The dynamic art scene in the Baltic region is humming with activity this fall season. Here is what to look out for.

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 ...

and with its explicit “proletarian” theme already indicates the pressures to adapt to Socialist Realism. Alexander Bogomazov, Sharpening the Saws, 1927, National Art Museum of Ukraine [Photo ...

After 1949, when the Communist Party adopted Socialist Realism as the official style of the country, Pan’s traditional beliefs became not only unpopular but dangerous. When the Cultural Revolution ...

How descendants of an underground, non-conformist photography movement—founded in Kharkiv in the 1970s—continue to capture ...

It is in this class of politicians that Comrade Sitaram Yechury has made a tremendous contribution with his arguments and narrative. His departure and leaving the mortal frame has created a void in ...

In the Eye of the Storm conveys how Ukraine came to be a thriving center of avant-garde art in the early decades of the 20th century.

There has been an uprising in Bangladesh. There are many who would like to see it as a change of government, with the ...

D.C. artist Mark Kelner’s meticulous text paintings of roadside signs are a window into the country’s socioeconomic life.

Whereas Butler had befriended the likes of socialist-realist writer Leonid Leonov ... and traditionalist with a strong hatred of abstract art and Western ideas. As current chair of Russia ...

From 1934 until well into the 1960s, the spiritual extreme dominated the USSR’s official theory of art: although deeply conservative and faith-based, the doctrine of Socialist Realism played a radical ...

The Bulgarian capital is truly at the meeting point of world cultures, and the Sofia Philharmonic offers a heady mix of the ...