PARIS — On June 21, Paris's Palais de Tokyo will launch its new series "Alerte" ("Alarm"), with a show titled "The Case of the Pussy Riot Artists," organized by Russian curator Andrei Erofeev. The exhibition will include two comic strips, a documentary film, and a video of a Pussy Riot performance. The series seeks to highlight "hot topic in the news," and the all-female punk collective is certainly in a heated situation at the moment, with three of its members —Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina, and Ekaterina Samutsevich — currently jailed in Russia on charges of hooliganism and blasphemy after a controversial performance in March.
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