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Baibakov Art Projects founder Maria Baibakova presided regally over the space’s second opening, a gold Fendi dress and a pair of bodyguards lending her an air of power well beyond her twenty-three years. Baibakova is not the first beautiful Russian to initiate an exhibition program with funding from her favorite billionaire. (In this case, it’s not a husband or boyfriend but her father, forty-one-year old Oleg Baibakov, who has held top management positions in mining and development companies.) But she is the youngest and, paradoxically, the most qualified. Years before Baibakov Art Projects opened last December with a show of new commissions from young Russian artists, Bai