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 ...

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 ...

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.

Art On Frida Kahlo's Birthday, Check Out Her "Self-Portrait with Stalin" This is a reminder that creative geniuses are often unbelievably stupid and useless when it comes to politics and morality.

SALEM: Former CM M Karunanidhi’s statue near Anna Park on Four Road Junction at Salem was defaced by a miscreant by pouring ...

Art world news for October 19, 2016.Check out the massive trove of modernist painting that Stalin shut down in 1948. The works, assembled by Sergei Shchukin, are now on view in Paris. Yes, this is ...

Trolling through the vast art collections of the Hermitage Museum, a staggering czarist accumulation that had been nationalized by the Russian revolution, Stalin consummated plans to sell ...

Socialist Realism, the officially enforced style of art under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, is undergoing a revival in Russia.

Stalin’s trophy brigades shipped more than 2.5 million art objects from eastern Germany to the Soviet Union after the war.

Richard G. Pumphrey, a professor of art at Lynchburg College, in Virginia, spent about a year sculpting the former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. When he was finished, the bronze bust took its ...