Dmitry Popov: A Path Gathering What Is Scattered

Upward view inside a museum showing a white staircase with turned balusters and dark wooden handrail leading past framed paintings. A large colorful artwork of a haloed figure holding a banner hangs above, while additional artworks appear along the stairwell walls.

Interior staircase at the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York. Photo: M. Mobengo, March 2026

A conversation with the Curator of the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York

MURIELLE MOBENGO:

DMITRY POPOV:

Growing the Silent Oasis

Dmitry Popov:

Inner Voyage to Native America

Self-portrait by Dmitry Popov
Drawing of the Artist himself at the center of a maze. The Native American “Man in the Maze” archetype, found in basketry and Hopi silverwork, represents the journey of life, its choices and decisions. Usually in black and white, the spiral, a universal archetypal shape symbolizes what’s known and unknown, reunited in a single experience that culminates in knowledge. More on the subject in Revue R’s Myth in Motion Factsheet [link]

Dmitry Popov:

On Collecting, Living With, and Sharing the Work

Dmitry Popov:

Ordo Ab Chao
A Grand Game of the Mind

Dmitry Popov:

Harmony, Synthesis & The Non-Dual Gaze

The Banner of Peace by Nicholas Roerich: a white flag featuring a red circle enclosing three red spheres, symbolizing the unity of art, science, and spirituality within culture.

The Banner of Peace, created by Nicholas Roerich in 1930, became the emblem of the Roerich Pact, the first international treaty dedicated to the protection of cultural heritage. Courtesy of the Nicholas Roerich Museum ©

Dmitry Popov:


The Non-Dual Gaze

Dmitry Popov:

Agni Yoga and the Roerichologist

Nicholas Roerich with a sculpture student. Courtesy of the Nicholas Roerich Museum ©

Dmitry Popov:

Inertia, Fragmentation, and the Crisis of Transmission

Entrance to the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York. Photo: M. Mobengo, March 2026.

Dmitry Popov:

The Myth of Tantalus
— on resources, patronage, and the projects that still live only in the inner space of the self

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