Joseph Stalin was no great lover of the arts, unlike other Communist leaders, but he recognised their power to stir his people’s souls in the pursuit of his political goals. Stalin and the writer ...

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 ...

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 Ukrainian Jewish painter Felix Lembersky (1913-70), whose works are currently on view through December 23 at the Rubin-Frankel Gallery at Boston University, offers ideas and issues to contemporary ...

Socialist realism: the state as the author -- Avant-garde and kitsch -- Alienation as a status: Ilya Kabakov and the Collective Actions Group -- Sots art: the Russian deconstructive force -- Aptart: ...

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 ...

The term "Soviet Realism" conjures up images of workers and farmers nobly engaged in their labors—inflated to mythical status—and depicted in a kind of debased academic style. Produced at a time when ...