Global Art and the Cold War, by John J. Curley (image courtesy Laurence King Publishing Ltd) It’s easy to characterize twentieth-century Cold War history as simply two master narratives pitted against ...

For 50 years, an American economics professor collected dissident art from the Soviet Union. The abstract art pieces, considered nonconformist by the Soviets, have been donated to Rutgers University.

“Victory over the Sun, Russian Avant-Garde and Beyond” at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, installation view (all images courtesy the Israel Museum, Jerusalem) JERUSALEM — Revolutionary art, it is often ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. This article is more than 4 years old. To fight the Cold War, ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Vladimir Lysenko’s painted bull stares with flat black eyes like a double-barrel shotgun, one of his horns festooned in a mosaic of bright rectangles, the tip of his tail stretched ...

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 ...

Barnaby Haran receives funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art. There are two exhibitions on at London’s Royal Academy, each presenting a contrasting perspective on the visual expressions ...

Jordan Peterson has explained the "comical" reasoning why he decided to cover the walls of his home with Soviet art. While appearing on the The Glenn Beck Program podcast, which aired Saturday, the ...