When Zainul Abedin left Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1947, as India and Pakistan negotiated a partition-ridden freedom from the ...

S ocialist Realism was the official artistic ideology proclaimed in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. It rejected experimentations with non-objective painting and criticized intellectual art that was ...

Compared with earlier Soviet productions set to Aram Khachaturian ... To conform to political strictures around art — under Socialist Realism, abstraction was to be avoided — drambalet ...

A political scientist – with a penchant for gaming – explains how Minecraft, League of Legends and Civilization VII can help ...

Schroeder, Putin meet in Germany; Banks impose financial dictatorship on New York City; First two of Hollywood Ten go to ...

The photojournalist documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never, I never, ...

The first centre of Shenzhen was Luohu, a cluster of towers and bootleg retail outlets crammed hard up against the Hong ...

A total of 22 films are competing for the top prize at this year's Cannes film festival, which wraps up on Saturday ...

One of the oldest film festivals in the world, and the most prestigious such festival in Eastern and Central Europe, the ...

A total of 22 films are competing for the top prize at at this year's Cannes film festival, which wraps up on Saturday.

Matthew Rozsa pens an in-depth retrospective on the career of Kevin Greutert, one of the integral minds in shaping the 'Saw' ...