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

The incredible story of how America's CIA used the art of Abstract Expressionism as a weapon during its Cold War fight ...

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

The paintings depicted an era of socialist realism in Ukraine, during which art had to be state-sanctioned ... capture their true perspectives on the Soviet regime, according to the exhibit ...

A series from 1999 making fun of the tropes of patriotic American art the way they had with “Nostalgic Socialist Realism” doesn’t really land. Meanwhile, once the end of the Soviet Union ...

rose to prominence in the early 1970s with her unique interpretation of Soviet realism that rattled the establishment. She was the rare towering woman figure in an art scene dominated by men such ...

By the late 1980s, Socialist Realism was in crisis ... journalism, and art turned to portraying the dark sides of Soviet life. Known colloquially as chernukha, from the Russian word for ...

Artists were forced to abandon the early abstract style in favour of Stalin’s more straightforward socialist realism after ... she says. Soviet poster art strongly influenced the artistic ...

Alexandra Kharitonova, art historian and curator of the Tretyakov Gallery exhibition, "Socialist Realism. Metamorphoses. Soviet Art of 1927-1987", has chosen 10 Soviet artists who thrived in the ...

There would be no individualism in Soviet art. The process of eliminating formalist, bohemian-bourgeois, individualist artists from Soviet life was slow, and socialist realism only solidified as ...