The Museum of the Imagination, 217 Warren St., Hudson, opened its new exhibition, Monsters in Art, on October 2, 2004, during Hudson’s annual festival “ArtsWalk”.

Monsters in Art traces the history of monsters, real and mythical, in human culture from ancient times to the current time. Monsters have appeared in art as metaphors for human failings, as symbols both of crimes against Nature and of the cruelty of Nature, as well as simply for shock value.

As in the Museum’s previous exhibitions “Spheres”, “The Reaper” and “The Hand,” the Warren St. space is divided into two sections, one filled with original works and artifacts, the other showing images from Mihail Chemiakin’s research into the subject.

The exhibit includes original works by V. Zimakov, A. Zakharov, V. Trubchanikov, J. Taylor, F. Regnault, G. Parfeniouk, V. Ovchinnikov, D. Lvov, A. Lvov, O. Liagatchev (Helgi), G. Kepinski, T. DiCintio, M. Chemiakin, D. Chemiakine, E. Boev , F. Bocchi.

The themes of all four Museum of the Imagination exhibitions have been the subject of television documentaries in the series “Mihail Chemiakin’s Imaginary Museum”, produced for Russia’s “Kultura” channel and broadcast nationally in Russia in 2002 - 2003.