The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for poetry ...

Chen Yifei was a Chinese painter known for his realistic portraits, landscapes, and interiors. Born on April 12, 1946 in Ningbo, China, he studied at the Shanghai College of Art, where he learned to ...

Her work notably draws from both the imagery of ancient Chinese art, as well as the Chinese Socialist Realist style of painting in which she was originally trained. She received extensive honors and ...

For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...

When we look at Socialist Realist images today, in the 21st century, each of us having different social experiences and political sympathies, we ask ourselves many questions.

When we look at Socialist Realist images today, in the 21st century, each of us having different social experiences and political sympathies, we ask ourselves many questions.

Unlike the ornate and hulking socialist-realist Palace, which upon its completion in 1955 was the eighth tallest building in the world, MSN Warsaw is the architectural equivalent of a clean slate.

A translation of Chapotout's article for Le Monde Diplomatique detailing the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.

Gustave Courbet with his famous painting 'Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine (été)' is the French guest at the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, visiting from the Petit Palais, Musée ...

Painting to Scale, the latest exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, boasts rarely shown, ...