October 1917

The "October Revolution" was celebrated by many art museums in Switzerland this year. The Swiss National Museum of Anthropology in Zurich has a huge exhibition that had a history focus. Of course Lenin lived in Switzerland before returning to Russia. 

It still does not really explain why so many great exhibitions were organised by great Swiss museums (and so few American!). The amazing Paul Klee Museum in Bern filled their main exhibition space with radically abstract paintings and sculptures centered of artists who part of the Revolution, along with related art from the next 40 years (up to Donald Judd!).