From the introduction to the catalogue of Art4.ru, a contemporary-art museum in Moscow owned by Igor Markin. The museum, in which Markin, a forty-one-year-old plastics magnate, invested $10 million, houses hundreds of works by modern and contemporary Russian artists.

If anybody thinks he can draw a square better than Malevich, he can come on and fucking do it. Don’t worry if people underestimate you—it’s not because you’re an asshole, but just because there are losers and assholes all around who will not live to see winter. Why should you worry about winter if you permanently live in summer, have…