - with biography and acknowledgments;
• Paintings - separated into Watercolors, Oils and Early Work (the last still planned);
• Graphic Work - planned;
• Illustrations - including books and other projects; every project that has above 20 individual illustrations will have a separate page opening from the relevant thumbnail at Illustrations page or the relevant picture in the picture show;
• Exact Drawing - planned;
• Photography - planned;
• Family Pictures - planned.

We'll see how it goes. Feedback is, of course, welcome, as always.

Announcement will be made in the Newsletters as new pages appear.

Newsletter Archive

I have separated the links to previous Newsletters and Announcements into an Archive Page in the newly created What's New section. They were cluttering up space on the What's New page and confusing, I felt.

The new section includes:

• Main Section Page - What's New - with all the changes detailed, without the clutter;
• Read Latest Newsletter Online page - just that, links to the latest issue;
• Newsletter Archive - links and subtitles of previous issues and earlier announcements;
• List of Artists;
• Bibliography - which is going to be under changes for some time, so is uploaded as is now.

I hope this simplifies seeing the changes made.

Reminder: Refresh Your Pages

I would like to remind everybody to occasionally refresh the pages, due to the constant changes and additions on the website. This will ensure that you always see the latest version of the pages, and not the page cached (stored) on your computer from the last visit.

If you do not know how to do this - you can see instructions in the first issue of the newsletter, at the archive (the What's New page). Or see your web browser help section.

Vera Kofyan