Russia! An exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum, Las Vegas, until January 11, 2006, presenting selections from the State Hermitage Museum, ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- A new museum is out to debunk the idea that art from the Soviet Union was all propaganda with no enduring artistic merit, bringing together a trove of works by artists who ...

During the Brezhnev era the Soviet Union sanctioned only one artistic style: Socialist Realism. Paintings, sculptures and murals purveyed idealized figures heroically enduring hardships and overcoming ...

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 ...

From Soviet realism with a twist to portraits of American rap stars might seem something of a leap -- but not necessarily for Alexander Melamid. The Russian-born artist has often been interested in ...

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 ...

The year 2014 marked the return of socialist realism in the art world. That winter, Sotheby’s auction house in London held a noncommercial exhibition titled Soviet Art. Soviet Sport., which featured ...

When Dasha Zhukova, the glamorous girlfriend of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, opened her Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in a converted bus depot in Moscow last autumn, art connoisseurs ...

Rolland Golden, the acclaimed Louisiana artist whose realist paintings earned him an international following and exhibitions across the United States, Europe and the former Soviet Union, died Monday, ...