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 ...

To the ire of many eastern Europeans, the Bulgarian government is opening a museum of Socialist Realist art on Sept. 9, 2011 -- the anniversary of communism’s official takeover of the government in ...

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: ...

Organized for tour by International Arts & Artists, Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde is a didactic collection of 77 works, including paintings, photographs, graphics, and sculptures ...

As the United States struggled to know itself during the great depression of the late 1920s and ‘30s, Roosevelt led his New Dealers into a decade of effort to rescue America. What did this mean for ...

‘Romantic and Progressive: Stalinist Impressionism in Painting of the Baltic States in the 1940s–1950s,’ installation view (photo courtesy of Kumu Art Museum of Estonia) TALLINN, Estonia — The history ...

Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) was a deeply controversial figure. Slurred as a ‘socialist painter’ he said, “I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a Democrat and a Republican ...

Kazakh villagers sit in the dark chewing over some astounding news from the town. Someone is coming to take away their only means of survival. “It is, what do you call it, a class struggle, you see,” ...