Many contemporary artists marry art and politics in pursuit of a social agenda or to expose a political peculiarity. But in Russia ... party on a Moscow subway train, performed public sex acts ...

She also influenced the Art Deco movement. “A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde,” is on view at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, from December 4 ...

A major retrospective of Art Deco darling Tamara de Lempicka (1898 ... Born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1898, Lempicka survived the Russian Revolution and relocated to Paris, where her bold, stylized ...