TOWARD the end of the tenth century, the envoys of Vladimir, Great Prince of Kiev, were led by the emperor himself into the cathedral at Byzantium. They heard gravely chanting voices and saw the ...

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Last summer, a staffer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was digging through stacks of 19th century drawings when they stumbled upon something strange. It was a nondescript box with the vague label ...

When I first visited Tbilisi, Georgia, in winter 2018, I was taken to meet Lika Kacharava, and in her small apartment we drank local natural wine, ate homemade fare, and viewed many paintings, ...

There are pieces in the new exhibition at the Columbia Museum of Art you were never supposed to see. That is, if the former Soviet Union had its way. The display is called “The Ironic Curtain: Art ...

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The foundations of Russian socialist realism were provided by Nicholai G. Chernyshevsky (1828 - 1889), translator and critical commentator of John Stuart Mills’ Principles of Political Economy. An ...

The Smart Museum of Art’s exhibit Vision and Communism is many things —political, ideological, and structured—but restrained, it is not. Composed of posters, photographs, and rough sketches, the ...

CODY, Wyo. — For a town of 10,000 people, this small Wyoming community claims its share of artists and fine galleries of Western art. It knows painters who depict realistic scenes of colored aspen and ...

The rebellious artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid founded their own artistic movement. They agreed to their first interview together in 20 years. By Sophia Kishkovsky This article is part of ...

As Russian president Vladimir Putin tried to justify his war in Ukraine during his speech this morning for Victory Day, the dissident artist Andrei Molodkin is trying to make sure that the anniversary ...