By 1934 Stalin had taken personal control of Soviet cultural life. After writer Maxim Gorky delivered a speech declaring “Socialist Realism” to be the only morally acceptable art form, Stalin ...

Socialist Realism, the officially enforced style of art under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, is undergoing a revival in Russia — and the Russian Orthodox Church is playing a key supporting role.

Unearthed from deep within a storage space at the Art Institute's prints and drawings department 10 years ago, the posters reveal some remarkable technical innovations.

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday inaugurated a painting exhibition highlighting the State government’s achievements in the last year and an archeological exhibition throwing light on the ...

In 1933 saucer-eyed Diego Rivera brought down Rockefeller wrath on his mop-haired pate by giving a place of honor in his Rockefeller Center mural to Lenin. Last week a similar rumpus flurried up ...

Stalin was practically unknown till 1923-24. Today the same nails which used to support Trotsky's portrait now support Stalin's. Very often now you see him pictured together with Lenin -- Stalin ...

Only five of the 33 directors of major museums in the U.S. are women. How can we fix that? (New York Times) Check out the massive trove of modernist painting that Stalin shut down in 1948. The ...

Georgia returns still life painting looted by Stalin's Trophy Commission . ... Stalin’s trophy brigades shipped more than 2.5 million art objects from eastern Germany to the Soviet Union after ...