Russian rebels are getting some love from the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Dreamworlds and Catastrophes (12 March-31 July) explores how artists whose work was not sanctioned by the Soviet state “responded to Cold War developments in science and technology through utopian fantasies and anxious realities”, says Ksenia Nouril, the show’s curator. US artists such as Robert Rauschenberg documented the Apollo 11 moon landing for Nasa, but Soviet photographers such as Boris Mikhailov captured the celebrations of slightly less glamorous technological advancements closer to home—like the metro system in the eastern Ukrainian town of Kharkiv.