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 ...

Alexandra Kharitonova, art historian and curator of the Tretyakov Gallery exhibition, "Socialist Realism. Metamorphoses. Soviet Art of 1927-1987", has chosen 10 Soviet artists who thrived in the ...

Ilya Dzhirkvelov is a former deputy general secretary of the Soviet Union of Journalists, a former Tass editor and Soviet foreign correspondent, and a one-time KGB agent who specialized in recruiting ...

IN THE 1930s there was a picture-generating machine producing a standardised kind of art called Soviet Realism. The machine's job was to tell the masses about the future. Things are getting better and ...

Although Kyrgyzstan has renamed the museum in Bishkek's Ala-Too Square the National Historical Museum and filled it with exhibits documenting the country's natural and political history, many still ...

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 ...

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 ...

Soviet art was intended to serve the ideological ideals of communism, and many artists obliged. We selected 10 works that were used to instruct people in how to live properly and love the Motherland.