The grand opening of 'Garage', Moscow Center for Contemporary Culture, was surrounded with rumors. The main reason was not the fact we are "oh-so-in-love" with contemporary art, but the personality of the center’s founder – the holy icon of all fashion magazines: 27-year old Dasha Zhukova - well-known as Roman Abramovich’ girlfriend.

We were all dying to come to the launch-party, but honestly it wasn’t to see the exhibition or share a table with the celebs, but to dance at the Amy Winehouse concert – a private show, which according to rumors here in Moscow costed $2 billions.

Now some time has passed and much of the buzz is forgotten, so isn’t it the right moment to come and finally see Dasha Zhukova’s art center - the first of its kind in Moscow - to find out if it really is worth all the hype?

The building itself impressed and amazed me. This former bus depot is a fine specimen of Soviet avant-garde (built in 1927) with all its red and white colors and sharp shapes. Inside you don’t feel like you are in a building that is nearly 100 years old but like in a newly-built house – and the space is huge, huge, huge! So big that I actually forgot about the art pieces and just gazed on the ceiling all in iron carcass and on the brick walls.

About the exhibition – they have promised to change it 4 times a year, though not as often if they only show one artist’s collection (as it goes now with Ilia and Emilia Kabakovu). I would like to come here more often especially now when they have opened a wonderful bookshop with great photo- and art-albums. In the future Garage will also organize lectures and film shows.

It would also be great if Garage’s web-site can be more informative and interactive – or maybe the costs of the Amy Winehouse show blew up their budget? I doubt it!

GARAGE; Obraztsova street, 19 A; Moscow