Vagrich Bakhchanyan, ‘Accidental Absurdity,’ installation view (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Art exhibitions, like literary works, come in different genres. Some resemble ...

Within the field of Russian religious art, Russian icons hold a singular place within the country’s art historical traditions. First emerging in the 11th century, despite their significance they have ...

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 ...

Abstract works created by the Russian artist Oleg Prokofiev in defiance of Soviet censorship in the 1950s—and presumed lost ...

VOICES OF OCTOBER—Art and Literature in Soviet Russia—Joseph Freeman, Joshua Kunitz, Louis Lozowick—Vanguard ($4). A glance at the bibliography of 67 books appended to this volume will indicate how ...

If great collectors are distinguished by their ability to shape our understanding of art history, then George Costakis (1913-90) must surely rank among one of the greatest. Born in Moscow to Greek ...

In 1967, in the course of a visit to Moscow, I was entertained one evening in the apartment of a young man who seemed to know a lot about the life of art in the Soviet Union at that time. He may also ...

For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work was shown outside the Soviet Union. Erik Bulatov in 2018. “I think that the ...

On “The Utopian Avant-Garde: Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s” at Poster House, New York and “Thornton Willis: A Painting Survey, Six Decades, 1967–2017” at David Richard Gallery, Chelsea and Harlem, ...

“We are glad that the forces of the heroic Soviet army saved these invaluable treasures from ruin,” trumpeted Soviet Deputy Minister of Culture Kaftanov at a full-dress ceremony in Moscow’s Pushkin ...