When Art Joined the Russian Revolution A Chicago exhibition showcases posters, furniture, cookie boxes—and a lot more Aleksandr Rodchenko’s prototype workers club, re-created in the Chicago ...

Against Type: Russian Print Artist Makes Posters For Peace. ... printer Sergei Besov was part of a burgeoning art scene centred around in a converted factory in northern Moscow.

About 22 years ago, he began collecting Russian art, specifically from 1935-85, during the Cold War, a period in which he said art was controlled by the state.

A year into the war, institutions face pressure to note the Ukrainian roots of artworks and artists long described as Russian. It’s not always simple to write a wall label.

4 A peace dove created by Ovchinnikov adorns a wall in Borovsk. Unperturbed, Ovchinnikov painted a new piece where the Ukrainian girl once was, writing the word "bezumiye" ("craziness" in Russian ...